Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being absorbed in the Western market economy. From travel-agency offers in Frankfurt-on-the-Oder to used-car lots filled with Western automobiles in Plauen, the deutsche mark life has arrived. The changes are good and bad, sometimes even ugly, but East Germany, once Erich Honecker's drab land of barracks communism, will never be the same...
Only 120 miles north of Seoul lies another world. There, from a drab, cheerless capital, the self-proclaimed "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung presides over an Orwellian state where the radios have dials that cannot be tuned and loudspeakers broadcast propaganda 20 hours a day into every home. Such totalitarianism is fast becoming extinct everywhere else in the world, but Kim not only survives, he is virtually worshiped by his people...
...velvet. Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, French fans of tights, are emphasizing the leg. So is the hot young American designer, Isaac Mizrahi, who dismisses the '80s as a time of "boring, rote, dress-for-success looks with stock-tie blouses, flannel jackets and henny-looking long, drab skirts...
...HANDMAID'S TALE. Set in a political and sexual dictatorship of the near future, this anti-fundamentalist fable carries a heady pedigree: screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Margaret Atwood novel. But a fine cast is zombified under Volker Schlondorff's drab direction...
...tells her, needs a "strong central framework of ironic self-awareness." Published without any such carpentry, it becomes her biggest success. He hopes -- even expects -- that she will write about him, but learns to his chagrin that her next project will be about his relatives, particularly his rather drab mother. "My entire family lies gasping on the bank, waiting to be gutted and filleted," he mourns, "and turned into delicious fish-stew, while I'm tossed back into the river...