Word: dim
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...history, the undergraduate response was swift. Whisperings of a mass boycott did laps of the student body, which complained loudly about the new rules; we were not amused. Seemingly deprived of fun on the most anticipated Saturday morning of the year, the weekend’s prognosis was dim...
...through the 1920s Picasso's work found its way fitfully into the U.S., through occasional, short-lived exhibitions or dim black-and-white reproductions. But when the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) opened in Manhattan in 1929, it allowed for the first time the permanent display of a few real Picassos in the city where nearly all of the most alert American artists were gathered. That is what happened to The Studio, which Picasso completed in 1928. It was first seen briefly in the U.S. five years later. But by 1935 it had found its way into MOMA's permanent...
...nothing" Congress. It turned out to be an easy target for President Truman's Democrats, who retook both chambers. Such waves can sneak up. In September 1994 a Congressional Quarterly columnist, voicing the conventional wisdom of the time, wrote that the G.O.P.'s chances of taking the House were "dim." Two months later, Newt Gingrich and company capitalized on disaffection with the Democrats that peaked on Election Day and pulverized the Dems' Capitol Hill majorities...
...Ferrell, who seems to be stretching his comedic skills but is in fact contracting them. No actual acting required here (unlike, say, Jim Carrey's turn in the Kaufman film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), just the occasional slim smile under existential pressure and the radiating of a dim niceness. Ferrell also intermittently channels the numerological obsessions of Hoffman's character from Rain Man. Remind me: did that film win the big... Oscar? The Academy campaign starts Nov. 10, at a theater near...
...brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug, dimly lit lair, press a glowing button labeled "Thirsty," which summons a smiling server, and you'll be downing cocktails and nibbling on dim sum in minutes. Our test troupe of warblers featured dead ringers for Alanis Morissette alongside nervous off-key newbies who quickly lost their inhibitions and refused to give...