Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules are intended to cut the number of teen smokers by 50 percent within seven years. Photo ID will be required to buy cigarettes, while vending machines will be eliminated in all but adults-only spots where minors cannot venture. Advertisements in teen magazines are restricted to a deliberately drab black and white text-only format. Billboards advertising tobacco products are subject to the same rules, and none are allowed within 1,000 feet of schools or playgrounds. After fashioning this policy missile, the Clinton camp hurled it right at Bob Dole, who half-heartedly defended tobacco last month, questioning...
...white male" who made the call, and is also looking at videotape taken in the park that night to see if Jewell can be spotted placing the bomb. While no evidence of Jewell's involvement has surfaced, there is some circumstantial evidence available. Jewell owned an olive drab backpack similar to the one seen containing the three pipe bombs, and apparently fits the FBI profile of the bomber. Says TIME's Elaine Shannon: "They don't have a whole lot of evidence on him yet, but it may come pretty quickly. Still, they're not breaking out the champagne...
...then there are all those other people--actors. But occasionally stars want to prove their seriousness. Art stirs in their breast like an edifying influenza, and they take on roles outside their expected range. Falling prey to the lure of sackcloth and Oscars, normally glammed-up female stars don drab frocks, sport the no-makeup makeup look, play a character who opts for the spiritual over the sexual and, if possible, speak in an exotic accent. Hey, if it worked for Meryl...
...this summer's crop of well-intentioned but clueless souls endeavoring to turn their drab backyards into earthly Edens, the 3D Landscape CD-ROM could be as valuable as seeds or hoes. With this instructional software from Books That Work, budding green thumbs can design their own realistic gardens on an easy-to-use computer grid, dragging and dropping into place any of 800 plants and flowers. Advanced features let users take a 3-D tour of their creations or watch the virtual gardens blossom and fade as the seasons pass. One tip: Don't add water. (Books That Work...
...from being predictable and drab, the Boston Lyric Opera's production of Handel's "Xerxes" that debuted last week at the Emerson Majestic is light-hearted, enjoyable and, at times, even captivating...