Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funny. This show is frowningly earnest. Wit requires a surrounding quiet in order to be heard. This show is noisy, bustling, full of motion but lacking in any discernible destination. Carroll was a master of wordplay. In this "adaptation," whatever words survive from the original are drowned in the nondescript tunes. Above all, Carroll saw the adult world through a child's eyes, that is, as a theater of the absurd. The logic of that world is seen as illogic by a child, and its arbitrary punishments are edged with psychological menace. This production contains no hint of these...
...pushes a red button marked REQUEST TRANSFER. Behind a 10-in.-thick concrete wall, a pair of claws reaches out to grasp a stainless steel container filled with pink powder, then lifts it into a furnace where it is baked at 950° F until it turns into a nondescript gray button three inches in diameter. Such a button could be worth $100,000, for the job of this robot, which goes into regular operation in a few months, is transporting reprocessed plutonium, one of the most toxic substances known to man. Until now, this dangerous task has been done...
...giant sparkler-guards are everywhere: a dozen from the U.S. Secret Service, half a dozen from Israel's Shin Bet and another half a dozen from Cartier, which is showing off the diamond as big as the Ritz. Shortly before 7, Hartman comes downstairs, dressed in typically nondescript gray tweed jacket, dark trousers and brown loafers; he does not fancy himself a clotheshorse. He is told that Steve Bell, Good Morning's Washington-based newscaster, wants to talk with him, and Hartman takes the call on the set. Bell tells him that Israeli soldiers have shot and wounded...
...useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint pen or a company button. From the president on down, nobody is too proud to wear the nondescript gray company smock or a lapel pin with the corporate emblem...
Interviews with Yasser Arafat sometimes take place at odd hours and in strange places. At 11:30 p.m on a Wednesday, Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish were driven through a maze of back streets in Beirut to a nondescript building that currently serves as headquarters for the armed of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Young men armed with AK-47s guarded his office; a portrait of Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini hung on one wall. Arafat was finishing a letter to the Ayatullah when his guests arrived. Some of the points...