Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moves to the rear of the control room, glances at a panel with such legends as FEED-WATER PUMP FAILURE, STEAM-LINE RUPTURE and RELIEF-VALVE FAILURE, and presses a button. The effect is jarring. Alarms give off an almost hysterical shrill. Control-panel lights flash, and overhead lights dim. He has simulated the rupture of a 21-in.-diameter water line, which can empty the reactor of vital cooling water in less than a minute...
...addition, the April balance of payments showed a healthy $1.1 billion surplus. Yet many forecasters are beginning to take a dim view of 1979's second half, largely because of the gathering oil crisis...
...Enid, tornado sirens begin to shriek with an otherworldly howl. The sky is now black as night. Only a dim outline of the horizon betrays the threatening shape of the cloud formations. Several cars fish tail dangerously down the flooded streets. From the radio an announcer yells: "Take shelter! Get downstairs!" He adds that a tornado has just destroyed mobile homes west of town...
...most of the voters she accosts appear more concerned about jobs and high living costs than the party's proposal for a workers' militia to replace the British bobby and its jeremiads against capitalism and the monarchy. Even for such an illustrious candidate, prospects thus appear dim; running in a heavily left-wing London district for the W.R.P. five years ago, Redgrave captured fewer than 600 of the 39,036 votes cast. Never mind. Insists Redgrave: "Socialist principles are more important than votes...
...interviewer who has dropped out to do some soul searching in Southern California; a woman writer with the disconcerting habit of throwing her voice at crucial emotional moments; a dim-bulb movie star and her producer paramour, who keeps his wealth in a sock drawer and begins too many sentences with the phrase entre nous: these are the featured players in New York Disc Jockey Jonathan Schwartz's resonant first novel. At a glance, it may seem another tour of Joan Didion's empty existential horizons -damaged people failing to communicate in a dry land. But Schwartz...