Word: moonlighting
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...stars, of course, are best observed at night. But not just any night. To reveal anything in detail, the skies must be brilliantly clear, something that happens only about half of the time even in the most favorable climates. Moonlight or the glare from cities and highways can also spoil the view. As the twinkling of the stars shows, the dust and gases in the earth's atmosphere scatter heavenly light, thus limiting the effectiveness of every telescope, even such monsters as the 200-in. mirror atop California's Palomar Mountain...
...Full moonlight drenched the city and searched it; there was not a niche left to stand in. The effect was remorseless: London looked like the moon's capital -shallow, cratered, extinct. It was late, but not yet midnight; now the buses had stopped the polished roads and streets in this region sent for minutes together a ghostly unbroken reflection up. The soaring new flats and the crouching old shops and houses looked equally brittle under the moon, which blazed in windows that looked its way. The futility of the black-out became laughable: from the sky, presumably, you could...
...here routine. Said he to guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans danced, at last, at their eighth stop, the party in the ornate Pension Office Building, to Moonlight Serenade, and again at the Smithsonian's American History Museum to You 'II Never Know...
...boil it down...People are not going to read long drawn-out writings," the University of Texas graduate says, adding that his models of clarity include Bertrand Russell, Leo Tolstoy and the King James Bible. All the letters are written early in the morning, "one, two, three, when the moonlight is in the window and my mind is the clearest." And each the product of an undivided attention: "I don't have a radio, a television, a telephone--you would be shocked at the simplicity of it all," Ratliff says...
...bereaved Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Chosen of the Palace), the Taj Mahal is perhaps the most extravagant and beautiful mausoleum in the world. Made of shimmering white marble from Rajasthan, its domes and minarets glow so brightly, even in moonlight, that large sections were wrapped in burlap during the most recent India-Pakistan war out of fear that Pakistani aircraft might use it as a beacon...