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In fact, Cook was borrowing from the playbook of a top executive at Apple's dowdier rival Microsoft--a genial, sandy-haired man named Brad Smith.

got it maid As Anna Bates she's mainly found in the dowdier quarters of Downton Abbey, but for actress Joanne Froggatt, 34, life ain't so shabby Anna's look hasn't changed over the last five series, do you ever get costume envy?

"I grew up with a really glamorous mum, so it would be unnatural for me to say, 'Must look dowdier.' But you don't want to distract people from the sport."

My daughter says the older I get, the dowdier my wardrobe is becoming.

Hudson looks earthier and dowdier than usual, in line with a role more serious than her recent romantic-comedy turns, and she effectively registers the tempestuous moods and emotions required by the film's soapiest passages.

The beautiful bird is streets ahead of its dowdier feathered friends when it comes to picking up tit-bits thrown from visitors.

The participants are Essam el-Hadari, Ahmed el-Shenawi, Ahmed Said Okka, Mahmoud Alaa, Saad Samir, Basem Ali, Ahmed Hegazi, Islam Ramadan, Ali Fathy, Hossam Hassan, Mohamed el-Nini, Mohamed Salah, Marwan Mohsen, Ahmad Dowdier, Ashour el-Taqi, Ahmed Hassan Mekki, Ahmed Temsah and Ahmed Khairy.

By way of courtship, the black males will fly at each other at combat speed, full of bluster, to compete for the attention of the dowdier grey hens, at sites know as leks.

In a 1994 essay on the restoration of his house in upstate New York, he notes that "nostalgia, if it isn't good for anything else, seems to elicit poetry." Nostalgia (literally, the ache to go home) certainly elicits poetry here, the poems filled with things of an earlier, dowdier American culture: a darning egg, deviled eggs, glycerin, a hall tree, "prelapsarian school picnics," sugar tongs, and "Walsh's, with its fancy grocery department." In another poet's work, such things might appear in a sticky, contrived spot of time or in a merely ironic bit of kitsch.

In the same way, dowdier districts of the East End will be transformed into an Olympic village of 4,000 new homes, with a state of the art stadium.

Houlihan, looking much older and dowdier than in her internet photo, appeared and spoke.