Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plunged immediately into an impenetrable, claustrophobic gloom, choked with smoke. A laser beam of sunlight fires through the darkness from a window the size of a Kenya five-shilling piece. It takes three minutes for the eyes to adjust and make out the dim outlines of one's friends sitting on short stools, knees near their chins, their eyes fixed dreamily on the coals of the cooking fire, their ruminative conversation interrupted by long silences...
What is not so clear but clearly pernicious is that students cannot benefit from the reform as fully as the administrators who would make use of the new body. In presenting a defense based on precedent, students, whose memories dim beyond four years, would be at a distinct disadvantage. Administrators, however, would be able to recall all of the body's decisions...
...invisible object piqued the interest of Berkeley Astronomer Hyron Spinrad, known for his studies of very dim, faraway galaxies and quasars. Last spring Spinrad and his team first pinpointed 3C 326.1's position with New Mexico's Very Large Array radio telescopes; then they aimed powerful optical telescopes at the spot and discovered a glowing object about 12 billion light- years from earth. Later analysis of light from 3C 326.1 revealed that it was a newborn galaxy, three times as long as the diameter of the Milky Way. At the time the light viewed by Spinrad left 3C 326.1, which...
...lowered federal spending make salary money scarcer, and recessions in some states have brought budget cuts at public universities (Utah, for example, will eliminate 95 faculty positions over the next three years). The result: with entrenched senior professors guarding the gateway to tenure, many junior professors are facing dim prospects and shaky job security. Meanwhile, many colleges are calling into question the concept of tenure itself...
...host of other solid performances surround these two central ones. Heather Gunn, as Constance, (or, as husband Wolfgang would have it, "Stanzel Wanzel") keeps up with Sullivan's playfulness and establishes an engaging presence of her own. Zak Klobucher, as the rather dim-witted Emperor Joseph, is suitably laughable; he delivers each and every line with sharply-pointed wit. The Venticelli (Dan Cloherty and Steve Lyne), with their expertly-timed dialogue, also deserve special mention...