Word: drabs
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Doug D. Bennett ’04 is working on a project to build an indoor organic garden to brighten up Currier House’s drab basement hallways, while Colvin has suggested a student-run compost...
...Gibraltarian plumber and a Spanish mother, Galliano, 43, grew up in gritty south London and moved to Paris in 1990. Fashion at the time was all about giant shoulder pads and drab minimalism, but Galliano was determined to change that. In 1995 he landed the job of revitalizing the stuffy house of Givenchy and shocked the French fashion establishment with his romantic vision of disheveled beauties in chiffon slips and billowing ball gowns. A year later, when he took over the coveted top spot at Dior, a couture house with a heritage more sacred to the French than...
...Inside a drab brown former municipal building, teens and grandmas get down with their bad selves in belly dancing classes taught by Johara (a stage name—“Jewel” in Arabic). Although the clickety-clack of the tap ingenues in the adjacent studio travels through the walls, once the Middle Eastern beats are turned on, the room transforms into a glorious world of hip-shaking and undulating. Johara’ s form of belly dancing fuses styles ranging from Egyptian to Turkish Gypsy to Saudi Arabian. This may seem a little overwhelming for some belly...
Kerry's lackluster years in the senate show that he would be the worst kind of President--drab, passive, waffling and doing whatever his liberal Democratic friends in Congress tell him to do. DEX NILSSON Huntsville...
...east Germany of the '70S and '80s, Christiane (Katrin Sass) is a party-line do-gooder: dashing off imploring memos for better working conditions as she glances at her wall icon of Che Guevara. Her East Berlin neighbors may chafe under the drab dictatorship of the proletariat, but she believes. Then she suffers a severe heart attack and falls into a coma, regaining consciousness after eight months. A doctor urges Christiane's grown son Alex (Daniel Bruhl) to shield her from any further shocks. Just one problem: it's 1989, and the Wall has crumbled; communism is kaput...