"You make friends when it's warm so when it gets dreary you have connections and can visit back and forth," said Mrs. Locke, who was stationed at the bottom of the slide and urging Niall, 5, and William, almost 3, to play nice and take turns.
"Growing up in a miserable, old stone house in Scotland where the winters are dark and dreary and it gets dark by 4 in the afternoon, I was immediately taken with this house because of the massive windows that let in all this wonderful light, even during winter," said Mr. Paterson, president of the Wingate Association.
"Thank goodness" says Simon Verlaque in an unparalleled piece of straw clutching, "that they got dreary Hayden with his 70.37 strike rate out.
After the November holidays, the winter got drearier and drearier, especially at the Writers' Union.
His neorealist approach, not supported by much technique, gets dreary, but he has an ace up his sleeve: Taniya Khan, the Kashmiri computer science student who plays Bani.
Sometimes this shades-of-gray style gets dreary (his range must be about half an octave), but more often the washed-out melodies match his bleak sensibility.
Mr. Gervais popped back onstage throughout and his material kept getting drearier.
"It can get really dreary," he said.
"It had gotten a little dreary, funereal," admitted Ralph Rourke, a college official and expert on the history of the auditorium.
(Zachary Woolfe) 'Don Giovanni' (Saturday and Tuesday) One of the Metropolitan Opera's most disappointing shows gets a dreary revival.
