Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, the story of Western civilization is the search for a flashlight. Statues are built to those who can cast even dim light on the next few steps of our dark lives. Bach may have been the Fifth Apostle. In that case, the light would have come from his halo...
Independence came scarcely 20 years ago for Indonesians, and their erstwhile Dutch rulers are neither a dim nor a pleasant memory. Undaunted, peripatetic Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands paid a state visit to Djakarta -the first member of the royal family to do so in more than 130 years. Queen Juliana's 58-year-old consort came away with the nickname "Prince Charming." Kneeling before President Suharto after a state dinner, the Prince bent low and said farewell in traditional Javanese fashion, enclosing the President's hands in his own. Suharto burst into tears...
...stage someone has just blown a line. Someone covers quickly and they all just keep going, the momentum spins on. No time to stop until the lights dim and the act is over. Afterwards the performers scatter to the corners of the back room, and sit quietly with their various plaints. Senelick comes in talking to the prop girl. He stops to console it worried P??grim. After a minute he disengages, turns to the group, and adjusts his spectacles...
Women's-righters and antiwar protesters twitted her at some stops. "A few shouters cannot dim the glory of this day," she said in Lexington, Ky. As she filled her 14-hour days with visits to the poor, the blind, the retarded, the aged and the outcast, she emphasized: "I want to go where the action is." All Americans, she said, should "get on the bandwagon and help out in their communities...
...Taylor's house near Phoenix, people are seen hazily through glass or as dim reflections superimposed on living-room walls and furniture. Dialogue is non-existent or meaningless; Daria walks by chattering wives at the pool without being seen, retreating into a natural rock cavern leading to the house. Inside the house, two groups of businessmen stand on opposite ends of a transparent real-estate development map trying to bluff each other, their desperate quiet energy passing unhindered through the colored plastic. Emotions are unhesitatingly suppressed, language conceals obscure truths. Daria outside, unable to cry over Mark's death, plunges...