Word: dim
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Even before the Michigan and Florida decisions, Clinton's chances of overtaking Obama's lead in pledged delegates-those won as a result of primaries and caucuses-had looked dim. (He's currently about 150 delegates ahead, with only 10 contests left to go.) But her campaign had hoped that, had Michigan and Florida held new primaries, she would be able to take the lead from Obama in the popular vote total. And with that, she planned to make the argument to the party's "superdelegates"-the elected and party officials who get delegate slots by virtue of the positions...
...figures on show, but all scientific endeavor is represented by Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and TIME's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, who share a small annex with Vincent Van Gogh, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. In the dim light of the first gallery, it looks as if Ivana Trump has made the grade. Closer inspection reveals the figure to be British actress Joanna Lumley in her big-haired role as Patsy from the British TV comedy series Absolutely Fabulous...
...think, from the fact that it is so low tech. No cell phones, no computers, no mysterious electronic gizmos to help them. The robbery is all sweaty stoop labor and it is most suspensefully threatened when a nearby ham radio operator picks up walkie talkie transmissions between a dim-witted lookout and the diggers in the tunnel. There has been an attempt to position this movie as something rather light and larkish. But, believe me, it is not The Lavender Hill Mob Redux...
...French café mix played in the background, lending a dreamy quality to proceedings as students clambered onto a scaffold for a better view of the eclipse. Colorful paintings and photographs of outer space covered every inch of the walls, lit only by the skylight and a few dim, red lights...
...other for reconciliation. We will probably know who wins the delegate race before school is out. But it might be late summer before the parleys and the peacemaking that lead to a partnership get under way. A lot can happen in six months. The party's fortunes could dim; the hard feelings could soften. And by August, who knows? There is no telling what a Democratic nominee will need in a running mate-and vice versa. -With reporting by Jay Newton-Small/Washington