Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are 20 years old, some of them, and still sparkle. Most songs-pop songs generally, rock specifically-dim with age. The present can paralyze the past; anything off the charts sounds like an antique or a novelty item. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about a group of 48 previously unreleased Beatles performances, found in the BBC vaults and to be broadcast over the Memorial Day weekend on 350 stations, is their insistent presence. Old songs in the present tense, simple, lively and made of magic...
...Weinberger, the great David Lloyd. The Taxi characters were so much like us, and so good at it. The Sunshine Cab Co. was a place to work in that became a place to live in. And your co-workers became your friends: Alex the off-duty rabbi, and sweet dim Tony, and Latka the gentle schizoid. And Reverend Jim, phoning in his blissed-out wisdom from Planet X. And Elaine, the only woman, who desperately wanted to be somewhere else but couldn't leave the place she knew as home...
...tape and innumerable Mass Hall staff members, they have assured the existence of organs (like the ACSR) through which students can seek change within the Harvard system. If that system ceases to allow the modicum of student influence it does now, April 1972 may cease to be just a dim memory--and instead become a blueprint for a new generation of activists...
...space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism and unfulfilled longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with...
...Lights dim. Three people raise their hands in the air. Funereal music resounds as the three spread out over the stage. Spray of machine-gun fire. The hands and arms extend over their heads. Darkness...