Word: dimming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole, extremely good. They help make more than usually bearable the Pudding Show plot, which--no matter where or when it is set--always seems to come out the same: wicked, chesty baritone schemes to murder or domineer others as air-head, goldilocks daughter falls in love with dim-wit tenor. Serfs Up!'s Monty-Python-and-the-Holy-Grail setting--with dozens of "thou's" thrown in--provides plenty of comic soil for puns to take root in; but it doesn't materially affect the stock Pudding plot--even if there is a peasant revolution, nasal lords and ladies...
once took for granted has become a dim memory. Instead, the nation seems to have become stuck on a kind of jet-propelled merry-go-round that spins through faster and faster cycles of boom and bust, rising and falling interest rates and accelerating inflation...
...client sips a cup of peppermint tea, takes a shower, then pads along a plastic-covered carpet into a dim room lighted by two candles and filled with the soothing recorded sounds of wind chimes and bird chirps. He steps into a flotation tank and lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish...
...down a series of levels. The floors are black and polished; the rooms are lined with matte black sculptures, whose cellular structures, like nocturnal honeycombs or trued-up ants' nests, intensify the labyrinthine feel of the house. Because most of the shutters are closed, the light inside is dim, and even those objects that are not black seem to be. The place is a continuous collage, from the ground floor workrooms-a former garage filled with stacks of the owner's working material: wood slats, newel posts, balls, balusters, a hive of infinitely replicated fragments awaiting wholeness...
...community to appeal. A clause in the decision allows opponents to petition the agency for a rehearing-and community groups immediately took advantage of that. And, of course, there is always the option of going to court. But in either case, the outlook for overturning the decision is dim...