Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that George Bush, the heir-elect, looks out over the nation and raptly muses about a thousand points of light, savoring the phrase, if not quite understanding it. He did not add that the lights are shining into corners that have grown bleak and dim in the past eight years. And he got the numbers wrong. Out of sight of the Rose Garden, something like 80 million individuals are doing whatever they can to address the problems that politicians are fleeing...
...everything about this glum and self-important adaptation of Anne Tyler's upper-cute novel is dim. Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) knows how to get Edward on and off screen effectively, but he is far less witty and adroit with his nominal stars. Dim too is the judgment of the New York Film Critics Circle, which last week named Tourist best English- language picture of the year...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are Twins. Leslie Nielsen' s dim detective in The Naked Gun is a heroic twit. Both films offer dollops of undemanding holiday...
...familiar picture of the plodding, cold-blooded, dim-witted dinosaur inching his way through steamy swamps may look nice in coloring books and Saturday morning cartoons, but according to a leading paleontologist who spoke last night at Yenching Library, scholars in the field should know better...
When the play opens the lights come up on the living room of the Chamberlaynes. The dim lights, the cozy chairs and the attractive coffee table all do a tremendous job transforming the impersonal Mather House TV room into a semi-fashionable living space. The characters, members of a seemingly elite social set, chat amiably about basically inconsequential matters...