Word: dusk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year's Eve, a day the Kennedys spent celebrating the fact that another bad year had finally ended. The family measures misfortune on its own scale; the terrible years have ended in violent death, the merely bad years are defined by crimes and misdemeanors. Right up until dusk on the very last day of 1997, this looked to be the latter. The worst moments of the year were more tawdry than tragic, though bad enough to derail Michael's promising political career. During his years running the nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., and helping his Uncle Ted win a tough Senate...
...deer, the full-size antlered stag I saw the other day at dusk, as I was walking down the main street of our village. Suddenly he stepped out of a driveway, looked about to panic, saw it was only me and trotted, head high, down the center of the street...
...Raccoon with Wrecked Car" and all the photographs in the Manscapes series, are taken at dusk or dawn using an unconcealed flash, giving the animals a startled quality and imparting the images with surreal color. The contrasts created between colors emphasizes the contrasts between the animal and human worlds...
...years in uniform, he resigned his commission to write full time. Hollywood beckoned--he scripted one of Robert Redford's early hits, Downhill Racer--but Salter eventually retreated to Colorado and New York's Long Island to concentrate on his meticulously crafted novels and short fiction. (A collection, Dusk and Other Stories, won the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award, and his 1956 novel, The Hunters, was recently reprinted by Counterpoint Press...
...played baseball until dusk, and then I read. I read before dinner, after dinner, even during dinner if my sister and I were feuding. (The pages of certain volumes from my childhood are maroon with catsup stains.) When I was especially tired or restless, I reread, with the result that I can still recite passages of Johnny Tremain and The Willie Mays Story from memory...