Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book casts dim light on the life of John Belushi...
Competing games, of course, would further dim the symbolic flame of the official Olympics. That flame already is flickering low in the political winds that have been gusting for at least the past dozen years. The Los Angeles Games will be the fifth in a row marred by politics. The unhappy sequence began with riots outside and a black-power salute by U.S. athletes inside the 1968 Games in Mexico City and the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Games in Munich. It continued in 1976 with the boycott at the Olympiad in Montreal by black...
When the troops began to call the townsfolk "Bennies" (after a good-natured but dim-witted character on a popular British soap opera), the islanders picked up the name, which they now use more often than the time-honored "Kelpers" (after the seaweed that they once harvested). Locals, in turn, call the British soldiers "Whennies" because of their tendency to go on at boring length about the time "when I was in Belfast" or "when I was on Cyprus." Although occasional fistfights break out on Saturday nights in Port Stanley's pubs, an officer notes that "relations with...
...their long, languorous layover in Tahiti. Inevitably the shades of these wild, rich performances (and the fantasy of what might have been had they been combined in a single film) hover over The Bounty, which tips the balance of interest back to Bligh again but somehow manages to dim both characters into incomprehensibility...
...Register's weaknesses include drab coverage of culture and lifestyles, dismally cluttered section fronts and dim, grainy photos. Although Editor James Gannon, 44, is highly regarded as a political analyst and Corporate President Michael Gartner, 45, is a syndicated columnist on language and usage, much of the writing in the Register is flat. One notable exception: the paper's strongly worded editorial page. During the past couple of years, the paper has been burdened by corporate skirmishing among the owners, the Cowles family...