Word: twilighted
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...waves. So now I’m back in Cambridge without a phone, and though occasionally I catch myself admiring the compactness or the brilliant blue buttons of the latest spiffy cellphone model, I don’t miss mine at all. When I am suddenly plunged into a Twilight Zone moment in which I am the only person on a street without a cell phone glued to my face, I am unsettled but also satisfied that I can take notice of and soak in the surrounding cityscape in quiet solemnity...
...foot even at full pace, his passes found angles that seemed impossible. Through it all, however, he was a notoriously heavy drinker. He now says that boozing contributed to his many injuries and 27 surgeries, leaving him with only flashes of his former brilliance. And now, at the twilight of his career, 35-year-old Gascoigne is searching for one last chance at redemption. Earlier last year there was talk of a deal in Dubai or America or Malta. Maybe even one last shot in England...
...Kazakhstan and into the finality of Mon-golia, a swept land that "made the sky ... seem crowded and fussy." Inspired by what he perceives as the Arcadian freedom of the nomads?the word Mongo-lian, he writes, "evokes the scent of grass and of fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name is Khan. Those he encounters along the way are sure he's crazy, and Stewart, wrestling with ill-tempered Mongolian horses and occasionally incompetent guides, is tempted...
...trend shows no sign of slowing. New York City's new schools chancellor, Joel Klein, unveiled last November a tougher disciplinary policy, the linchpin of which is "twilight schools" for disruptive students in each of the city's five boroughs. Klein also plans to increase the number of alternative facilities for the most serious offenders...
Pretty wild, huh? Straight out of the Twilight Zone...