Word: drabs
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...sure, SIA's government backing does not translate into obvious excess. The airline's headquarters is located in a drab industrial building on Changi Airport's grounds. Its furniture looks worn enough to date to the airline's launch (and an orange color scheme reveals its 1970s sensibilities). A few years ago, data-processing operations were moved to Bombay, India, for the cost savings...
...anyone who has not yet visited Poland, the country can conjure up grainy images of World War II, Nazi occupation and drab, communist-era decay. Though it's 15 years since the Soviet tanks left, the country has yet to shake that reputation. That's a shame: Poland may be the most underappreciated destination in Europe. From the meticulously reconstructed old square in Warsaw to medieval Cracow and the white sand beaches of the Baltic, the country boasts some of Central Europe's most unexpected pleasures. Poland is preparing to join the European Union in May, and Poles hope...
...associated with” organizations that themselves have only speculative ties to Al Qaeda. So desperate for evidence, the Government has resorted to identifying enemy combatants based, in part, on their wardrobe—the wearing of Casio watches and “olive drab clothing” has been “cited as proof that the detainees were enemy combatants...
...pleasurable bunk and shrewd criticism to basically just compiling drivel. On a redeeming note, “La Cucaracha” does emphasize the musical prowess of this tireless group of oddballs. Though their foray into reggae in “The Fruit Man” is somewhat drab, they show themselves as masterful mimics of the country music style in “Learnin’ to Love” and channel such artists as Cher, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Donovan, and The Doors in other tracks. As an album independent of the Weenian corpus...
Although “We Own the Night” is set in a stark, drab New York City of 1988, it is unmistakably a product of our current social climate—a loud glorification of government-backed violence and a raucous endorsement of a “do whatever it takes” mentality. In the film’s world, cops are still called pigs, cocaine rules the street, Blondie still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact...