Word: twilighter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hearing lasted no more than a minute. Suddenly, after an ordeal that had spanned five court appearances and three days in jail, the couple was acquitted. "This is a great day," Rietbauer said, "not just for us, but for all the other people who have been living in the twilight for so long. I think South Africa is at last growing up." In the colored township of Eersterus, outside Pretoria, Clive Fisher, a colored glazier, eagerly set about making plans for a formal church wedding to his English-born partner, Adele White, with whom he has been living for five...
...hear him tell it, all it took was a little luck. The reality? He’ll exercise that combination of talent and diamond savvy long after the twilight of his Cambridge days...
Biographer Patricia O’Toole tells the story of Roosevelt’s twilight in the concise, smooth prose that one would expect from the Columbia University writing teacher that she is. In When Trumpets Call, released by Simon & Schuster last month, O’Toole draws upon a wealth of primary sources—including several collections of letters of Roosevelt’s family members that are stashed away in Harvard’s Houghton Library—to offer the reader a glimpse into TR’s most private thoughts...
...wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...
Emoh, then, represents that peace, and a new phase in Barlow’s career. While some see him leaning ever closer to a twilight incarnation as a washed-up singer-songwriter, his stage presence is still as quirky and sincere as ever, and his songs still drip with emotion and past hauntings, if just a bit more clearly than before...