Word: dimmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...realized, Bill Clinton may have typified a younger generation's response to this intense lesson from another world, another war. It was as if he had long been an indifferent son, blanking out for decades a nation's old war stories, then waking suddenly to the heroics of a dim past and wanting to go back to nurture the memories and understand them better...
Light and sound are, of course, the building blocks of any movie, and "Germinal" is no exception. Deprivation of the former and an incessance of the latter combine to make this movie a misery. The audience is constantly thrust into the dim pits of the mine, lighted only by occasional hell-fires, and thrown into unillumined cottages with at most a single candle burning in the corner. By the end of the film, everyone in the audience is not only familiar with the nuances of pre-electric lighting but feel that they have experienced it first hand. The movie grates...
...Rock West belongs to that genre's low-budget country-and-western subspecies. Michael is a classic film noir protagonist, essentially a good, slightly dim sort who is drawn into evil's web because of a momentary weakness and whose struggles to escape serve only to entangle him more tightly. In film noir, the spider at the center of such a web is usually a woman, and in this case she is Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael's intended victim. After he spares her, she expresses her gratitude by luring him still nearer to destruction. Film noir also typically calls...
...timers in Huntsville, Texas, like to tell tales of public hangings and lynchings at the turn of the century and to reminisce about how, on execution nights at The Walls state prison, the lights would often flicker and dim across town, a signal that the electric chair on the hill was doing its work yet again. Whether these stories are apocryphal or not, the sentiment in favor of the death penalty remains overwhelming in Huntsville, even though many townspeople are uncomfortable with their community's distinction as the execution capital of the U.S. Last year the state of Texas...
...effortlessly almost to the place that escapes us while engaged in the business of living. where time is moving. In telling stories, Mr. McGahern lets us think we can see time, or love, or pain, or life, even if all we may really see is an unhappy man or dim pub room...