Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted to make his film in black and white. When the producers resisted, he and his habitual partner, Cameraman Sven Nykvist, found a compromise. Says Nykvist: "Ingmar and I agreed to shoot color in black and white." Although most of the film captures the dark, gray quality of drab Berlin, Bergman has punctuated the gloom with bright and often zany scenes. "After years of crying for him," says Liv Ullmann, who plays Manuela, the nightclub entertainer whom Carradine loves, "Ingmar has finally allowed me to sing and dance." Wearing the scantiest of costumes, Ullmann was ordered to perform badly...
...than usual. Workers, many of them living at or below the effective poverty line for South Africa's urban blacks, traditionally spend their modest year-end bonuses on a few toys, a bottle or two of brandy for a party, or perhaps a new piece of furniture for the drab little single-story brick houses in which they live...
...Later she rejected the God of the Old Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition was Christian, French and Hellenic. She also regretted having been born female. Her style of dress was the antichic of radical intellectuals of the '20s and '30s-drab, flappy and mannish. Her biographer gives no indication that Weil ever had lovers of either sex. Her single vice was cigarettes, and she suffered throughout her life from severe headaches. Red Virgin. Biographer Pétrement tightly knits the facts of Weil's life with the development...
LIFE CLASS. In the drab, chilly setting of a mingy government-sponsored art class, British Playwright David Storey sounds a muted dirge for a dying civilization...
George Hunt is particularly entertaining as Prince Dauntless the Drab, the weak-willed mother's boy in search of a wife and a way to untie the apron strings. Hunt doesn't sting all that well, but his comic sense is more than adequate, and he manages to stop the show a few times with broad gestures and a bewildered, hapless expression...