Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feisty mayor of New York City, colorful and combative, immensely popular in the city he seemed to symbolize, and endorsed by the retiring Governor and most of the state's political leaders. His challenger was the man he had beaten in a mayoralty race, the principled but somewhat colorless Lieutenant Governor, who had never won an election in his own right and was being outspent 2 to 1 in the current contest. But confounding both the polls and the pols, Mario Cuomo last week convincingly beat Edward Koch in New York's Democratic gubernatorial primary...
They may also have to help out Nebraska's first-term Governor Charles Thone, 58, a colorless conservative who barely campaigned for this month's primaries and who claims this race is his last. Thone, apparently underestimating the backlash among the state's financially strapped farmers, drew only 62% of the G.O.P. vote against two challengers. Farmer Stan DeBoer, a founder of the American Agriculture Movement, captured 31% of the Republican votes, criticizing Thone for his support of Reagan's farm and economic policies. On the Democratic side, a political novice, Robert Kerrey, 38, swept...
Rallis, 62, is a colorless but competent politician who became Prime Minister in 1980, when Caramanlis moved up to the presidency. He has tried to fright en audiences with predictions of the chaos that would result from a PASOK victory...
...background to suit this vivid and strikingly visual interpretation of every Victorian novel ever written. The blacks are black and the whites white in this world of sin and expiation where the characters care deeply about the conventions they transgress. Today's world, in contrast, appears in crisp, colorless light, everything modern and vaguely jet-setty. Porsches cruise the cobbled streets and the casual clothes come from Christian Dior's rack. Lines are tossed off. It's a real world where nothing seems real...
This cold practicality sometimes made him appear colorless and without conviction. But he frequently clashed with colleagues, even with MacArthur, recording the general's "regular shouting tirades," and acidly observing that MacArthur "likes his boot lickers...