Word: colorlessness
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...minutes. Then I'll give you anything you ask for." As far as Eastland can recall, however, he never did ask F.D.R. for anything. In fact, during his early years in the Senate, Eastland, as one of his friends concedes, "spent most of his time just accumulating seniority." Colorless, closemouthed and seldom consulted by his colleagues, Eastland was just another Southern Senator who supported low tariffs, opposed organized labor, and generally went along with the Administration on foreign policy. His only noticeable personal interest was agriculture-especially cotton...
...superb portrayal of the traitor Iago, whose evil is somehow intensified by two wisps of chin whiskers. Robert Coote is an unusually funny Roderigo. Welles, with his wide-range voice, is more than competent though not ideal in the title role. Suzanne Cloutier's Desdemona emerges rather colorless, mostly because her part has been so greatly cut, including the whole Willow Song scene. In places, the synchronization of the speech sound track is imprecise. Nevertheless, the film well deserved its Cannes Festival Grand Prize. It will outrage the Shaksperian pedant; but it will reward those who can appreciate Welles' powerfully...
Once Mozart grew past the cute, kissable age, nobody paid any attention to him. The charming prodigy turned into a "pale, silent, colorless young man." Briefly under the patronage of Salzburg's archbishop, he ate with the servants; when he protested that he was not allowed to perform his music, he was thrown out bodily. His great love, Singer Aloysia Weber, preferred to marry a nonentity. "I did not know, you see," poor Aloysia would later mumble in her old age. "I only thought he was such a little...
...Fuhrer's East Prussian headquarters on July 20, 1944. Heusinger was a participant in the plot, although he did not know the bomb had been set for that time, and he was put under Nazi house arrest until war's end. Considered by some a colorless, wavering man, he has been called the "Jein [yes-no] general." But he has had Adenauer's confidence and been his top military adviser since...
...raise our kids in bamboo huts and city flats," Franklin told the delegates from 70 countries. "We are high church and low church, orthodox and unorthodox . . . We are colored and colorless, Africans and Scandinavians . . . We speak a hundred languages...