Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shirley Chisholm is also making an effort to build a coalition of blacks, the Spanish-speaking, women, and the poor. While her chances of winning the nomination (let alone the election) are very dim, her campaign is important as an effort to mobilize and organize an otherwise slighted constituency. Her efforts in the black community could prove particularly important. If blacks are to gain a real share of influence in the political process, they must set up political organizations which are capable of mobilizing black voters at election time. Turnouts of all ethnic varieties in poor areas have been...
...floodlights gleamed outside the living room, and the dim figures of federal marshals could be seen patrolling in the pouring rain, the judge related how he had sent his wife and son to Europe last summer to avoid the turmoil. "We considered sending Mark to school in England this year but decided against it. We've got to live in our own country." Shirl Merhige added resignedly: "We live with fear all the time. But our country is changing, and this will pass...
...singing team, the couple trails a history of hit records of the mid-'60s, but as variety stars, neither has the comic gift to unthaw their frigid material. The saving feature of the show is Cher's singing. Give her a song and she electrifies a dim-watted production. Her rock-pop voice sounds like a cross between a mating call and a sonic boom. If only the producers did not insist that she also try to act and be funny...
...Nobody Knows is an ingenuous comedy of the vernacular that succeeds because of its preciseness without ever having to sacrifice its dignity. The problem is the inherent pretentiousness of the play's "socially relevant" theme. In the second act cliche overwhelms originality. At arbitrary moments the lights suddenly dim to blue and an individual actor or perhaps the entire company whimpers some plaintive song that sounds like a speech Rod McKuen might have written for John Lindsay. A few times the self-indulgence runs so deep I expected the cast to start asking the audience for spare change...
...Detroit police take a dim view of the operation, but there is nothing illegal about it. "A lot of things we used to believe to be obscene are now considered art," says Inspector William Hart, chief of the vice squad. "We just try to stay on top of the situation and keep such places out of the residential areas." School officials are even less happy about the way some of their students are picking up money. As one administrator puts it: "It may take more time away from their studies, but we'd rather see our girls...