Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city dominated by drab architecture and numerous construction projects, Baghdad these days bears no resemblance to the legendary home of Harun al Rashid and A Thousand and One Nights. Although the battlefronts along the Shaft al Arab are more than 300 miles away, Iranian aircraft have brought the war to the Iraqi capital with repeated bombing raids against military and industrial targets. TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart and Correspondent Adam Zagorin report on the mood of the city...
...young wife and a fatal case of paranoia. Lillian (Deborah Harry) thinks she's Betty Bacall: purple nightgowns, lots of makeup and suggestive patter, gentleman friend on the side. She's not. She's a housewife who cannot keep house, and whose only escape from her drab apartment is a weekly movie matinee with the superintendent (Everett McGill). O.K., her Mongol cheekbones do suggest a touch of fashion-model class. True, the young super does look as if he placed second in a Jack Palance look-alike contest. But it is still 1953, and this is Union...
Shortly after dawn one day last week city workers began pulling down the olive-drab tents under elevated Interstate 95 in downtown Miami. The campsite had temporarily been home to a total of 4,000 Cuban refugees. But Campamento del Rio (River Camp) also had been an eyesore and health menace because of its exposed electrical wiring, plugged storm drains, filthy toilets and tainted food. By sunset, the last tent was down, and the remaining 750 residents had been taken away by bus. Left behind were a dozen Spanish names spray-painted on the thick concrete highway supports...
...drab villa in Trabia, a seaside resort 19 miles from Palermo, Sicilian police uncovered a virtual gold mine: the largest heroin laboratory yet found in Western Europe. Police estimated that the lab could produce up to 50 kg of heroin a day, worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here...
...document across the long table. It was the charter of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the new Gdansk-based umbrella organization representing 36 independent unions from all over Poland. Judge Zdzislaw Koscielniok declared he would examine the charter for two weeks and then rule on its legitimacy. As Walesa departed from the drab sandstone building, cheering workers hoisted him on their shoulders and carried him through the streets. "I'm counting on you," he shouted over the din, "and I believe you will help...