Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Registration will begin at 9 a.m. when the brawny and bronzed students enter the dim recesses of Mem Hall to sign dotted lines and collect course catalogues and bursar's cards crucial to their new year at Harvard...
...Morse code into a typewritten message. Boston Pediatrician Lawrence Reiner uses his machine to relax by playing TV games with his children. Robert Phillips, president of Gimix Inc., a Chicago firm that computerizes entire households, has installed terminals in every room of his Chicago apartment. He uses them to dim and brighten his lights, tune his stereo, turn his television on and off, even to open and close his drapes...
Family shows While The Waltons (CBS) fight off rural poverty in the South, The Fitzpatricks will soon battle the blue-collar blues up North. But not for long, most likely. The new CBS series about a struggling steelworker and his family looks like dim competition against ABC's Happy Days...
...wonderfully spooky, smoky Mystery Train, were arguably the best music Elvis ever made. The more familiar songs, like Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog and Don't Be Cruel are great tunes, joyful and sassy. They have become cultural artifacts, but no amount of historical respectability can fully dim their raucous vitality. They also represent a high point. Only four or five years after they came out, Presley's music had virtually become a patented mixture of heavy breathing and hokum...
...lights dim, a suggestive voice booms forth: "We ask your cooperation by not smoking ... anything ... in the theater." Then, amidst the tumble effaces on the various screens, can be seen Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando and John F. Kennedy as President. The gloom of Kennedy's assassination breaks the mood, but not for long, as Ed Sullivan can be seen in 1964 announcing, with a wave of the arm: "Ladies and gentlemen...