Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students find apartments more pleasant than house rooms not only because of extra space, but for the little touches that make an apartment more like a home than a drab dorm...
...appointment. He not only forbids his wife to subscribe to a literary magazine and crosses out all suspiciously surnamed acquaintances from his address book, but also finally smashes all jars of imported food in the house, even the Bulgarian apple jam. The life of a third character is so drab that even a tiny gift from Paris, a red plastic spoon, lends his days a sudden radiance...
...middle-aged German (Alfred Edel) visits his renegade daughter in New York City and falls in with a liberated stripper (Annie Sprinkle, the porn star and performance artist). Monika Treut's rambling comedy could use more of the city's notorious juice and danger; her Manhattan is as drab as a Third World amusement park...
...truth is, from the point of view of the working press, it's generally pretty dull stuff. Hours are spent hanging around the courthouse waiting to be one of the 16 reporters admitted to the drab little courtroom in which the case is being tried. The rest of the time, the hundreds of journalists (including several dozen from France, England, Germany, Spain and Italy) lounge around a makeshift media center watching Court TV, which they could do in their hotel rooms. At one point, a reporter sitting in a room full of 90 journalists, who are watching the trial...
Watching Gap commercials, you would never think this was possible. George Michaels's "Freedom '90" plays in the background. A group of Chinese children are running down a flight of stairs. They are all wearing Mao hats, drab coats, monochrome school uniforms. Except one. He runs down, attired in Gap clothes--jeans, plaid shirt, smiling--bringing American democracy to the Communist state...