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...FILM Entre Nous concludes with the French seashore at dusk, we observe the scene from the perspective of a small girl who is standing on the porch of a beachhouse watching her parents complete the breakup of their ailing marriage. She is the unnoticed observer; slightly confused at the complex adult world, but completely engrossed. The viewer experiences a similar response to Diane Kury's new film--a film that thrusts the viewer into the intricate emotional life of its character's lives, but occasionally leaves them standing alone...
Suitable stages no longer seem to be available for such death scenes, nor is there much inclination to witness them. People tend either to die suddenly, unexpectedly, without the necessary editorial preparation, or to expire in hospitals, under sedation and probably not during visiting hours. The sedative dusk descends hours or days before the last darkness...
...colleagues had "decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government" of President Shehu Shagari, 58. "This task," said Abacha, "has just been completed." The general then announced that all political parties were being banned and communications with the outside world suspended, and that a dusk-to-dawn curfew was being imposed. Only four months after Nigeria's 25.4 million voters re-elected Shagari to a second four-year term, it appeared that a bloodless military coup-or at least an attempt-had taken place in Africa's most populous country (pop. about 85 million...
Every day at dusk, a scruffy knot of rebels gather before the gutted cathedral in the Salvadoran town of Jucuarán. All carry automatic weapons, but little else about them bespeaks military discipline. They fidget and giggle like schoolboys, snapping to attention only at the sight of their bearded commander. "For the people of this town, you are the revolution," he warned them one evening last week. "Be polite. Ask permission before entering a house." But as soon as the leader departed for his camp deep in the nearby hills, the youths slung their M-16s over their shoulders...
When the First Family is out of town, as it was last week, the lights on the White House lawn are usually dark. But at dusk last Thursday the grounds came brilliantly alight. Caught in the glare were seven sand-filled Government trucks that set up barricades at the mansion's gates. At the State Department, similar drastic security measures were in effect. The precautions were sparked by a bomb threat received by the FBI. It coincided with a review of security prompted by the October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole...