Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destiny. When she imagines a life full of love and beauty, Henry scoffs at her "elegant mirages" and pulls back into his hole. When he pulls back too far, she flies off to her air castle and shares it with a succession of inappropriate inamorati: a thieving thespian, a dim-witted trigamist, a great white hunter who inconsiderately gets swallowed by a lion...
...Astronomer, for instance, they noticed how Vermeer illuminated a dim interior with a brilliant shaft of light falling through a window. In View of Delft, his only known landscape, they discovered Vermeer's use of pointillé-tiny dabs of pigment that look like crystals of light. In portraits, his delicate lighting seemed to illuminate the very soul of his subjects. The age of Manet was understandably dazzled...
...visions" are an obvious pretext for threading together autonomous images and scenes, the sort of pretext Dylan has abused in earlier long songs like "Desolation Row," (Opus 6). But here there is sustained a consistent, liking, mood of dim light, vast space, and timelessness, a mood common to the above examples, and to the following long line and image...
...Foreign Languages Press at about $85 a month. He lived well by Chinese standards in a three-room apartment, had access to Western publications (including TIME) because of his work. Despite constant indoctrination at every stage of his life in China, the great promise of China began to dim: "In China, the people are not free of mind. They don't dare conflict with the official view...
...estimated billion dollars a year is going into such specialty foods, and virtually every self-educated epicure in the country today has his favorite Delikatessen, whose virtues he will describe in endless, lip-smacking detail. Dallmayr's, a dim, medieval-style emporium with vaulted arches, displays its caviar and Japanese shrimp on cracked ice (artfully hiding its modern refrigeration equipment), while live carp, perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked...