Word: dimming
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...that Brian and I transmit from the temporary media filing area, a dim restaurant called Buddy's, as the reporters eat ribs and send in their stories and the piped-in sound of Gore's rally speech makes Joe Lieberman sound strangely like Winston Churchill. As Lieberman says, only in America...
...this week is clear. Unless he uses the convention to persuade white male voters that he is, as they say of his running mate, Joe Lieberman, a mensch - and, since Gore is top man, even more of a mensch than Lieberman - then his chances in November start to get dim...
...Colony housing projects of South Boston, on 8 Patterson Way. My apartment's exterior, on 490 Pilsudski Way, is identical to his and the other two dozen or so squat brick buildings that make up the Old Colony projects. As I sit on the futon, squinting in the dim light to make out the words of his best-selling memoir All Souls, the familiar street names and locations seem to jump out at me. Outside, I can hear the children playing and adults chatting on stoops, just as they have done for decades...
...next slows and eventually ceases. And sadly--as anyone who has ever watched a parent, a sibling, a spouse succumb to the spreading darkness knows--there is no way to stop the lights from turning off, no way to switch them back on once they've grown dim. At least...
...Moose, in his amiable, lunkhead way, remains perversely optimistic about the future. But Rocky has developed a psychosomatic inability to fly. Luckily for them, in far-off Hollywood a development girl (Janeane Garofalo) dreams of a feature film that will restore their fortunes. Carl Reiner's studio boss is dim on that--"I hate moose movies," he snarls, in one of the film's many self-referential lines, a tradition that was one of the hip glories of the original TV show. But by this time an actual movie, directed by Des McAnuff and written by Kenneth Lonergan...