Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been two decades since Network, and Hollywood still can't get over the venality and dim-wittedness of the TV business, despite the increasingly lame fall schedules it turns out every year. Never mind, because this satirical hour-long series about the shenanigans at a major network, LGT, is worth watching. There's even a beautiful, frighteningly ambitious development exec who would have got Faye Dunaway fired...
...friends in tent C-71 at Macedonia's Stenkovec camp. "How can Western leaders expect me to wake up and say good day to a Serb?" While K.L.A. officials are paying lip service to the deal, the likelihood of patching together a political structure for real cohabitation is dim...
...real national gay organization existed, and Vice President Walter Mondale haughtily left a 1977 speech after someone asked him when the Carter Administration would speak in favor of gay equality. To be young and realize you were gay in the 1970s was to await an adulthood encumbered with dim career prospects, fake wedding rings and darkened bar windows...
...mark the day. Pull out a photo album or a box of old pictures. Then help your children sort out the names and faces of people they've never met but would probably have enjoyed. Tell them stories about their family, even if you can dredge up only dim memories or anecdotes--like the one about my mother, who once found an alligator in the kitchen eating out of the cat's bowl. This is how they will learn that for better or worse, there is no family like theirs...
...Hubble telescope, which was used to measure the intensity of Cepheids in 18 different galaxies, can accurately see stars which are distant and dim...