Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Physically, he is short and squat, with a balding round head and a Marcel Marceau repertoire of facial expressions. The style of dress can best be described as drab middle-class--co-captain Bill Omeltchenko thought he was a wino off the streets when he saw Carril scouting one of his high school games...
...operator and a parking-lot attendant. The cast exuberantly hauls around ladders, scaffolds and dollies to tunes written for the show by James Taylor and others. The message? Says Terkel, whose book was based on 135 taped interviews: "Working people are brighter than we think. Their jobs may be drab, but they transcend them." Terkel is beginning another oral history about "more intangible things, what happens to our dreams as kids, illusion and disillusion." The title: American Dreams: Lost & Found...
...leaves Burma seems mostly to be rocks, occasionally dotted with a tantalizing protrusion of green. When the rocks reach Thailand, after a journey of up to three days by truck, mule, boat and human porter, Chinese buyers guess how much jade, and what kind, may lie hidden beneath the drab surface of each stone. A skillful or lucky buyer can pay perhaps $5 per Ib. for rock that may yield thousands of dollars in jade...
...scenery flats and starched aprons cannot mug for the audience or recite witty lines. Scenic and vocal delights pale when the direction is drab and comic potential ignored. Although the company's voices are strong and clear, they may as well be disembodied. The staging is sometimes pedestrian, and there is a peculiar reluctance to ham up the show...
...Chicago-area Jewel Food Stores, the items on one stretch of shelf space stand in drab contrast to the rest of the brightly colored, elaborately packaged brands. The cans and packages, in uniformly dull black, white and olive labeling, bear only the unadorned name of the product-corn flakes, tomato juice, applesauce-in blunt, stencil-like lettering. Yet these no-name groceries have become hot items, and they could herald a change in the way that Americans shop. Reason: prices of the generic-name groceries range 10% to 35% below those of comparable brand-name products, and even undercut Jewel...