Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paramout is a curious featurette "The Wandering Wind" about a chaotic hot-air balloon race across the Catalina Channel. After much colorful preparation, gay music, and chatty reportage we see a stiff wind carry the only female contestant's balloon out to sea through a cotton candy cloud. A drab black and white newsreel, clipped on at the end, shows a rescue boat recovering her drowned body...
Exactly what the term "wonk" signifies, of course varies with who uses the word; it can denote anything from all those who got a better grade on the last hour exam than the speaker to a bonafide anal compulsive bookworm. Generally speaking, the term applies to a sort of drab toiler of limited cosmic vision, whose main concern in life is his academic grade average...
...incoming Prime Minister Harold Wilson wanted Gordon Walker to be Foreign Secretary in his new government, and under the British system a Cabinet member must have a seat in Parliament. Casting about for a safe constituency, Labor officials settled on Leyton, a drab East London working-class neighborhood represented in the House of Commons for the past 30 years by a 73-year-old Labor M.P. named Reginald Sorensen. Abruptly, Sorensen was invited to accept a life peerage and vacate the constituency, and a by-election was scheduled...
...unprecedented variety of gifts-thanks to the Kremlin's ever-increasing emphasis on consumer goods. In record numbers they jammed into department stores, shops and the barnlike discount houses called "market halls." Fifty new stores opened this month for the holiday season. In the huge but usually drab GUM department store, counters were piled high with everything from Winter Fantasy perfume ($4.44 an ounce) and 400 kinds of watches to luxury food baskets at only $57. To cope with a turnover of hall-a-million customers and $11.5 million in sales during the holiday week, GUM reported that...
...these playlets, not only in brooding menace, but in the sealed and airless abodes where characters are filled with the breath of death. The actors seem perfectly attuned to this death's dream kingdom, most notably Frances Sternhagen, who is scrupulously convincing as she shifts from the droning drab of The Room to the animated superficial niceties of professional wifeliness in A Slight Ache...