Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Journalists have long joked that the headline MIDEAST PEACE HOPES DIM could run over a story written today, next year or, probably, in A.D. 2030. That may no longer be the case. As the intermittent Israeli-Arab talks that began in Madrid 10 months ago resumed in Washington, Palestinians and representatives of Israel's new Labor-led government got down to serious discussions over a substantive matter: how a proposed elected council might be empowered to bring a measure of self-government to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Eager to tone down animosity, Jerusalem's negotiators have...
...Elizabeth von Arnim. She wrote Enchanted April nearly 70 years ago, around the time Virginia Woolf was lobbying for a room of her own. Von Arnim thought bigger: Why not a villa? Bring four restless Englishwomen to a castle near Portofino to shake off London's damp climate and dim proprieties...
...bathhouses where AIDS was spread by promiscuous, unprotected sex have been closed in many cities, either by government crackdown or just by a declining marketplace. The same thing happened to most of the "back room" bars where, in dim or unlit areas, patrons had anonymous sex. But at some establishments the era of reckless abandon never ended, and at others it is coming back...
When mild mannered classical archaeology concentrator David Rogers '92 left Harvard, and took his high-caliber comic strip "Dim Wits" along with him, The crimson had to fill the void with several syndicated strips. Although it was high praise for Rogers that his strip could only be replaced with several professional ones, many readers were confronted with a serious question. "What the heck is this Dilbert...
...although not all of the strips are currently living up to their potential, they're Still a fine selection of the industry's talent, each black and white gems of sequential art worthy of replacing the home grow Dim Wits...