Word: twilight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Serbian twilight, they took us to see Slobodan Milosevic in his presidential residence. He had reddish, piggy eyes set in a big round head. He wore a brush cut that looked like static electricity firing up from his pink skull. Milosevic settled complacently onto a sofa, with Wiesel on his right, and cocked one leg onto the cushion, showing an expanse of hairless, pale calf above his black sock...
...forget the all-pervasive influence of television--the ultimate cultural normalizer. But even with TV, I've foiled modernity by picking Nick at Nite, not MTV, as my channel of choice. As a kid, I spent many happy hours in front of the tube watching "I Dream of Jeannie," "Twilight Zone," "Bewitched," "I Love Lucy," "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Happy Days." In retrospect, it's just as well that I remained relatively oblivious to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...forget the all-pervasive influence of television--the ultimate cultural normalizer. But even with TV, I've foiled modernity by picking Nick at Nite, not MTV, as my channel of choice. As a kid, I spent many happy hours in front of the tube watching "I Dream of Jeannie," "Twilight Zone," "Bewitched," "I Love Lucy," "Mary Tyler Moore" and "Happy Days." In retrospect, it's just as well that I remained relatively oblivious to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
...driven student body. We should demand an official dean of students because Harvard's zeal deserves better student services: bringing more of the outside world to campus for career guidance, as well as entertainment purposes; having the power to initiate an increase in student group space and funding; instituting twilight library and dining hall hours; fostering more student-staff interaction. While the administration could do much more to make student life rewarding, the fact that Harvard students can't seem to find time for love is our own fault...
...characters' problems, and in the recounting of their riot experiences, lives a realism far stronger than footage of a burning building or the photograph of a beaten man. Further, while the riots were wrapped up by the media and dismissed as another news item of 1992, the conflict in Twilight remained unresolved. As a non-fiction work, the conflict that was opened by the monologues, remained opened and messy at the plays conclusion. When a peaceful ending was denied, and the unsettling reality of the play remained, the fragmented aesthetic of the production became sensical. The aesthetic incongruity...