Word: twilighter
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...white-hot glow, night had fallen over the rest of the city, it seemed. Skaggs' favorite hours in New York had always been the gradual, liminal recession of day into night, the daily autumn, with each of its slow, soft, ambiguous gradations of deepening color and shadow. But twilight had been rendered obsolete by the New York Gas Light Company. Half the city's streetlamps were...
...Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came in the form of a letter sent by Fabbri in 1899 praising "the aristocratic and austere" beauty of Cézanne's painting, was treated as a distraction...
...feminist movement were kind of anti-baby, anti-body.” The fact still remains that women who have sex frequently, or with many partners, are often considered at best physically unclean and at worst, somehow mentally or emotionally deficient. Grizzle references a “Twilight Zone” within which these women allegedly operate: “I just don’t understand how they can believe that, that women’s empowerment comes from porn, and going to sex shops, and whatever else the [FemSex] syllabus has on it. I called it the Twilight...
...read that it was not until I had finished each story that I realized how deeply entwined I had become with her characters and their experiences, or how much depth lay behind them. Like her previous works, Eisenberg’s latest collection of short stories, “Twilight of the Superheroes,” demonstrates her utter mastery of characterization and transcends petty provincialism, instead exploring complex relationships of all sorts and the various ways in which they intertwine and affect the individual. Though the characters in each story differ vastly from each other in circumstances and personality...
...Beuys and Fluxus in the same exhibit works well, drawing attention to the artists’ personal feelings on the purpose of art itself. A WORLD OF PURE IMAGINATIONThe exhibit is set in two different rooms, each filled with items that look like they might be found in a Twilight Zone version of an average grocery or toy store.Although at first glance the objects appear ordinary, nothing is what it seems. A clock measures circumference rather than time (Per Kirkeby’s “Flux Clock,” 1969); a musical score reads only...