Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...runabout, or rather the Platonic ghost of one, made of glass reinforced with wire mesh; a sailing dinghy made of sheet copper; and a trio of bright blue, toylike sailing boats, one of them toppled as by a puff in the bathtub. There are also wooden fences, sheds and nondescript little structures of a vaguely maritime sort. The boats and sheds crop up again around the walls in big, lush paintings of bay shores and creeks, giving a mirroring effect: Are these paintings of real scenes, or of boat-sculptures and mock houses in a landscape, or what...
...spots. Steinberg needs to improve his punting form to become an offensive threat. Even KICKING GAME: Placekicker Craig Saltzgaber has one of the strongest legs in the league; he is perfect on extra points, and has converted one of two field goal attempts. Punter Kevin Griffin is average. A nondescript area...
...intellectuals now. By some similar force of instinct and understanding--maybe Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer would know about this--they see and play the game several moves ahead of the moment, comprehending not only where everything is but also where everything will be. Shown a photograph of a nondescript instant on the ice, Gretzky can replace the unpictured performers here and there about the periphery and usually recall what became of them the next second. Glancing at the basketball photo in the morning paper, Bird's automatic thought, essentially a reflex, is to note approximately what time the photographer...
Vezzo's salon, which used to be a very nondescript establishment, boasts 20 red leatherette barber chairs, and the young customers wait in line seven days a week. The elaborate cuts start at only $6 for men and $8 for women. The atmosphere is, as they say, informal. "There's no etiquette here," says Vezzo. "I keep a baseball bat next to the door in case there's trouble...
...with others suspected of involvement in the "pizza connection," probably prevented a bloody New York gang war. It also brought an abrupt end to Bonventre's rapid rise. Before the police could arrest him, he abandoned his $50,000 Ferrari and drove away into the night in a nondescript blue Buick that was registered to no one important...