Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beclch, by Rochelle Owens. Whether bright or dim, there are more lights in the theatrical firmament than those that gleam on the marquees on Broadway or off. Last week Philadelphia was host to a new drama of serious intent. As the playgoer enters the Theater of the Living Arts, he hears a soundtrack from nature as raucous and insidious as the din of city traffic. Cockatoos screech and hippopotamuses snort. Over the stage stretch tangled plastic vines. On the walls are murky film blowups of lions, elephants and monkeys. A combination of bamboo palace and automobile graveyard...
...Dim Prospects. Underlying these strange rites was the hope that when cures for cancer are discovered, Bedford's body could be thawed out, cured, and restored to healthy life. This hope has been fostered by Robert C. W. Ettinger, a physics teacher at a Michigan junior college, in his book The Prospect of Immortality (TIME, Sept...
ELECTRA: "Farnsworth Room." Soft chairs, dim lights, nice view. Only one or two people in there. Fifth floor, west, right? Got that, Steph? Steph? Where's Steph...
Presbyterian leaders answer that the confession adopted has been approved in principle by the church's last two General Assemblies. They also point out that the committee's chances of defeating the confession are rather dim. Be fore adoption by the General Assembly next May, the confession must be ratified by two-thirds of the 188 presbyteries. So far, 25 of them have taken votes; only two have turned it down...
...problem with Cinerama is that the movie is invariably anticlimactic after the unveiling of the screen. You sit in the immense red-upholstered theatre listening to a six-track stereophonic overture, surrounded by a 160 degree are of curtain. The overture fades, the lights dim, and as the projectors start to roll, the red curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curtain majestically opens, revealing the screen. And the screen doesn't stop; it fills a wall and keeps going past it, curving until it begins...