Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wilbur's "Leaving," for example, moves adroitly from the specific to the universal. A couple depart from a garden party at dusk and stumble slowly into a perception of the pageant of humanity...
...valley is halted halfway up the surrounding mountains by a wavy line of thick rain forest. It is ideal guerrilla cover, and the contras have used it to put Pantasma under a siege that has lifted only as the truce has taken hold, and then just partly. A dusk-to-dawn curfew continues, and government troops still patrol the winding mountain roads leading into Pantasma...
...part of the problem. His failings were those of the young -- indecision during critical times, a desire to please too many people, and insecurity about his age. He did not capitalize on what could have been his biggest asset -- the vigor that stood in contrast to the sclerotic dusk of the Reagan era. He bottled up his puckish humor and came off as stiff. He eschewed well-tailored suits that could have turned him into a hip-looking heartthrob with a brain, preferring a conservative blue outfit that made him look less a candidate for President than the pilot...
...mild October. But then the temperatures dropped, and the cold at dusk had the first wolf of winter...
When the sun sets on an empire, who will turn on the lamplights? Or will the fading sky be illuminated by the torches of revolution and anarchy? In South Africa, white rulers desperately hold back the dusk with brutal measures that amount to the imposition of triple daylight saving time. But they can't hold back the clock; night and a new, black dawn are surely imminent. In Britain the empire has collapsed upon itself. A long generation ago the colonists came home, followed by their colonials -- dark skins, quick minds and rebellious hearts from the East and West Indies...