Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show but still dresses and talks like a four-year-old. Watching Urkel--played by the twentysomething and seemingly 6-ft.-tall Jaleel White--comport himself as though he should be in a play group is more disconcerting than anything that ever went on in The Twilight Zone...
While some of his stories do have a definite narrative line, others are complete nonsense. The majority of his work, as in the following excerpt from "The Object Lesson," is a combination of the two: "At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum, so the others retired to the kiosk, only to discover the cakes iced a peculiar shade of green...
Earlier this summer, Kemp saw his political career as being in the twilight. Last month he described himself to a Buffalo newspaper as a "recovering politician." On an overcast afternoon in Kansas last week, Jack Kemp's political recovery was complete...
Feuding aides and economic gloom are what helped wear down even a healthy Boris Yeltsin. Outstanding when faced with an all-or-nothing crisis, he has consistently been baffled and demoralized by the drudgery of daily governance. Now, in his twilight years, he has come eerily to resemble the description he once scornfully offered of his rival Mikhail Gorbachev: "a lover of half steps and half measures...
...long twilight struggle for justice will be won only if racism is eradicated. America salves her conscience with economic programs and formal civil rights legislation. Yet our nation continues to sin, and an egregious guilt rests upon our soul...