Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While majoring in international relations and classical guitar at the University of Toronto, he began making short films. Egoyan went on to direct several episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," before releasing his first feature, "Next...
Today online sex is as wild and far-ranging as the human imagination -- a real Twilight Zone of the Id, which causes one to reflect on whether or not the human race is indeed an evolutionary cul-de-sac, until you remember that cybersex has been going on since humans received the gift of imagination. Cybersex is, at bottom, simply old sexual fantasies in a new electronic bottle. As with all other new mediums, online draws its energy from the same two timeless topics: radical politics and sexual fantasy. They are the first uses made of any new means...
Beloved of musicians, Pelleas has long been a challenge for audiences. There are no conventional arias or ensembles, and the tenebrous music never fully breaks into song. Like Maeterlinck's poetry, the music is allusive rather than specific. Accordingly, most Pelleas productions take place in twilight or the dark; Sellars and set designer George Typsin have chosen to let the sun shine in. Instead of a vaguely medieval setting, the scene is a huge beach house constantly irradiated by the sunlight that glints off the ocean's waves. The gloom is gone, but the doom remains. To underscore the sickness...
...have always had a romantic vision of Cape Cod. Two summers ago I went there for the first time with a friend. I tasted the clams overboiled in sandy water, saw the rickety ghettos along Route 6 and came upon miles of coarse, deserted dunes with harsh twilight sandstorms. It was not my idealization of the Cape. It should have been a place of carefree beauty, of deck shoes and seagulls, of dinghies and pale yellow beach houses...
...spent the whole day looking for this Cape Cod, but couldn't find it anywhere. I saw it only on our way back, as we stopped alongside the road for a break. It was on the seashore off the roadside, at twilight. The beach was a dark brushed gold, separated from the dune by tufts of tall, wild green reeds. The beach had a delicate bulge like a person's belly, which sunk into a gently rippled, calm blue ocean The ocean was glazed with pink from the clouds...