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Calumet Farm's Twilight Tear was Horse of the Year in 1944, but she too was held out of the Triple Crown races as a three-year-old. She went on to beat colts in handicap races later that year. Now, for the first time in 65 years, a filly has beaten the colts in one of the spring classics of the Triple Crown...
Skylab is falling; Blondie's throbbing Heart of Glass dissipates in the air waves; the gas pumps are sucking dry. It is the summer of 1979, the twilight of an entropic decade and the desultory time frame of Ann Beattie's second novel. Her first, Chilly Scenes of Winter, was filmed last year as Head over Heels, and her short stories have been collected in two books, Distortions (1976) and Secrets and Surprises (1979). Beattie, 32, writes with quiet wit and subdued sympathy about the states of mind that have become the clichés of middle-class...
...legendary cigarette-holder, Actor Jason Robards is Franklin D. Roosevelt in an NBC-TV teleplay, F.D.R: The Last Year. The three-hour show, to be aired this spring, is likely to be memorable for two reasons. One is Robards' portrayal of the four-term 32nd President in his twilight, down to a remarkable re-enactment of Roosevelt's heart attack and death at Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945 during a portrait sitting. The other is that the show tackles an aspect of F.D.R.'s life not generally known until recently. Kim Hunter shares the billing with Robards...
...subjects to seek freedom in the backwaters of the Empire. This was not entirely the case with Thesiger. Born in Addis Ababa, eldest son of Britain's Minister to Ethiopia, his formative memories were of camels, tents, festooned warriors and "sitting beside my father in the twilight above a gorge, hoping he would get a shot at a leopard." At age seven, Thesiger accompanied his father to Somaliland, where the British were fighting dervishes under the command of the Mad Mullah. A few weeks later the boy was watching shells burst over the Turkish lines in the Yemen...
...valley fascinated Sammy. The lights stretched to a ring of mountains that disappeared in the twilight. Antennas. On the boulevard, red taillights winked at him. Sammy took off his shades and looked at the stars. White headlights blinked at him. He leaned against the car, drumming his fingers on the hood...