Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of robberies linked to an arms-smuggling scheme (don't ask how or why); the music-video montages of the good life in Beverly Hills alternating with sudden descents into motiveless and entirely humorless violence; the none-too-subtle maneuverings to bring Murphy into contact with variously dim figures who can be run over by his motor mouth; the police colleague-foils, who, besides Reinhold, include John Ashton and Ronny Cox and whose chief function is to shake their heads bemusedly over Murphy's improvisational nerve and witty, if occasionally obscene, sayings...
...FIRST it wasn't so bad--restful, really, lying there in the dim light with people doing theatrical things all around me. Occasionally I'd open the eye on the opposite side of my face from the audience for a worm's eye view of Stoppard, which I enjoyed. The floor was hard and my nose itched, but I consoled myself with the reflection that art is, ultimately, sacrifice. Then I heard the couch behind me begin to move...
Senior Paul Kent, a bright spot in a dim year for the Crimson, was the team's only first-place finisher. Kent captured the 1500-meter run with a time...
...lights are dim, as I sweep up a pile of beer cans, broken exacto knives, empty coffee cups and cigarette butts. I am the janitor for What Is To Be Done? and the editors left me here to write this week's notes. It is up to me to inform you that this will be the last magazine until September, as my generous employers are going on their well deserved summer vacations. Jenn Mnookin will be summering in Paris, eating "Croissan'wiches" in French Burger Kings. Maia Harris will travel to exotic California to help the impoverished...
Pippert, who recalls that, "In about the sixth grade, for reasons now dim in my memory, I decided to be a reporter," has covered two state capitals, three presidential campaigns, two White House administrations, Watergate, Congress and the Middle East...