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...high-romantic imagination, he is in thrall to the memories of a young girl (Diana Van Der Vlis) he waltzed with 17 years ago. St. Pé's dream girl appears, only to run off with his callow aide, and the general is left alone in the dusk...
...Ocean, the graceful symmetry of this immaculately tended course is broken only by clumps of grotesquely gnarled cypress. Behind the 122-yd. third hole stands a solitary wooden bench beneath an enormous royal palm where President Nixon -who seldom plays the course-likes to sit in private tranquillity at dusk...
...feel that the Pentagon's normal channels of secrecy would sufficiently guard the Cambodia bombing. Major Knight said that bombing orders in sealed, unmarked envelopes were secretly flown from Saigon by propeller-driven courier aircraft each afternoon before a raid. They were kept under lock and key until dusk-the missions were flown at night to avoid detection-then transmitted by radio to the approaching...
While the talks went on, Beirut remained under martial law. At the end of the dusk-to-dawn curfew, traffic snarled into monster tangles at checkpoints, as soldiers scanned cardboard lists of suspect license numbers. Crowds were forbidden to gather, and even the pinball parlors (the latest craze in Beirut) were closed. In a government security drive, scores of people were arrested. The government also deported hundreds of foreigners, mostly Syrians, who lacked residence permits...
...been stifled in this apartment for so long, you too would remember all its soiled and tattered furnishings. The potential weight of this massive set dissolves under Donnally Miller's lighting. By highlighting or spotlighting the actors, he at once casts most of the state into the dusk of memory and infuses the room with the state of mind the actors are projecting. Thus as Tom silently apologizes to Laura just after he has taunted and cursed his mother, the dark room broods behind his regret and her acceptance...