Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bridges, go to India. Stop in Bangkok on the way and look up the silk merchant's daughter who knows every ecstatic secret the old ways can teach. Swim naked with her at dawn in jungle pools and listen to her scream as you turn her inside out at twilight. Let go of this' -- the voice was hissing now -- 'it's outrunning you.' But the slow street tango had begun...
Before falling to earth, the little sparrow soared to grandeur. She was an international star and the last in the line of French singers famous for chansons realistes, gritty songs about real people. They are stories of love lost, of city streets at twilight and tears at midnight. Suffering and ardor suffuse her music because Piaf performed the same way she lived, holding back nothing. "Je suis entiere," she once said, I am totally committed. Heard again, the husky, impassioned voice revives a fading dream of Paris. And for that, the French again clasp her to their hearts and will...
...TWILIGHT ZONE...
...title of the play is a pun on The Twilight of the Gods, the final opera in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle. The Ring is a sprawling work about gods and mortals deciding the fate of the world. The information the Gold family receives in the play puts them in the same godlike position, just where the current crop of genetic discoveries puts all of us. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these questions, What kind of world do we want? How will we make these decisions? Whom...
...When Twilight opened recently in Washington, I was fortunate enough to spend a day at the brand-new and heartbreaking Holocaust Museum. Yet again, I was stunned by the Nazis' painstaking "scientific" attempts to rid the gene pool of unwanted traits. Now, barely 50 years later, science is giving us the knowledge and tools that Hitler's medical staff only dreamed of. Our society will be forced, whether it wants to or not, to answer this question and others like it: Was Hitler wrong about the Jews but right about the homosexuals...