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...myth is outlasting its subject. TV's The Sopranos may indulge our power fantasies, but the series is really about the end of empire. (Boss Tony Soprano constantly escapes his woes by losing himself in Mob flicks like Public Enemy.) And the Sopranos' counterparts? They're counting down their twilight days, like the New Jersey DeCavalcantes, caught on tape debating the show's merits and looking for signs that its characters are based on them. "It's not me," one says pitiably. "I'm not even existing over there...
...Ristaino paints a moving and, on the whole, sad picture of their lives. Many never got over the loss of social status and the trauma of exile and eventually succumbed to alcoholism, drug addiction and debt. Wives and daughters of once secure professionals and army officers drifted into the twilight world of the city's nightlife as tea dancers and hostesses. The situation was so bad it even attracted the attention of the League of Nations. A report compiled by its officials estimated that one in four White Russian women had drifted into prostitution...
...special treatment," says the aide, "and tried to browbeat the in-flight staff into serving him the general meal, which was spicier." Meanwhile, tension seems set to continue between India and Pakistan. But as Vajpayee's ability to steer a moderate course diminishes, he's spending the twilight of his political life where he wants to be?out to lunch...
...Without even trying, Hubble had come tantalizingly close to the Holy Grail of optical astronomy, that moment in the life of the young universe when light first appeared. Holland Ford, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University and the Godfather of Hubble science, calls it "this twilight zone between a universe that is illuminated by stars, galaxies and quasars, and the universe in that period before it that was dark, before there were stars and galaxies...
DIED. DAMON KNIGHT, 79, science-fiction author and critic whose darkly wry short story To Serve Man became a famous episode of TV's Twilight Zone; in Eugene, Ore. An early member, with Isaac Asimov, of the influential writers' group the Futurians, Knight, in 1956, wrote In Search of Wonder, considered among the most important works of science-fiction criticism. The title To Serve Man refers to the name of a manual carried by aliens promising to end Earth's war and hunger. The manual turns out to be a cookbook...