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...TITLE: TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES...
...enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind of artful transformation, although essential to the work she does, is the least impressive of her gifts. In her On the Road pieces for regional theaters, in Fires in the Mirror off-Broadway and on PBS, and now in Twilight, she has created a new art form...
Fires in the Mirror portrayed a specific conflict between blacks and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, a sui generis neighborhood of Brooklyn. Twilight, by contrast, is sprawling. It embraces complex social, economic and political issues. It concerns events that involved millions of people and captured attention around the world. It portrays perhaps the most diverse place in America and asks whether such a place -- such a purported model for the national future -- can survive. For every character onstage, Smith debriefed six more who didn't make the cut, including the mayor, Hollywood stars and a U.S. Senator...
Calling on Americans to "turn from thoughts of...the twilight struggle [of the Cold War] to a new dawn of promise," Gen. Colin L. Powell, chair of the joint chiefs of staff, addressed some 30,000 Harvard faculty members, graduates and their families on Thursday, June 10 at the University's 342nd Commencement ceremony...
More broadly still, some politicians believe the Los Angeles election foreshadows the twilight of liberal mayors. Says Eric Schockman, a University of Southern California political scientist: "The end of the economic growth machine in urban areas 2 1/2 years ago brought joblessness, escalating crime because you could no longer afford to fight it, and now a shift in big urban power structures. L.A. is one of the dominoes along the way." Schockman foresees a new kind of leadership aimed at transcending ethnic and economic divisions and "saving us from ourselves...