Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker's ball...
...irony is consummated. Her special pride was her fidelity; his was being a self-taught genius. The Wallachs drum a tattoo of laughs on The Tiger's hide, and just as expertly drain the comic pathos from The Typists, a tale of two office-worker mediocrities whose lives dim out like light bulbs...
...Louvre. That they did is the responsibility of one man-Charles Andre Marie Joseph de Gaulle, 72. His ability to bring a skillful influence to bear upon events should be enough to send a believer in impersonal historical determinism back to his books. Tall and ungainly, so dim-eyed that he constantly stumbles, so seldom a listener that he seems deaf, De Gaulle should be a figure of fun (and sometimes is), but the greatness in the man usually survives the mockery. His mind is like the Louvre, filled with battle pictures in which the French are always winning...
...Administration's aid-to-education bill entered Congress on Monday, and is now being examined by the House Education and Labor Committee. Prospects for passage of the entire measure appear dim, according to some members of Congress...
...varsity wrestling team travels to Rutgers today to meet what coach Bob Pickett calls the "second best team in the East." Although chances for a team victory appear dim, captain Bob Kolodney, junior Bob Fastov, and sophomore John Hoffman are all given good chances of keeping their undefeated records intact...