Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resemblance, as everyone in The Freshman keeps remarking, is striking. In certain lights, especially dim ones, Carmine Sabatini looks uncannily like Don Vito Corleone, the Godfather of blessed movie memory...
Even fans of rap music may find it hard to rally around Nasty, a danceable but dim-witted pop product that relies on countless descriptions of oral sex and genitalia, not to mention a knuckle-sandwich approach to women. But the moves against 2 Live Crew come on top of the obscenity charges against the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati for mounting a show of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's work. Artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians have to wonder whether these actions herald an anti-obscenity campaign that could send them scrambling for cover...
THEATER: Three to the rescue of a dim London season...
...Pensions are fat and perks numerous. Then there are the unspent campaign kitties: Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the man who shapes the tax laws, has a political slush fund of $1 million, which he can legally keep if he retires. Risky times are dim memories for these...
...Speaker, small-time heroin peddler and barker for the Blue Note Lounge, a scumbucket strip joint in San Francisco's Tenderloin. The home is prison, out of which he is not likely to stay long. This is partly because his dim sidekick Rooski foolishly shot a Chinese druggist when the two of them were fumbling what was supposed to be a peaceful, harmless burglary. The main reason is that Joe belongs in jail, feels comfortable there. Not secure, understand, because dope selling in the lockup is even tougher than it is on the streets. Everyone there is a villain...