Word: nondescripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vanessa. Tackling a made-to-measure role, Actress Redgrave shows that she has inherited a fair share of the family talent along with the lack-looks of a backstairs maid. As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding. Her figure is so nondescript that she paws through heaps of female finery with the defeatist air of a girl attempting to dress up an old packing crate as a Louis XV commode...
Intimate Secrets. Mystery remained. When optical astronomers turned their huge glass eyes on some of the areas of sky manned by radio astronomers as sources of powerful emissions, they found only assortments of faint, nondescript stars. Then, in 1960, aided by pinpoint data supplied by Cambridge University's radio astronomers, and Caltech's Owens Valley Observatory, Caltech astronomers discovered that one stream of powerful signals was coming from what appeared to be a small, faint star. During the next few years, as radio telescopes continued to supply increasingly precise data, the California astronomers discovered three more faint, mysterious...
Robert Coles was trained as a child psychiatrist, and is now engaged in research with a base at the University Health Services. He also teaches a section of Professor Erik Erikson's undergraduate course, "The Human Life Cycle." His office is in the basement of a nondescript Harvard building. It is filled with books from the social sciences, poetry, and fiction, and the walls are covered with pictures of Southern school children and migrant workers. He writes more articles, of consistently high quality, than any man I know...
Armentières is a nondescript town in northern France with but one claim to fame: its mademoiselle, heroine of hundreds of World War I ditties, most of them dirty. For 50 years, it was a fame that Armentières preferred to leave unclaimed, but recently the town fathers have had a change of heart. Hoping for a tourist boom that might stimulate its sagging farm economy, Armentières last week began a fund-raising campaign for a statue in mademoiselle's, uh, honor...
...Desbarats (pronounced Deborah) is a tiny, nondescript village on the shore of the Canadian mainland just across Lake Huron from Michigan, but when Chicago socialites speak of Desbarats they mean a wonderfully scenic eight-mile stretch along the nearby St. Joseph Channel that is strewn with small islands on which unpretentious and simple cottages are half-hidden by evergreens and maples. Moreover, they will tell you in Lake Forest that Desbarats is not just a place but a way of life?a life of complete simplicity, where everyone wears old clothes, sleeps in an iron bed, and uses bottled...