Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is that inflation currently is pushing up store operating costs -wages, electric bills, transportation charges-much faster than food prices. Other chains have raised profits nonetheless, largely because they started much earlier than A.&P. in replacing dim, crowded stores with modern markets that get more volume per sq. ft. of selling space and have many more branches in the prospering Sunbelt. A. & P.'s markets are still heavily concentrated in the economically depressed mid-Atlantic states. Says Analyst Fred Kopf of Reynolds Securities: "It would have been easier for A. & P. if the world had stood still...
...actors prance and gesticulate in unison. Meanwhile, solo numbers like "He Reminds Her of Her Father" provide a somber contrast to all the antics. One beautifully staged moment occurs during an episode when one gent is musing over the reported infidelity of his wife. As the lights dim over wafting cigar fumes, another gentleman emerges from the wings to deliver a visceral rendition of "Vesti La Jupe" from Pagliacci. All of these tunes were written during the period 1894-1905, and the names of such luminaries as Victor Herbert and Davis Belasco appear in the credits...
Once again the actions and antics of the real President seemed destined to dim the best creations of the novelists who gave us Rattigan, Monckton and Ericson. The 2:15 a.m. New York briefing by Press Secretary Jody Powell was the kind of breathless drama the White House used to reserve for wars, assassinations and summits. This one was to announce a tentative agreement about a Geneva conference that may or may not happen some...
...believers pledged to use their own money and labor for renovations. Even so, prospects look dim. "They're afraid that if they open a church for us, they'll have to start opening churches all across the country," said Petition Organizer Benjamin Kozulin. Attempts are made to gather signatures in church grounds, but church employees who owe their jobs to the government break up the crowds and chase away the petitioners. When Kozulin and fellow church members made a similar effort a decade ago, he was threatened with imprisonment in a lunatic asylum and nine organizers lost their...
...film Lovers and Other Strangers led to her dim Godfather experience, and later she was funny in a bad Elliott Gould movie, Harry and Walter Go to New York, and then funny in a good Elliott Gould movie, I Will, I Will ... For Now. Last year she was delightful in a misbegotten Broadway comedy, The Primary English Class...