Word: nondescripts
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...meets him as a child playing God with potato bugs, and gradually watches him emerge pretty much as a bugged vegetable himself. In a series of widely spaced vignettes, portrayed as through a wobbly hand-held camera, he attends his father's funeral, makes desultory love to a nondescript girl in a hotel room, gets married, has a son, and finally dies. In between, he takes long walks, smokes endless cigarettes, compiles lists, uninventively takes inventories, floats cosmically, and grunts romantically...
...serene faith. For 20 years, Robert Farrar Capon, 43, has been an Episcopal priest in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an old Long Island shipbuilding town on the edge of the Manhattan commuter belt. He lives with his wife Peg, their six children, two cats (named Anthony and Bartholomew) and a nondescript dog in a century-old house adjoining his small white clapboard church. At dinner time, the sweet cooking aromas wafting out of the old rectory hint at the true nature of a man who is no ordinary country vicar...
Last week the Atheneum reopened after undergoing a $4,700,000 renovation and sprouting a new wing. The new building, nondescript modern in style, projects out from the Atheneum's original Gothic Revival castle and connects it with a 1930s addition of equally indeterminate character...
...vest open, his bow tie flaring and his Havana cigar lit, Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone scrunches down in his high-backed chair at his company's nondescript headquarters on Chicago's North Side. "Wealth is power," he proclaims. "Wealth is good. With money you can do good-your whole horizon changes...
...sewage system and poor telephone service. After a hurricane, the roughly paved streets are often under water for days. The architecture might best be described as "Florida nondescript." Yet Key Biscayne, only 15 minutes from Miami's garish strip, is fondly billed as an "island paradise" by its chamber of commerce-and in many ways...