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...Dusk was settling over the seaside South Island village of Aramoana (pop. 52) last week when a volley of shots ruptured the evening calm. Almost simultaneously, an orange glow lit the darkening sky as fire licked at the house of Garry Holden, 38, a naturopath who lived with his two daughters at the far end of the village. Many of the locals interrupted their dinners to investigate...
Comic artifice is better served in a static rendering of Dorothy Parker's Dusk Before Fireworks (directed by Ken Russell, adapted by Valerie Curtin). In the giddy days of bathtub gin -- much guzzling in all three stories, by the way -- the coitus of an aging rake (Peter Weller) and a nubile flapper is rendered interruptus by untimely calls from his other women. Former teen queen Molly Ringwald delivers her lioness's share of the Parker sallies with engaging zest but seems a bit too twentysomethingly modern for a tart of the Roaring Twenties...
...NEAR DUSK as a lanky but ornery-looking bandit strolls into Dodge City. Peering through his bifocals, speaking prudently and always at the right junctures, he announces that he's brought a stranger to town--Desperado Dave--and that he's taking him to the courthouse...
Qassem has served three stretches in jail on suspicion of being an activist. He is a man in his mid-30s, with black Heathcliff eyes and deep grooves like parentheses around his mouth. In the dusk he recalls the rituals of interrogation...
...deluge of rain began as dusk fell over the Appalachians in eastern Ohio. By 11 p.m. 5 1/2 in. had pounded the foothills and cascaded into the hollows. In Shadyside, a village of 4,300 people along the Ohio River, residents were unaware that in the darkness a 40-ft. wall of water had risen in Wegee Creek, which is usually ankle deep, and was rolling toward them. It hit with enough force to knock frame houses off their foundations, carry mobile homes downstream and buckle the concrete walls of a tavern. One patron was carried away by the water...