Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also, consumer goods are still drab, often scarce and fantastically expensive (a compact car sells for about $8,000). The Soviet Union's estimated $570 billion G.N.P. is roughly half that of the U.S., yet the nation spends fully as much on defense and capital investment as the U.S. does. Inevitably, the pinch has come on consumption. Such goods as fully automatic washing machines are not made in the U.S.S.R. at all, and refrigerators and other household items are often so deficient in style and quality that workers see little point in laboring hard to get the money...
Chorus characters actively illustrate lyrics To bar songs from becoming drab These skits are quintesscent and quite reminiscent Of those tiny warped drawings...
...charm of dilapidation goes only so far. Today Hanoi is mostly drab, and you are very conscious that you are in a Communist city. North Vietnamese, Soviet and Chinese films play in the cinemas. Red flags are everywhere, and everywhere is the legacy of a war that has lasted for 30 years. Hanoi has not one but three war museums-one showing the battle of Dien Bien Phu, another acts of "American terrorism" and the third the thousand-year resistance against the Chinese and Mongols...
...Miss Emily Larson, a skilled bridge player at 96, who became ill and was placed in a hospital for the old. There she "sundowned"-experienced hallucinations because of strange surroundings. Miss Larson had the sense-and means-to refuse to join other patients in "the parking lot," a drab room in which they were expected to sit mutely in wheelchairs or, as a special treat, were asked to sing childish songs. There was also Charlie, who had stuck his head in his gas oven, and who complained when rescued: "But a man has a right...
...plays it safe by identifying them only as A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and Kovell. The plan is to "de-mandarinize" the elders at a secret New Hampshire hideout. This promising situation is not fulfilled with much imagination or wit. Pincus' fate is equally drab: prison, where he is reduced to suffering from a chronic earache...