Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern hotel that lies in a shifting no-man's-land: "This our voyage en orient. But the Orient doesn't exist. It is a creation of the west. And all this--this is the fall of Western civilization." The guerillas all speak French or English; clad in olive drab fatigues, they play classical pieces on a Steinway ornamented with a machine gun. Many have spent time in Europe. The most repulsive character in the movie is a suave French-speaking member of the Christian aristocracy whose hypocrisy glares through a greasy patina of European culture. The journalists talk among...
During the Zavidovo visit, Brezhnev's vulnerability allowed a human contact that was not to recur. One afternoon I returned to my villa and found hunting attire, an elegant, military-looking olive drab, with high boots, for which I am unlikely to have any future use. Brezhnev, similarly attired, collected me in a jeep. I hate the killing of animals for sport, but Brezhnev said some wild boars had already been earmarked for me. Given my marksmanship, I replied, the cause of death would have to be heart failure. Still, I would be willing to go along...
...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...
...Have Known." They are short stories told to him by friends, colleagues and garrulous strangers, tales of grieving women and domineering men, icy wives and bewildered husbands, doomed love, inexplicable marriages, and acrimonious separations. None of them has the immediacy of the author's angst and the ultimate drab effect is of trite case studies masquerading as literature...
...seaport whose windswept shipyards had given birth to Solidarity in August 1980. They hustled him aboard a flight to Warsaw and then held him in a government guesthouse south of the city. They cut off communications with the outside world and imposed martial law. While the people slept, olive-drab tanks and armored personnel carriers moved through the snow-filled streets to take up positions in cities and towns across the country...