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...Cisneros: We'll spend hours talking through a strategy of meeting all the objections to try and move our homeless initiative through the Office of Management and Budget and through congressional committees. We'll spend hours talking about how to please this or that person. Meanwhile it's dusk. And people are starting to bed down for the night -- for one more night in the park outside the window. And we could go on for days talking and never get one step closer to the people who are using cardboard for beds in the nation's capital...
...watching the leaves fall, or listening to dusk approach. "As the afternoons grow shorter, and the early evening drives us home to complete our chores," he writes, "we are reminded of the shortness of life, and become more pensive, at least in this twilight of the year...
...reporters, who constantly risk injury and even death, work seven days a week in shifts, with some starting at dawn and others at dusk. They avoid leaving the building, for fear of drawing Serbian sniper fire...
...sing? Two new CDs provide the answer. Koch Schwann has issued Symphony No. 1, "1959"; Choros I, a major work for string orchestra from 1964; and the brief Three Pieces in the Old Style (1963) for strings. From Elektra Nonesuch come two recent string quartets, Already It Is Dusk (No. 1) and Quasi una Fantasia (No. 2). The result is a fuller, rounder picture of an uncompromising modernist who just may be the Bruckner...
...Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where her parents repaired Gobelin carpets. It has the enticing glow of a Magritte villa at dusk, but above the door to the cage, ready to be tripped, is a guillotine blade. You can't go home again...