Word: pallidly
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...ironically, the key issue in the New York dispute. Kheel closeted himself with the negotiators, and the group stayed in session from 7 in the evening until 8 the next morning. Two hours later, they reconvened and kept at it until 1 the following morning, when a haggard, pallid Kheel announced: "With the benefit of sleep and reflection, we will be able to move forward." His optimism was well meant, but Kheel and company are concerned with an issue that promises no swift solution...
Gloomy Figures. British businessmen scoffed. "We have doubts and suspicions," growled the powerful Confederation of British Industry. "A pallid pill," said the Institute of Directors. "The missing ingredient is incentive." Wrote the Economist: "The plan talks of growth and great social reform, but it dare not set down the proposals to achieve them, not with all those foreign bankers looking on. What Labor has got now is responsibility without power, the prerogative of the cuckold down the ages." When Brown went on television to defend the plan, the Tories demanded (and got) equal time to reply...
Late Starter. An international jury of 21 picked the prizewinners, although it could not wait until the U.S. entries (delayed by dock strikes) were uncrated. The U.S. entrants, a rather pallid and particular group of seven "cool" hard-and soft-edge abstractionists, were conceded to be out of the race anyway, since Americans won both the last São Paulo and Venice biennials. The Grande Prémio (a gold medal, shorn by poverty of its usual cash bonus) was split between Italy's Alberto Burri and France's Victor Vasarely...
...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...
...century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded in 1911 by the British -is the youngest of the nation's great cities, and its least distinctive. Dust swirls through its broad, beige streets; beggars sleep on its sidewalks beneath gaudy murals; and pallid politicians occupy center stage...