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...dim. A good-natured sportswriter who actually likes the bad pay and long road trips, Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney) is one of those guys who believe the unexamined life is the only one worth living...
...City, Mo., got a glimpse of hell: highways were closed, city streets were blocked, and police corralled hundreds of fans. In the video, author WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 84, whose nihilistic novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view of a rampant consumer culture (but they will happily sell you a CD!), frail Burroughs pushes a shopping cart out of the dead city. The band hopes to shoot two more videos during its PopMart tour in the U.S., says manager Paul McGuinness. Commuters, beware! The end is nigh...
...newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this is really a pretty shallow--and maybe unseemly--way for a grownup to make a living...
...actually didn't swear at all in high school; I never used that particular word in casual conversation or scrawled it on bathroom stalls. I didn't want overuse to dim the impact of that word in case I ever needed it. But in (good) writing, words are sacred, and each one counts, and each one is there for a reason...
...show they are still in business with another attack. "Sure, this is a serious defeat," says the Tupac Amaru's European spokeswoman Norma Velazco. "But it is not over yet." Peru's other, larger terrorist organization, Shining Path, would probably like to stage some other outrage to dim Fujimori's victory...