Word: twilighted
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...talking now about the front porches where neighbors in small towns ebb and flow in the summer twilight, murmuring their joys, worries and loves...
...eerie, gorgeous twilight between empire and dissolution, the city's ; radical young artists and architects broke from the local academy, named themselves Secessionists and established their own countersalon in 1897. They called their journal Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) and practiced, as a matter of principle, a manic cross-fertilization. With Klimt, art became overtly decorative, gold-inlaid portraits masquerading as rich bijoux; with Hoffmann and his Wiener Werkstatte collaborator Koloman Moser, bowls and chairs aspired to art. It was a feverish, unresolved time, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle impulse was to savor the exquisitely confused cultural moment...
...pilot: "The President should be able to take off in Washington and turn right or left and get there on one tank of gas -- Moscow or Peking." Security agents want every protection they can devise for these power nomads they must shepherd with increasing frequency through the globe's twilight zones...
...rumble of drums, the piping of flutes echoed through the warm summer twilight. Hundreds upon hundreds of men in bowler hats and orange sashes marched through the north of Belfast, their bright silken banners gilded by the setting sun. As the Sunday-suited men strode past, to the tune of their stirring ancestral anthem, The Sash, a British army helicopter hovered overhead and riot police stood guard before the 20-ft.-high screens they had just erected. Later that evening, 22 miles away, another group of men in tribal orange filed through the village of Downpatrick and gathered...
...good news is that the past is still very much alive in William Trevor's latest stories. As in previous collections, such as The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Lovers of Their Time, national and personal histories cast a haunting twilight over a lonely present. This works particularly well in the title story of The News from Ireland, which is set in the 1840s. That, of course, is the period of the great famine that sent more than 1 million Irish to the New World. It is also the time when a family of English Protestants named Pulvertaft...