Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...segment of voters. Everybody remembers how he went out of his way to alienate audiences, attacking TVA in Tennessee, medicare in front of Florida pensioners, and the President's anti-poverty campaign in the depressed, eleven-state Appalachian region. Now, as his prospects of election became dimmer and dim mer, he sounded wilder and wilder in his charges against the Johnson Administration...
According to Brown's estimate, the 10,000 cubic parsecs* of space around the sun contain about 1,000 visible stars. Most of them are comparatively small; the smaller and dimmer being the most numerous. But stars that are too small and dim cannot be seen un less they are very near the earth, so their apparent number is low. If they are slightly smaller still, they give no light and cannot be seen...
...moves again, and this time an eye peers out from under it. "Let's go!" a voice cries hoarsely, and in rapid succession three men (Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...
...Cambodian legend, is almost the same as the story of Orpheus. The lovers themselves (Sam El and Narie Hem) are even more beautiful than the lovers in the earlier film-they look like oriental deities sculptured in living flesh. The color is rich and sensuous, and the camera catches dim disturbing glimpses of Angkor Wat, the great stone temple that lies sleeping in the jungles of Cambodia like a monstrous unimaginable spider...
...Boston Traveler's Jim Dobbins, who sketches a scrawny Barry, says, "I like to show him as a weakling." Such strident convictions can dim a man's appreciation for his own art. "I'm not happy with my Goldwater," says the Miami News's Don Wright, "but then I'm not happy with Goldwater, period...