Word: crepuscular
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This bit of crepuscular enlightenment is Robinson Crusoe glazed with contemporary revisions. Here a hapless Crusoe (Peter O'Toole) is portrayed as an overbearing racist. He may be clever enough at fending for himself alone on the island, but human companionship brings out the worst in him. When Friday (Richard Roundtree) and some cannibal friends wash ashore on "his" island, Crusoe dispatches them one by one. Soon only Friday is left, and Crusoe is about to slay him when the black man instinctively adopts the one pose that will save him from the white man's wrath...
Frazier's rhetorical flights carry readers past such disquieting polysyllables as "crepuscular," "demetry" and "blevins." The last, as hundreds of Bostonians discovered after vainly combing the dictionary, is no word at all, but a typographical error. Frazier meant Bruins, the name of the city's ice hockey team. The point is not that some Herald hand faltered, but that Frazier followers faithfully went on a blevins hunt...
...porthole-sized gaps in his anatomy, holding a staff topped with a mostly black butterfly. This, said Dali in an explanatory blurb, "portrays human anxiety." Next on the way "toward a harmonious tranquillity" came a diaphanous female figure with a winged-egg head, who carried a staff with a crepuscular moth. The third figure was what Dali called "the true butterfly of tranquillity"-a maiden in yellow, with a head composed of blue, red and yellow flowers. For a finale, there was another maiden (with real hair) skipping rope on the way to the promised land of tranquillity...
Local Color (Mose Allison Trio; Prestige). Pianist-Composer Mose Allison grew up in a dusty, crossroads Mississippi town, and this album tells a lot about it. The selections-Carnival, Mojo Woman, Crepuscular Air-have an engaging funky, blues-flavored quality, abetted by some light and witty Allison solo flights on the piano. Among the most successful is a swinging, wryly humorous ballad about a misunderstood wife-slayer at "the Parchman Farm" who passes his time "puttin' that cotton in a 'leven foot sack/With a 12-gauge shotgun at [his] back...
Cornell band members leave Ithaca at 7:15 a.m. this morning in four busses. They hope to arrive at Boston's Hotel Brunswick at 7 p.m., getting a good night's sleep before their crepuscular Yard sortie...