Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reminiscences published in Russia last year, Abel not only makes light of this lapse but uses it to score a point for his team, joining Spies Kim Philby and Gordon Lonsdale in the international intelligence game of trying to make the rival service look as dim-witted as possible. Abel boasts that he was able to destroy the most incriminating evidence under the noses of the arresting officers by flushing his encoder down the toilet and scraping paint from his artist's palette onto the coded cable. In the car that took him to prison, Abel claims that...
...minor roles, Jane Jackson as Argan's sinister wife and David Richardson, as the hopelessly inept Thomas Diafoirus, stand out. But many of the others don't quite know what to do with their roles. Jan Gough, as Angelique, is like a starry-eyed, dim-witted girl from Vassar. Burton Gaige, her lover, who wears a brown jacket, enormous gold pantaloons, and a long curly blond wig, looks more like the Cowardly Lion than Achilles. And Mike Kapetan, as Beralde, who should be the raisonneur of the play, is for some reason dressed in bright purple...
...danger to his comfortable preconceptions. He presides while his sailors obliterate them with superior firepower. Babu, the last surviver, petitions Delano for mercy: "Yankee master, understand me. The future is with us." Over the protests of Cereno and Perkins ("We want to save someone") and while the lights dim to blackness, Delano empties his pistol into the black's body...
...Without much exposure to business, a young Negro is often inadequately trained in the fundamentals that whites take for granted, including bookkeeping. When he ventures into enterprise, he runs into a financial community that often rejects him for reasons that strike him as strange: a shortage of collateral, a dim credit history, a lack of precise records...
...amount of bitterness, however, could dim the merry spirits of the people in the Square, who laughed. "It is so funny," a middle-aged woman in a brown shawl managed to say, "It is funnier than Playboy...