Word: dimness
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Highlight Reel 1. Journey: "Don't Stop Believing," 1981 "You can tell something about a person's relationship to popular music as a whole by how they feel about this song. Generally, people fall into two camps. If they have at one time considered it a "guilty pleasure," a dim-witted power ballad made by guys with bad haircuts to be enjoyed despite its inherent cheesiness, they probably identify most with indie music of some stripe. If they just plain like it and always have, then they've probably spent their lives enjoying whatever was on the radio...
...Marty Scorsese turned to me - he was sitting in front of me at the premiere - and he turned around and said, Steven, this is a magnificent film, but be prepared, because Hollywood is going to hate this film, because it's about them.' [Producer Martin Bregman] concurred about the dim view his colleagues took of the film: 'Scorsese was right. Hollywood did hate it, hated it. We were looked at as though we were dragging filth into their living rooms...
...October 30, 1938. A Sunday night. About 8 p.m. You're sitting in your living room. Possibly in an easy chair. Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some...
...Vlad and Elena are humorously long. Descriptions are extended to fantastic lengths. The intentional theatrics beg for a clever use of lighting and set, which the A.R.T. and director Anne Kauffman readily provide.Asides, fantasies, and chaos are depicted satisfyingly by skillful adjustments of the stage. During monologues, the lights dim save for a single spotlight on the speaker. Projected words on a white banner at the back of the stage present the date or the location, or the depiction of imaginary events, allowing the three large square backdrops to be moved around and create the rest of the spectacle.There...
...actions to encourage social embrace of environmentalism are in line with its words. The university should seize this momentum to inspire an environemtnal conscience in its community. The enduring mission after the Sustainability Celebration ought to be ensuring that this spotlight on environmental responsibility doesn’t dim...