Mr. Wodicka envisions the Burt of A.D. 1965, teaching school and trying unsuccessfully to hand out copies of the Magna Carta to his students, leading a dim workaday life that Kitty would soon brighten.
The playwright Will Eno recited his monologue "Interview," with flickering gestures and a wide-eyed, cheeky stare, throwing out revelations such as "I was sort of soundproof as a child," "I've always been interested in magnetic refrigerator poetry," and "Everything gets so dim in life".
With the newspaper strike public events grew dim but daily life took on a lost freshness.
Nevertheless, the absence of any surface fluid, atmosphere, or liquid to cycle matter and energy makes prospects for life dim.
And it was out of his college dorm that he started a record label that would come to define the next two decades of his life: Dim Mak.
"It was to some extent informed by my years in Indonesia, seeing extreme poverty and disparities of wealth and understanding sort of in a dim way that life wasn't fair and government had something to do with it.
Duguid likes the buzz of Toronto life — dim sum with friends, a morning at the museum, her weekly belly-dance classes, the pleasure of being anonymous in a big city.
And so one turns to Dick Teresi's new book with considerable hope: Surely Mr. Teresi, a veteran science journalist, past editor in chief of Science Digest and Omni, will be the ideal guide through those dim purgatories where life and death can be difficult to distinguish.
Dim prospects for life aside, experts are excited.
My imagination could no longer access my past and could only work from images of my dim, narrow prison life.
