Word: colorlessness
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When Brooks arrives in Phoenix to begin his film, everything goes wrong. He follows Mrs. Yeager to her gynecologist, only to learn that the doctor (Johnny Haymer) has already enjoyed TV stardom in a 60 Minutes expose of "baby slave auctions." Yeager himself proves to be the most colorless veterinarian ever recorded on film. Local eyewitness-news teams descend on the Yeagers, transforming a TV stunt into a media circus. Finally, an exasperated studio chief (played as a disembodied speaker-phone voice by real-life Studio Executive Jennings Lang) clamps down on the project. He sternly reminds Brooks that reality...
...hand to her cheek like a sprig of flowers. The four soloists on opening night (Thursday) were a study in the company's uneven strength. David Brown floundered, as though classical technique were a suit of clothes three sizes too big, while Anamarie Sarazin wandered dutifully through a colorless waltz. But dainty Stephanie Moy, who has improved noticeably over the past couple of years, darted about deft as a hummingbird. And Elaine Bauer proved once again that she is the company's best female dancer, less by her limber elegance than by the harmony of each detail. For a moment...
Anywhere in China, the banquet follows protocolar rules as rigid as those of the minuet or mah-jongg. Beside every place setting are three glasses: a big one for beer and two shot-size glasses that will briefly contain mao-tai, a colorless 160-proof liquor that could power China's first moon shot, and a red, rice-based wine that tastes like a blend of Campari and cough syrup. The beer, bitter and warm, is served immediately and may be immediately sipped. The mao-tai and the wine, however, are reserved for toasts, which soon ensue, copiously, capaciously...
WISCONSIN. Fifteen months ago, when Governor Patrick Lucey was named Ambassador to Mexico, he bequeathed to his successor, Democrat Martin Schreiber, a healthy state economy and a budget surplus projected to total $500 million by next June. To soak up the spare cash, Schreiber, a colorless career politician, proposed cutting property taxes by a modest $110 million and increasing state spending on water purification, schools and debt reduction. But Schreiber, 39, has run afoul of Proposition 13 fever, which has been skillfully exploited by his Republican opponent, Lee Sherman Dreyfus...
...anyone looking for bombshell revelations of Cabinet officers making national policy, or jealously competing for the President's ear, the minutes were a great disappointment. Written in colorless prose by Cabinet Secretary Jack Watson, they are matter-of-fact summaries of bureaucratic business that took place at Cabinet meetings between March 14, 1977, and March 13, 1978. "Those boring minutes," sighed the Washington Post in a tongue-in-cheek editorial comparing them with the secret transcripts of the Nixon Administration's private moments. "It's hard to hold back the tears of nostalgia...