Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tenth Man. In a drab Mineola, L.I. synagogue full of picturesque Jews, Playwright Paddy Chayefsky mixes surrealism and Freud, demonology and farce to create a play that succeeds as theater but fails as anything deeper...
...family was rarely false to the Shavian armorer's creed. The blood-and-iron saga of Kruppdom, including its rise from the ashes of World Wars I and II, is an intrinsically fascinating story. Unfortunately the drama is often dulled by German-born Author Norbert Muhlen's drab style. But he livens his chronicle with a series of personality sketches of the lonely, driven eccentrics who lorded it over the steelworks at Essen, and were lucky at cartels, unlucky at love...
...Moscow's Likhachov Automobile Plant, "that many of those who get married in church do so not because they believe in God but because they like the ritual with its solemnity and color." Even the Communist Party had to agree that Soviet weddings could hardly be more drab. Izvestia, carried away with the monotony of it all, even offered prizes for those who could think up elaborate and colorful rituals to substitute for Christian baptism, a coming-of-age ceremony that would correspond to confirmation, and a new wedding ritual...
MOSCOW, Oct. 26--The hidden side of the moon is largely drab plains with far fewer landmarks than we see on its face, Soviet scientists said tonight...
...virtues." The Guardian's Eric Newton likes the way "his gluttonous eye devours his surroundings in huge optical mouthfuls, and his restless, untiring hand transfers them to canvas with the garrulous enthusiasm of a born raconteur." Critics applauded the latest addition to Bratby's usual drab cast of bohemian friends and family-Brigitte Bardot. Bratby claims no speaking acquaintance, picked her out of a magazine one day when a model failed to show. Of Bratby's current Bardot pictures, Critic Newton noted: "He has not yet begun (and perhaps he never will begin) to learn...