Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dusk settled over the heart of Roxbury at 5:30 p.m., Allen was still waiving her sign and politicking with the last wave of voters...
...could see this haunted house, you would note how sad and uncomfortable it makes you feel. The place is destroyed and not destroyed; it is both the ghost and the living thing. Its overgrown lawn is as thick as thatch. Its chimney tips like a cocked hat. At dusk its side wall, blasted by the dying autumn light, shows in a fierce and pathetic white--a burn victim in a sheet...
...Here too is Caesars Palace, looking like the architectural dream of an illiterate Mussolini; and alongside it are the Forum Shops at Caesars, a sort of baroque moon colony completely sealed off from the outside world, with computer-controlled sky effects that cycle from rosy-fingered dawn to purple dusk on the roof vaults above, and pastiche Roman statuary, and outlets for every brand name you ever heard of: Gap, DKNY, Gucci, Sharper Image, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein...
...invisibility beside those neon signs and huge, crass, mock-Hellenistic sculptures. Nothing a mere environmental sculptor could make would have much luck in drawing the eye away from, say, the outside of the Mirage, with its foaming waterfalls and its artificial volcano that erupts on a regular schedule after dusk, except when (a sign informs you) the weather is "inclement," a condition that will be signaled by a red warning light in case you didn't feel the rain on your head...
Though the park is open to the public 365 days a year from dawn to dusk, the urban forests' visitor's center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and noon to 4 p.m. on weekends. The Arboretum is located one block northeast from the Forest Hills end of the orange line. But leave lunch at home--picnics, fires and barbecues are prohibited...