Word: drabs
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...once flashy city has become drab. The grass and trees, marinated for weeks in saltwater, are a dreary gray-brown. Parking lots look like drought-starved lake beds, with cracks in the mud. Within a few hours, anyone working outside is covered in a fine layer of grit. The trees that gave New Orleans such character--the centuries-old live oaks with their grand canopies and graceful lines--are toppled, exposing huge root balls 10 ft. or more in diameter. It's all the more surreal because the Garden District, which survived the flood, is lush and beautiful once again...
...besides scoping some hot Harvard bod and maybe seeing some drab suites, what could a worker possibly view inside Leverett towers...
...Ninja, the fizzbomb cheerleader/singer, shook jangling bells, while Chi Taylor-Fukami rocked out from behind a drum kit twice her size. Despite the positive energy and enthusiastic solicitation of audience participation, the show had a few flaws. The song “The Ice Storm” saw a drab, misguided instrumental jam, which brought down the crowd’s energy; the jam, though, was made less boring by the backdrop screen turned into a starry sky with swirling white lights. An out-of-key one-off vocal performance of “Hold Yr Terror Close?...
...front of a refreshments table loaded with a variety of low-calorie drinks (Aquafina, Schweppes, and Diet Coke), Whitman theorizes that the atmosphere has a lot to do with the clothes’ appeal. The customers, she says, “are walking in from the library, feeling drab and dumpy.” Posing in silk charmeuse cocktail dresses before the mirror and their friends, they become new people. “You know how it is when you put high heels on,” Whitman says...
...rectangular frames. “That’s from a friend who knew that I was just vain enough to hang up pictures of myself,” he chuckles. “You can write that down.” Matsui replaced the drab dorm lamps with the mod light of a movie projector. The compact machine rests on her desk, poised to illuminate the opposite wall, blank except for a clothesline of scattered photographs. Matsui also mounted two gilded wood carvings, trinkets from the pair’s trip to Bangkok. “We live...