"The performance is over," she says, raising her arms, "like wings, as the scene dims out".
"Apparently he'd been dimed out by somebody as being an insurgent," Specialist Chrystal said.
"It achieved other things in the sense that these guys are now trying to figure out what happened, trying to figure out who dimed out who, and there's a certain amount of confusion there".
Mr. Miller remembered worrying in 1949 that "there was too much identification with Willy, too much weeping, and that the play's ironies were being dimmed out by all this empathy".
More recently, the Bush administration used the same argument to justify its warrantless wiretaps of targets' communications and its successful bid to excuse the telecoms that dimed out their customers.
Lets discuss the implementation of the scenario in which the entertainment center plays a movie, dims out the lights and closes the window shade.
One of them is one that turns out the lamp on the corner, closes the window shade, and dims out the lights in the room whenever the home entertainment center is playing a movie.
To that list you might add a few more shooting stars, companies that had their moment in the public's imagination, then either dimmed out or exploded: Fairchild Semiconductor, Atari, Commodore, Tandem, Silicon Graphics and National Semiconductor.
When an object with no atmosphere moves in front of a star, the star abruptly disappears; in the case of Pluto, the star dimmed out gradually.
The clatter of their surroundings dims out, and they begin to speak directly into the camera in a deliberately regional accent, pausing for thought between each sentence.
