Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automotive philosophy developed the industry, and how the philosophy became distasteful to the American people, but she fails to explain how it altered American life. No one yet has seriously examined the effects of the automobile and automotive philosophy on American life: the rendering of culturally unique areas into drab everytowns; the massive postwar suburbanization and its neurosis-inspiring effect on the American character; the twisted notion of independence which comes from being able to travel wherever and whenever one wants, as all destinations become the same; the commodity fetishism and emotional confusion which auto ads have promoted...
...jubilant Yasser Arafat projected an image of satisfaction and optimism as he talked with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn after the Rabat summit last week. The P.L.O. leader was not wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh and dark glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when...
...paintings of Marden, 36, are almost too simple: they are groups of canvases butted together in diptychs or triptychs, each surface painted one uniform color-usually a drab, dense gray. It seems an inert formula but it is not, largely because of what Marden learned from Jasper Johns-how to spread a skin of oil and wax over the surface of a canvas with such subtlety that, though monochrome, it is full of half-suppressed or latent incidents. The paintings do become objects of contemplation, like landscapes; but their austerity is so low-keyed as to risk blandness...
Born Yesterday is a late '40s remake of the Pygmalion story. The movie is pretty drab, even for fluff, but Judy Holliday stole the show and saved it with her portrayal of the dumbest of all dumb blondes. The revival at the Loeb has its own virtues: see page two. Born Yesterday is playing Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets half an hour before the performance, at the door...
...things they own and the way they train. Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...