Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite protests to the contrary, the Aztec "concept" computer Intel showed off last week is strikingly similar to Apple's iMac: it's small and colorful, the trippy case is sealed shut and there's no floppy. Intel hopes the stylish design will lure buyers put off by the drab, hulking PCs sold now. The chipmaker won't actually make the machine, but is prodding PC vendors to do so by late next year...
...like it that the wood and mud-brick houses of towns have yet to become drab, concrete cities, that the villagers have not traded their packhorses for personal cars, that food is still cooked in hot pots over live, burning coals, that the women still wear their brightly colored headdresses and ethnic dress. Perhaps even the fact that I cannot access the latest international newspapers has been therapeutic for this would-be journalist...
Furtive infrequent forays into the Free State aside, the narrator spends most of his days in less resplendent parts of Northern Ireland than stream's edge. His is a rather drab, traditional world, where the Catholic Church is the final arbiter of any question, but where religious allegiance must be downplayed to avoid the attention of the Protestant authorities, who are especially vigilant in the years following World War II in which the book is set. Old grudges are fresh in this society, and memories of the not-so-distant rebellions are almost more vivid than the events of daily...
...altered as stage-managed. To the visitor, that lion and lioness sunbathing on Pride Rock look close enough...well, close enough to eat you. But they are separated from the tram by an unseen gulch too wide for the beasts to straddle. The savanna where they roam was once drab cow pasture, but every weed and rut has been meticulously contoured and art-directed to resemble an African plain. Disney's Imagineers did a convincing makeover. When Franklin Sonn, the South African ambassador to the U.S., saw the place last month, he said, "This is the bush veldt. This...
...literal mystery becomes a psychological one, an investigation into the whys and wherefores of suicide and envy. Soon enough, Hoolihan finds herself facing the abyss that lies between Jennifer's seemingly ideal life and her own drab existence. "Jennifer Rockwell is inside of me," the cop says, "trying to reveal what I don't want to see." And this, of course, is Amis' mode as well: to shine a flashlight on our seamy undersides and see what crawls...