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DIED. JERRY GOLDSMITH, 75, prolific composer of movie scores and television theme music; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. In a career that spanned a half-century, his music adorned everything from film epics like Patton and The Sand Pebbles to TV classics like Gunsmoke and The Twilight Zone. He could be fast, writing the haunting score for Chinatown in just 10 days, or experimental, using mixing bowls for the score of Planet of the Apes. His creepy music for The Omen won a 1976 Oscar...
...Speakers who must have been dying for a chance to lace into the current administration’s moral bankruptcy and pragmatic failures were reportedly told to lay off the Bush-bashing for fear of alienating those precious swingers. And so this week inhabited an odd political twilight zone: an opposition party seeking to rescue the nation midway through what seems the worst eight years of misgovernance in memory, the Dems forced themselves to put on a happy face...
...honest with you, I always had [this position] in the back of my mind,” Donato said, noting that he might have returned to the NHL had he not been offered the position. “With me kind of at the twilight of my career and the position being open, in a lot of ways, the stars aligned very much for me and I’m very fortunate to be standing where...
After the meeting, they adjourn to the garden and drink sweet black tea in the twilight. As they lecture me on Islam, a roar cuts across the conversation. From the other side of the farmhouse, less than 50 yds. away, a missile soars over us with a thunderous screech--bound for a nearby encampment housing U.S. Marines. "Allahu akbar," they all mutterGod is great. Minutes later, the imam makes the evening call to prayer. The 50 militants gathered at the safe house form tight lines behind one of the imams and bow reverently in prayer. Then some leave...
Walking along the street, old and young chatter pleasantly in the twilight of a summer’s day. But, in the words Hemingway famously immortalized, the sun also rises. And here, in a country once the most powerful in the world, then lost and forgotten, the sun seems to be rising once again...