Word: greys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, premeds are branching out into new shades of brown and grey, freely intermixing skin tone colors and shying away from trendy splashes of bright shades...
Theaters are warm, fuzzy, happy places, and I am partial to the odd excursion to them. Not that your mate Tony prides himself on great stores of dramatic knowledge; few mental cogs are engaged in the Gubba grey matter by play talk. But you've got to have some conversational material for Saturday morning beyond the carroty looking stain on your trousers...
...went outside for the first time to the grey, wet and devastating day. I was in shock at the destruction that had occurred: Trees were uprooted and scattered as if they were leaves blown about by an autumn gust of wind. Power lines and traffic lights were down everywhere, or hanging very low. Nothing would ever be the same...
With the advent of the 1992 Olympics and the ensuing waves of athletes, delegates, and other official paparazzi, Barcelona--or its electronic image, at least--is now at the focal point of world concern. The city that El Caudillo--Francisco Franco--kept drab and grey until he (finally) died has been entirely re-tailored for the critical electronic eye. Word has it, in fact, that the Barcelonese spent close to $10 billion on their nothing-but-enormous urban renovation program...
...stepped an elderly man in a rumpled grey tweed jacket and equally wrinkled slacks. He reached into his back pocket for his wallet to pay the cab driver, then picked up a small brown tweed garment bag and walked past an indifferent press corps into the library...