Word: dimmer
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...first room of the Museum of Fine Arts’ (MFA) sprawling Ansel Adams exhibit, “Early Work,” is the most enthralling. Prints framed in darker wood, mounted on grayer walls, and lit by dimmer lighting evoke the great American landscape photographer in his teens and twenties struggling to find the most direct and honest way to express his sense of awe on trips to Yosemite and elsewhere in the Western wilderness.Adams made these first few dozen prints in the pictorialist style of his contemporaries, for whom photography didn’t inherently qualify...
...polished English shoes…glistened in the dim light”—when, in fact, they might not have been highly polished (nor English, for that matter)? No. But as Wright blurs fact and fiction, the glisten of his highly polished prose grows ever-so-slightly dimmer.—Staff writer Daniel J. Hemel can be reached at hemel@fas.harvard.edu.William Wright: Out of the BackgroundWilliam Wright was—in his own words—“desperate for a book idea.” It was more than three years since the publication...
...festival, which annually features celebrity speakers, was a little dimmer in star wattage compared to years past. Previous attendees have included Oliver Stone, Adrien Brody, and Tim Robbins. The more low-key speakers that attended this year’s fest included “Meet the Parents” screenwriter John Hamburg and Ellen Kuras, the cinematographer for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
...Dimmer Glimmer CHECHNYA Rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov's declaration of a unilateral truce earlier this month brought a ray of hope in the brutal 10-year war with Russia. Maskhadov said he wanted to start peace talks with the Kremlin and involve the international community in negotiating an end to the fighting. Thus far, Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained silent, sparking fears of fresh terrorist attacks when the truce expires...
...seems to be a thin, frozen crust over a smoother, softer layer. "Kind of a creme brulee consistency," says John Zarnecki, a principal science investigator. The atmosphere produces plenty of wind and weather, and there is even a flicker of a greenhouse effect, but with sunlight a thousand times dimmer than on Earth, it doesn't amount to much...