Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that other Burgess Meredith was everything else, from a Shakespearean actor to the quacking Penguin in TV's Batman. He directed himself and Charles Laughton in The Man on the Eiffel Tower, co-produced On Our Merry Way with Henry Fonda and James Stewart, and made three Twilight Zone episodes in 1959. He was married four times, served in the Air Force, and crusaded for environmental causes. And he knew enough to do it all: "If I spent all my time in Shakespearean companies and only did art movies like Olivier, my position would be more dignified and more serious...
Twenty years after the first cases of Lyme disease were reported in and around Old Lyme, Conn., the epidemic of tick-borne infections seems to be taking a detour into the twilight zone. Doctors know how to diagnose it--most of the time. They can even cure it--most of the time. Pharmaceutical companies are working on two promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims...
...nature lovers, not to mention theater and the arts, pristine mountains, wildlife and wildflowers, and premier restaurants and shops. Our skiing ranks among the best in the world. Our summers are a foretaste of paradise. As a former urban denizen, I count myself blessed to be spending my twilight years here in Shangri-La. JOSEPH E. MACHUREK Crested Butte, Colo...
...largest stage, was the high point. On record, her voice sometimes has a tepid blond wispiness; in concert, it has a crackling, sparks-flying, campfire warmth. Finally McLachlan, with her full band, appeared on the first stage to close out the day with a serene set that shimmered like twilight...
Images keep recurring, crisscrossing, gaining new associations in verses that have the noble radiance of stained glass, grave but full of light. In his twilight hours, the poet often berates himself for not having hymned the "unrelenting mercy of light" and the "shallows' scriptures" of his native St. Lucia as he should. In the end, however, he realizes that what has sustained him all along are the "immortelle" and "wild mammy-apple" of his "generous Eden." As the waves of his melodious argument wash up at last on the shores of thanksgiving and affirmation, one realizes that there...