Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even his trainer when he won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland two weeks ago. Among the several dark horses was an import from South America named Canonero II, the only horse on the track that had previously raced the 1¼mile Derby distance. But his prospects were dim, according to one tip sheet: "Canonero II. Unknown factor from Venezuela who just got out of quarantine. No horse from abroad has ever won the Derby and he doesn't figure to make history...
...will continue to ignore them as long as they feel confident that massive protest will not leave the methods they understand-lobbying, letter-writing, voting in elections. The spectacle of more and more of their constituents turning away from electoral politics and risking arrest and prison may spark a dim realization that the voters can no longer be appeased by delay and futile gestures: that they want withdrawal, and that they will make trouble until U.S. troops and bombers stop slaughtering the people of Indochina...
...tinostalgic metaphors, each of the stars takes off the public mask and appears in his own Folly. It is a vaudevilification of their benighted circumstances, in which the truth shines like a spotlight. For the first half of the evening, the stage has been shrouded in melancholy: dim lighting, failed hope, blunted ambition. But in the intensely personal, Ziegfeld-like "Loveland" sequence, lights and color suddenly challenge the eye, an umber paintbox opened in the sun. This visual dazzle is reminiscent of Vincente Minnelli's movie musicals ?notably the focal ballet in An American in Paris. Onstage...
...time, nostalgia will dim or even erase memories of assassinations, wars, racial hatred and student riots from its vision of the '60s, just as it has long since done away with the slime, the stench and the wanton slaughter of that noblest of human conflicts, World War I. Nostalgia is like Marie Antoinette, who commissioned the finest artists and architects of France to build eight picturesque peasant farms beside her Petit Trianon. They were perfect-right down to porcelain vases from Sevres used for milking the cows. Nostalgia selects only what is agreeable, and even that it distorts...
Harrison takes a dim view of the ABA tactics but will feel no bitterness toward any of his players who sign...