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Word: dimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your brain needs something dim...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Spacing Out | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Rusty is also given to occasional delusions of Dostoyevsky. "I have seen so much," he begins at one point, brooding over his liaison with the murder victim, and then recites a litany of misery, concluding, "The lights go out, grow dim. And a soul can stand only so much darkness. I reached for Carolyn." As excuses for adultery go, Rusty's sounds more than a little pretentious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Killed Carolyn Polhemus? PRESUMED INNOCENT | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

Should Aquino not issue the Executive Order on CARP, the chances for comprehensive agrarian reform seem dim. The majority of newly elected congressmen are landowners themselves, backed by the landowning class. As such they stand even less to gain from agrarian reform than does Aquino herself...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Farmer and Landlord Should Be Friends | 7/10/1987 | See Source »

...freedom, their pride, their names. The recruit who dares to hang some John Wayne sarcasm on the drill instructor will be called Joker (Matthew Modine). The guy from Texas will be dubbed Cowboy (Arliss Howard). Gomer Pyle is the name given to a fat bumpkin (Vincent D'Onofrio) whose dim-witted sanctity begs to be beaten into lean meat. The D.I. (Lee Ermey) will oblige. He will shape Pyle into an M-14 with a loaded magazine -- a full metal jacket. Then Pyle, like his sweetheart of a rifle, will go off. The killing machine will be fired too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Welcome To Viet Nam, the Movie: II FULL METAL JACKET | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Once again, nothing happened. North, it seems, lost Perot's money chasing a will-o'-the-wisp. He had authority, however; North's boss Robert McFarlane says President Reagan approved the first hostage-rescue plan, and Reagan has a dim recollection of some such conversation -- though he insists that he "never thought of that as ransom." Only garbled portions of the story have become public, but Republican Senator Paul Trible of Virginia, who has been looking into the affair, and Government officials involved helped TIME piece together this account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Falls for a Hostage Scam | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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