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In the wonderful A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman (circa 1658), carousers from his drab Rotterdam pictures have entered the finely nuanced space of his Delft interiors.
Yet she arrived in France in the 1950s, a time of drab poverty and rubble, one century after rich New World travelers made their first bewildering return trips to Europe and one long shock-filled war after the jazz age and its tremors.
How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?
Navigating through brightly colored racks of Tommy Hilfiger gear and a bold display of Timberland boots, I had been distracted by a drab blot to the right of the aisle.
It's "drab, anonymous pop" (Robert Hilburn, the Los Angeles Times ) with a few Babyface-style R&B numbers thrown in for good measure.