Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dim the lights and butter the popcorn. This is, after all, as Lucas keeps reminding us, a popcorn movie...
...pickin' up bad vibrations./ Watt's givin' me palpitations./ Gee whillikers, what a sensation." Such adulterated lyrics, until last week, would have meant little to Interior Secretary James Watt, 43, which, of course, was the problem. Watt, it seems, is a dim bulb when it comes to rock music. Otherwise why would he have tried to ban the wholesome harmonies of the Beach Boys from the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C.? The Beach Boys, announced Watt, attracted "the wrong element" at their last Fourth concert in 1981. The environmental impresario...
...carriers, boasting that it can do just as competent a job and make mailers "look good for less." Here is the U.S. Army invading the air waves with its stirring jingle, "Be all that you can be," aiming it especially at June high school and college graduates, who face dim job prospects even with their diplomas and degrees...
...vote, their future as a political force will depend on whether Vogel's Social Democrats maintain their leftward drift. In short, the Greens will disturb the West German political scene as long as there is room on the left for a new generation of skeptical citizens with a dim sense of the past and a hazy vision of the future. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gary Lee/Bonn
...legend of the man is safely sheltered these days behind high fences of respect. Were the real Washington on hand today, that might not be the case, and therein may lie a lesson. We have in this nation erected standards for our public people that dim anyone's glow if he or she falls short of perfection. It is reasonable, then, to wonder if people can enter public life and make a difference as they did in the first years of the Republic. Even as our expectations have grown, our respect for and sympathy with Presidents have diminished...