Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This initial scene established both the tone and symbolism of the movie. Sophie, whom Irene hires, and who becomes the diva's personal maid as well as accompanist, is shown always in shadow, often in transit, and frequently on staircases. Indeed, her nondescript character becomes almost obtrusive in the film. Irene, by contrast, is invariably in the spotlight, observed not her elusive lover, Jacques (Samuel Labarthe). While Sophie is famished and shabbily dressed, a perpetual onlooker, Irene, the consummate actress, is adorned with smiles and the white dress she will wear in performance throughout the movie. Though the characters appears...
Last Monday, Mark not his real name walked down Mass. Ave a couple of blocks toward Central Square and entered a nondescript office in non-descript building. A smiling receptionist offered him a candy heart and some forms, labeled "Donor Application...
Stern graduated with good grades from prestigious Boston University, and has assembled an unbroken onward-and-upward resume of better and better radio jobs ever since. Limbaugh dropped out of Southeast Missouri State after a year and had a nondescript disk-jockey and p.r. career, getting fired from five jobs during his 20s and 30s. Howard met his wife in college 19 years ago, married her four years later and proudly says he has been faithful to her. Alison Stern, the very picture of the cheerful, wholesome middle-American housewife, raises their three daughters, ages 9 months to 10 years...
...court, Redstone wears nondescript suits and owns the same three- bedroom home in Newton, Massachusetts, that he and his wife Phyllis paid $42,000 for 35 years ago. He favors the less fancy Pine Brook Country Club in nearby Weston over the prestigious Longwood Cricket Club in Brookline. He spends weekdays in Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel to be near Viacom headquarters. Often rising at 5 a.m., he reads the morning papers and then works out on a treadmill while watching TV. His days last up to 18 hours. "I live modestly," Redstone says. "Possessions don't count. Achievement counts. Winning...
...insolent kitten, a whimsical promise of claws and cuddles. He is a Doberman in a nondescript suit, a deadly compound of wariness and instant reactions. Less fancifully, she's Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston, playing what she is, a pop diva crossing over to the movies, though it's unlikely that she will be up for an Oscar the first time out, as is the fictional Rachel). He's Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner), reluctantly signed on to provide security for her after death threats have been received...