Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Shultz and lawmakers tangle, the prospects for aid dim...
Certainly the play's atmosphere should be gloomy and oppressive, but the production's musical effects are extraneous and downright silly. At the close of each scene, the lights dim, and the family exits with Mary creeping off in her ghostly white gown. A spooky cadence of piano notes smooths the transition to the next scene. Whatever this discordant clanging is meant to represent--Mary's crippled hands, crippled hopes?--it diverts the audience's attention from the play's fluidity and haunting themes...
With a total of eight medals, four gold, the most hopeful U.S. team had the smallest yield in twelve years. But if the numbers were dim, the moments were bright, and the attitude of the least eminent athletes from the quietest sports added to that. "Up in the air, I was ecstatic, I could tell I had a good jump," cried Jeff Hastings of the U.S., still aloft after finishing fourth in the 90-meter jump. According to their own scale of accomplishments, people doing their best rejoiced. There was enough happiness in the Olympics. No need to want anything...
They paused for only a moment, most of them, in those dim, drafty, primitively equipped studios on the far fringes of the motion-picture industry. They did their gigs, these black performers, without hope that they might somehow break through to the great white audience or achieve the dream of immortality. Their pressing concern was whether the producer's minuscule check was going to bounce. They passed into history not as indelible screen images but as fond, fading, sometimes discomfiting memories shared by a minority audience or, in a few cases, as distant rumors of great talent whispered...
...hero of liberal Soviet intellectuals for his bold poems condemning anti-Semitism (Babi Yar) and Stalin's reign of terror (The Heirs of Stalin), many of which he recited on poetry-reading tours of the West. Beginning in the late 1960s, Yevtushenko's dissident fire seemed to dim, as he churned out "official" verse celebrating Soviet workers and attacking...