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...style Southern belle." When the vignettes threaten to stretch credibility, Lemann unerringly interweaves a little writing just for its own sake, perhaps a nature sketch about "the rustling of the leaves, the waning light on the bay . . . the swans on the green lagoon. The drama of the twilight." Such is the light in her book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Light | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...reply that no red-blooded Australian wanted to see a "chocolate-colored" country, while Liberal Cabinet ministers insisted Australia would remain forever homogeneous. Today Vietnamese immigrants gather around high-rise public-housing buildings in Melbourne's inner-city neighborhood of Fitzroy, playing cards or talking in the soft twilight. What they will make of Australia, and Australia of them, is still to be determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: In Search of Itself | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...over the unspoiled mountains and fertile valleys of Karabakh is a blood feud with roots that reach deep into the history of the region. In 1915, during the twilight of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians living in Turkish Armenia were deported into the deserts of what is now Syria. At least 1 million people of Armenian descent were either killed or died of starvation, though modern Turkey disputes that figure as exaggerated. Azeris are ethnic cousins of the Turks, and in Karabakh today some Armenian soldiers claim they are continuing the historic battle. "For the Azeris, the only solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Soviet Union Carnage in Karabakh | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

When he went into public with his wife, who iswhite, Gates said that he "felt like we were inthe Twilight Zone...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Profs Face Life In Often Harsh Setting | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

NIGHTMARE CAFE (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. EST). At a supernatural all-night diner, passersby relive key events from their past. TV could certainly use a Twilight Zone for the '90s, but this tacky, poorly acted horror-fantasy series from Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will make no one forget Rod Serling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 16, 1992 | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

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