Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAIN, solid-thinking, no-nonsense Swiss engineer visits a drab, small-town cafe to make a speech in his campaign for the Swiss parliament. He stands erect at the podium with all of his bourgeois respectability, smoothly articulating his planned platitudes to a carefully selected, receptive audience. Midway through his speech the moderator calls for a break so that the listeners can refresh themselves with mugs of beer--on the house, of course. From behind the counter emerges a waitress carrying a tray of refreshments, and a striking entrance it is: tall and slender, with long black hair and deep...
...Paul, driving his car along a country road after visiting Adriana, pulls into a dirt lane, pushes back his seat, rolls up the window, and closes his eyes to go to sleep--then another date announcing a new day flashes on the screen. Adriana sits alone nude in her drab room, cooking some broth on her hot plate; she gets up from her chair and slips into a robe; she returns to her chair--and again, suddenly, it is a new day, and we watch Paul as he pulls up to the cafe...
...Pierre Paringaux cabled to TIME after visiting the city last week: "The foreign observer immediately notices the amazement of the young revolutionary soldiers who look like hillbillies in front of an Ali Baba cave that still spews diverse riches and gadgets from an essentially American and Japanese consumer society. Drab, in uniform without decorations or grade, shod in rubber-thonged sandals, they are visibly astonished by these elegant, made-up young women, by these people their age astride Hondas. Also incredulous are the people of Hanoi, who for 20 years have lived in austerity, when they see in their newspapers...
...sound but also to require builders to follow Rome's 1965 master plan, which specifies where and how the city should grow. Instead of the planners' vision of broad boulevards in town and garden communities on the outskirts, the illegal building has spawned a chaotic jumble of drab office and apartment towers on narrow, treeless streets. By one estimate, 300,000 people-the equivalent of the population of Wichita,Kans.-now live or work in buildings erected without construction permits...
...past, the Saigonese could draw a feeling of security from the presence of foreign troops, no matter how much they may have despised and exploited them. There were white-hatted legionnaires, French paratroopers in red berets, then Americans in khaki and olive drab. After 3 p.m. there was never an empty seat on "the Continental Shelf," the raised veranda of the Continental Palace Hotel. Now there are many. The realization is only beginning to sink in on the Saigonese that the Americans are not coming back after...