Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...medicine and housing, cost next to nothing and, to the envy of the rest of the world, have not increased in price in 20 years; yet "luxury" items, such as bicycles or radios, can soak up months of savings. The average urban worker is likely to: live in a drab, two-room unit in a massive, slate-gray apartment complex; work a 48-hour week; spend his Sunday picnicking in one of China's shady parks; pass his evenings in a workers' cultural palace watching a variety show (full of revolutionary songs and skits), learning a musical instrument...
...more specials on the recession. NBC broadcast an hour-long review on New Year's Day; to moderate a discussion between two economists, NBC borrowed Public Broadcasting's Rukeyser rather than relying on its own Irving R. Levine, a former foreign correspondent whose economic reporting has been drab and unperceptive. All three commercial networks have now begun to reorganize business coverage and recruit a few specialists...
...drab ninth-floor courtroom of the Suffolk County court house, everyone waits for question number...
...These drab traits undoubtedly worked against Miki in 1968, 1970 and 1972 when he unsuccessfully campaigned to be party leader. But Miki has also long had the reputation of being an idealistic party reformer. Although it is suspected that he is not quite the "Mr. Clean" he claims to be, he has been untainted by the major scandals involving party fundraising. For this reason, Miki is a plausible choice to refurbish the Liberal Democrats' somewhat tarnished public image. He is also widely respected for his political hara (guts...
Many of the remaining pieces make ingenious use of clay, transparent plastics or just plain pencil; only a few, like some cluttered and drab collages, are disappointing. As though filling in for an absent receptionist, an old woman of papier mache sits at her door-side table. The woman stares catatonically out of pale blue eyeballs and you can sidle right up and stare back without feeling embarrassed. Her card says simply that "she was taken to Boston Commons," a scrap of information of dubious significance, but you can think on it while you look. A shrewd glance reveals...