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...like little flames through dark forests; sometimes he gave the same dreamlike quality to a straight portrait or still life. Technically, his work was very uneven. Being a romantic, he painted from the heart, and everything depended on how he felt at the moment. At his best, he evoked dusk in Provence as effectively as a great U.S. romantic, Albert Pinkham Ryder, suggested night in America...
...orphan, without beaux or hope of dowry. In Madrid, in 1867, that was about as bad a fix as a girl could find herself in. So Amparo had become a slavey for her distant, stingy relatives, Rosalia and Francisco Bringas, who kept her jumping from dawn to dusk and repaid her with spoiled food and a few rare pesetas...
RECREATION Gnus Nix ZaxTut In the dusk of many summer evenings, for the quiet time when television cloys and the children scuttle in chase of the Good Humor man, an ever-growing slice of the U.S. public has found a new diversion. Its name: Scrabble. Its components: a board with 225 squares, 100 small wooden counters bearing letters of the alphabet, two to four players, ability to spell (or a handy dictionary) and a few ounces of competitive spirit...
...found them!" Before they got to the scene, the women passed red rivulets in the gully that led to the grassy ledge, and they knew. When they reached the bodies, the women were no longer screaming. They ran among them, recognizing a husband here, a son there. In the dusk they dragged the bodies down to the black cypress grove. With only their hands, they clawed at the muddy earth to make graves. When they went back to the village, the Germans were gone...
...usual nickname, "Dead Man." (In 1932 Willie was cut up so badly in a brawl that a doctor pronounced him dead.) With Willie in tow, the President set off over the course, striding along briskly, as he habitually does while golfing. He got in seven holes before dusk...