Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside, the Paradise Cafe is cramped and dim, furnished with an erratic array of small wooden and linoleum-topped tables. There's a juke box pressed against the front wall that a cluster of waifs and their serene elders stray in to dance around. The bar is on the periphery of Central Square, fairly close to MIT, and it's frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side...
...though his surroundings were changed, his power base taken away, he was remarkably the same man who had inhabited the dim offices of the Budget Bureau some seven years ago when his Government career started...
Manter Hall's physical plant precludes any extra-curricular activities. Three floors of classrooms constitute the entire school. The dusty halls, off white and drab brown walls, dark floors, iron stair cases and dim lighting all contribute to the musty atmosphere of the 50-year-old building. Everything in the school seems to be coated with a layer of dust. Hall cites the school's lack of recreational facilities and limited extra-curricular activities as its chief disadvantages. "We are a 9 to 3:30 workshop-type school," he explains...
...dumped back into the realities of Detroit and New York. But the memories mingle and linger: supreme of pheasant smitane, Rockefeller, Harriman, Dillon, chestnut mousse, Bob Stack, Nanette Fabray, De La Renta, Alsop, filet of salmon in aspic, Cronkite, Swearingen, Humphrey, Schramsberg blanc de noir, Auchincloss. Watching from the dim corners of the old Decatur House on Lafayette Square, where the ladies went for tea, or inside the stately Anderson House, where Sadat the next day returned the White House favors with a dinner, one could see that a lot of the people had seen each other under similar circumstances...
Caldwell is never more alive than when rehearsing. That, of course, is when she accomplishes most of her actual work. As the lights dim, she will chortle, "Ho ho ho, magic time," and begin to study the stage through those Thespian prisms that pass for eyes. One of her greatest but least appreciated strengths is her sense of proportion, or scale. In The Trojans Sarah made the horse as big as she could on her small stage, but was still not satisfied with the effect. Who finally emerged from the horse? Midgets and children costumed as soldiers. Sarah gets around...