Word: nondescriptive
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...physically nondescript Peter Sellers (a pair of glasses, really, with a man attached) was known for vanishing wholly into his characters. He disappeared into Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove and Being There's Chance the Gardener. But did he have a character of his own? It is a credit to HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Dec. 5, 9 p.m. E.T.) and its star, Geoffrey Rush (Shine), that this TV biopic sometimes makes you want to know. We meet Sellers as a young radio comic supported by a loyal wife (Emily Watson) and driven to want more...
China's central plains city of Ruzhou is nondescript in most ways, known to the rest of the country mainly as a source of prized decorative porcelain produced during the graceful Song dynasty eight centuries ago. Last week, the city's place in the nation's consciousness acquired a stain that may take years to fade. At midnight, a 21-year-old named Yan Yanming reportedly entered the dormitory of Ruzhou's No. 2 High School and slipped into the rooms where male students slept. Yan slashed some students' throats, according to Xinhua, the state news agency. Others he stabbed...
...more surprising than what Erickson and his peers at a nondescript warehouse in Elizabethtown, Ky., accomplished that day is who they work for: United Parcel Service. Isn't UPS, universally known as Big Brown, a package-delivery company? Yes--and no. Sure, the bulk of the Atlanta-based company's $33 billion in revenue still comes from moving boxes from one place to another. But the company is rapidly expanding into something called supply-chain management, helping hundreds of clients like Royal Canin not only move products from place to place but also store, assemble and repair goods, even interact...
...visit to the City Centre Mall helps explain this upbeat view. "We're happy with our experience here," says Pawan Jaiswal, owner of Ybrant, which sells pillows and curtains. Every day thousands of Delhiites pour in to shop at the malls at Gurgaon, which has turned from a nondescript village into a sprawling city in a few years, thanks largely to its half-dozen malls. Indeed, the City Centre Mall shows that with the right blend of good design, top brand names and a central location, malls can be successful in India...
...executive vice president. "He shows us a good time." CEOs rarely stoop to carouse with the common man in an Asia dominated by secretive business clans and élite old-boy networks. But Kim is no ordinary Asian boss. He began his career 35 years ago as a nondescript engineer at an LG refrigerator factory, climbed the ranks, and claimed the CEO post in October. Now he aims to duplicate the same feat with LG - lifting a consumer-electronics company little known outside Asia into the stratosphere of global brands with Sony, Panasonic and Samsung. "I want to go down...