Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-term prognosis for the tiny automaker is dim. Although it has specialized in small cars for more than 25 years, "AMC has never had the capital to design autos that were technologically competitive. Today it has just 1.7% of the U.S. market. AMC's only new models this year are the Renault 181, which it is importing from France, and a four-wheel-drive subcompact. By 1982 AMC may be phasing out the existing subcompact Spirit and compact Concord, leaving it with a Renault-designed small car to be built at its only surviving passenger car plant...
...labored to assure the ruling class that life was indeed worth living. For two centuries this way of life flourished, only to fall victim to war, inflation and the refusal of the lower orders to go on tugging their forelocks. There are a few survivors who still remember the dim and faded glory of the English country house, but for most of us this book of photographs will have to do. In fact, it does very nicely, with just enough text by Author Christopher Simon Sykes to explain the pictures but not enough to smother them with sociology...
Western palates have long feasted on such Chinese dishes as Peking duck and dim sum. Now, at last, the Chinese will be able to sample such sometimes questionable Western delicacies as white bread, doughnuts and perhaps eventually shortcake. The People's Republic of China next summer will open an American-style demonstration bakery in Peking. The goal: to give the Chinese a quick Western alternative to time-consuming products like boiled rice and hand-shaped noodles...
...best thing about this film is that it has the courage of its own pretentiousness. This may seem dim praise, but it is not. The Stunt Man is not so much sophomoric, with its implications of false sophistication, as it is freshmanic: the movie delights in the play of ideas and in its own unsuspected ability to play fast, loose and funny with them. It is refreshing to see a movie that sends ideas instead of autos crashing headon...
Pssst... Don't tell anyone, but Princeton first singles player Jay Lapidus sweats. You'd never know it if you watch him from the dim confines of the Palmer-Dixon stands, but if you get down close you can see that the Tiger ace does in fact exert at least a little effort...