Word: twilighted
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...guards armed with shotguns and rifles who observed the familiar scene from seven of the eight watchtowers. In addition, about ten guards were down among the men, circulating, waiting, watching for trouble. It was 7:30 p.m., pleasant and cool. A gentle breeze was blowing, and the soft Tennessee twilight was just drawing on. Darkness would not fall for two hours or so?plenty of time for anyone to get away, if he could make it over the 14-to 18-ft. stonewalls...
...TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING
...your yearning for the good old anxieties of yesteryear-that is, the late '50s and early '60s-is simply uncontrollable, you could do worse than spend a couple of hours with Twilight's Last Gleaming. In it, a gang of desperate men seize a SAC missile silo in the Far West and threaten to unleash its contents on Russian targets, thus precipitating World War III, unless the President of the U.S. accedes to their demands...
...shot tired Berliners plodding to work at the first light of morning-normality amid pending catastrophe -while buses, trolleys, cars and carts clattered around the curving street. At the other end of the set, Nykvist shot Carradine pushing through the crowds to arrive at Manuela's cabaret at twilight. The realism was enhanced by a cold rain that began to splash on cars and pedestrians. Soon the street lights were turned on and the final take of the parade was in the can. "We did it," said Nykvist. "We did here what we've often done...
...that hilariously dismembered logic in such earlier novels as Murphy and Molloy, but the dominant mood is elegiac: "For an instant I see the sky, the different skies, then they turn to faces, agonies, loves, the different loves, happiness too, yes, there was that too, unhappily." It is a twilight thought, stated carefully enough to stand up to the pressures of Beckett's singular vision: happiness is hard to bear and hard to do without...