Word: twilighted
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...judgment was premature. In the twilight of her career, McClintock is suddenly being hailed as a scientific prophet. This year she has received eight awards, the richest and most prestigious just last week: a $60,000-a-year, taxfree, lifetime grant from Chicago's MacArthur Foundation and the Lasker prize for basic research, worth $15,000 and often a steppingstone to a Nobel Prize...
...F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward accommodation with old age. The next time they meet, Hepburn might well say to Fonda what she exults at the end of each scene of her new Broadway...
...finally, there are the corner kicks, Debbie to Inga, after practice in the twilight...
...Little Margie, complete." The Consumer's cigarette stuck to his dry lips, and he burned his finger trying to rescue it. "Twilight Zone. Gilligan's Island and The Muppets for the kids. I videotaped the royal wedding but I erased...
...mystical moment. He may be quite a remarkable player, like Reggie Jackson, or quite an unremarkable one, like Gene Tenace. For Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente, 1971 was a long overdue moment in the sun. For fellow Pirate Willie Stargell, 1979 was a well-deserved moment in the twilight of a magnificent career...