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Word: drabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Love the City is actually a concept album dedicated to the city of London, which isn’t necessarily a good thing, as the album tends to suffer from being a little too serious, over-drab, gray, and bleak, mirroring more the London weather than the more subtle sense of anything wry, cynical, cutting edge, or characteristically London-cool...

Author: By Keith R. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums: Hefner | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...bike racing fell apart after the cops broke up the first few rallying points. And now, on a hazy, rainy Sunday, Jacky and a few of the girls are back in her hut. They're smoking, almost desperately uploading as much speed as possible to ward off this drab day and this squalid place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...begin my days. In the evening, I'd take valiums or halcyons or cercines or any of a number of sedatives to help me calm down. When I stopped smoking for a few days just to see if I could, a profound depression would come over me. The drab grayness of the world would become crushing and the boredom would seem ineluctable. Nothing seemed fun. Nothing seemed worthwhile. Every book was tortuously slow. Every song was criminally banal. Every movie crawled. The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world came across as some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...bike racing fell apart after the cops broke up the first few rallying points. And now, on a hazy, rainy Sunday, Jacky and a few of the girls are back in her hut. They're smoking, almost desperately uploading as much speed as possible to ward off this drab day and this squalid place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...Dixie Lee, he produced a family of three with Grant). Instead he took the role of Frank Elgin - a has-been musical-comedy performer whom drink has crushed into pulp - in George Seaton's film of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Grace Kelly is his wife, ground down by drab devotion. William Holden is the Broadway director who wants to give him a last chance at stardom and self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

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