Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia Story, in case anybody missed the film, is about romantic entanglements. Specifically those of dim-witted Philadelphia socialite Tracy Lord (Sarah Halper) and the two men who want her attention: George Kittredge (John Frost), Tracy's ex-husband and, by the end, everybody's hero...
...protested controversial ruling- party victories in Chihuahua elections by staging a 40-day hunger strike and organizing sit-ins on highways and bridges that tied up traffic across the Rio Grande. Alvarez acknowledges that under the current system no P.A.N. candidate can seriously hope to be President, but dim prospects do not soften his rhetoric. "How could we possibly do worse?" he asks. "This government is inefficient, corrupt and has brought the country to disaster...
...bitter. I wish Raymundo all the best in his pursuit of his hard-earned winnings. And I hope Meg has finally found the place of final peace that I used to hope she would. For Rutger Fury, the quest 'for heiress' millions is a thing of the past, a dim memory in the tableau of life...
...defense also based its case on the contention that spying for Israel, a close U.S. ally, was fundamentally different from spying for, say, the Soviet Union and that nobody could prove Pollard's actions had actually harmed his country. The prosecution took a dim view of that argument. Explains John Martin, the Justice Department's chief of internal security: "God forbid that the day should come when we would have the burden of showing that not only did a spy give up information on nuclear weapons but that those weapons were used under hostile conditions...
Have you heard? There's a Belgian beer that makes you impotent, the Chinese once caught President Nixon pocketing a priceless teacup, and dim-witted ecologists are renting airplanes to drop poisonous snakes on the forests of France...