Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...
...course, the atmosphere is not made of air. The dim lighting suffuses into all corners of the roomy dining area, leaving little to the imagination, and picture windows look out over a nearby park, reminding the clients of the world beyond. The owners have decorated the dining room with relics to provide the establishment with a more authentic air. Various statues with religious themes are displayed around the room, and the gold and red color scheme is done tastefully enough to satisfy even the most picky grandmother...
...admitting that they are closet contact-lens wearers. Friends began to complain how their vacation time would be dominated by trips to the optometrist and to pick out frames. My poor vision, for once, was not at fault; that number of eyes cannot be wrong. Harvard dorms are dangerously dim and campus vision is at stake...
...Such dim wattage for high-powered learning cannot be attributed to mere burned-out bulbs. The problem exists across campus and may even stretch to other colleges. A friend at Amherst told me that a housing administrator admitted to him that dorm room lights were only supposed to be sufficient to find the switch for another light. If this is also the case at Harvard, a serious ocular injustice is occurring here. We may not need cable TV, and we now have two-ply toilet paper, but we desperately need light...
...ingenious system begins to falter, my room returns to its normal dim self. The light has become a yellow that isn't quite white and at times even seems brown--which is a lot like black. The darkness is creeping in, leaving me squinting inches from the page. Extensive searches of the halogen bulbs and considerations of the (negligible) overhead brightness have come up with nothing. I am beginning to worry that I too will see my optometrist next week and he will strengthen my prescription...