Word: drabs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fattah of Cairo's al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and author of The Politics of Religion. "The veil gives women more power in a man's world." Ziada, the human-rights activist, says the hijab--her headscarves are in pinks, pastels, floral prints and plaids, not drab black--provides protective cover and legitimacy for her campaigns...
...place. “Outside of here, it’s death,” Hamm says, but inside has an air of decay as well. The uniform lighting almost never changes, and even the characters themselves are stuck in their initial locations. Cracks and water stains blemish the drab walls; outside light is prevented by boarded windows adorned with ragged, brown curtains. Adhering closely to Beckett’s own directions, this starkness allows the interactions of the characters to become the focus. In contrast, the A.R.T.’s last staging in 1984 incited sharp criticism from...
Reyzl R. Geselowitz ’10 of the Jewish Women’s Group saw the crowd as a testament to the drab dating scene at Harvard...
...Castle is an unlikely home for a world dictator. Although posh and secluded, the compound's pale pink boxlike villas look altogether drab in this city of tycoons and high rollers. On Saturday, a few shirtless residents smoked cigarettes on balconies, clotheslines suspended from the railings. Potted plants unevenly line the estate's walls - behind them, perhaps, lies a vital part of the exit strategy of Robert Mugabe, the President of impoverished Zimbabwe...
...When this tremendous mistake is undone, entrepreneurs will collaborate and compete, remaking in ways we literally cannot yet imagine the business of educating the flower of our youth. The drab monotony of a nation’s students taking notes off of a chalkboard in classrooms unchanged since Ike will be remade precisely the way our phones have been remade: with an explosion of unimagined options and quality, and with an eye to helping us remain productive in a newly complex and global world...