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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...
...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...
...cosmetics company over the past five years to have maintained or grown its market share in categories like cosmetics and hair care, both globally and in the U.S. Consider Maybelline, the U.S. mass-market cosmetics house that L'Oreal acquired in 1996. The French giant revamped the brand's drab packaging, relabeled it Maybelline New York to give it an urban edge and took it on the road. From 1996 to 2002, sales of Maybelline outside the U.S. grew 93%. Propelled by products like the glistening Water Shine Diamonds lipstick, which cashes in on the trendy wet look for lips...