Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remove dead cockroaches, but they never fail to dust the chandelier and the grand piano. Only at the ballet does the Russian's old love of flashing hues and sumptuous textures seem to come into its own. Even women's underwear at lingerie counters is coarse and drab, prompting a visiting French Communist's classic comment: "What under wear! Yet what a birth rate...
Burn he does, in the bedroom of his penitent for many a clandestine night. But love of woman, like love of God, can eventually cool. The mysteries of the confessional stripped away, the couple see each other for what they are: rather drab, aging, unattractive people. The "holy night of love" turns into a quarrelsome hell. The lady returns to the church. Giovanni, now defrocked, joins a ship of cutthroats, who plunder and murder but who, at least, have no illusions about themselves. "The sea is the only thing I do feel is holy," says Giovanni. "However it may storm...
...urban renewal that calls for complete demolition of neighborhoods. This policy, identified with such irrepressible planners as Robert Moses, too often has resulted in unhappy and unpleasant projects like that in Boston's West End. The spirit and sense of community were destroyed along with the slums, and the drab, institutionalized replacements are certainly less cohesive and hardly more attractive than the former slum neighborhood...
...alloys, plastics, photoelectric cells and the like, which did not then exist, newspapers wrote it up, and the Marshall Field department store contracted for its display, to go with some daringly "modern" furniture just imported from France. Fuller's 4D (for Fourth Dimension) title for the house seemed drab to the promotion-minded store executives; they assigned a couple of high-powered word-sculptors to work out a new word for it. After two days of hectic brainstorming, the result was "dymaxion"-vaguely compounded of "dynamic," "maximum" and "ion." Marshall Field copyrighted it in Fuller's name...
...cosmetics, porcelain and even-wonder of wonders-oranges. The Vopos seemed to be the major consumers of these tropical delicacies, and every snowy crossing point reeked with the tang of orange peel. But everyone knew that by mid-January the East Berlin grocery shops would be back to their drab staples: potatoes, cabbages and weary lentils...