Word: twilighter
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...Into the twilight of the past...
...period from 1880 to 1914 that the show concentrates. Few painters have had more difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...
...bewitching blur the ball was hurriedly snapped, placed down and kicked, rising into the twilight and fading out to the left of the goalposts standing like twin beacons in the gloom. Harvard kicker Gary Bosnic had missed a 30-yd. field goal with 1:14 left in the game and now Brown was assured of a 31-30 victory in a struggle that eddied back and forth between two evenly matched teams...
...Hollywood techniques of establishing mood and tone, he has developed and refined others. His use of color is particularly striking. The monochromatic brown shading of McCabe and Mrs. Miller conveys the cold bleakness of the northwestern frontier, and the blue tones of The Long Goodbye are appropriate to the twilight world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow tones, simultaneously evoking both the languor...
...Czechoslovak Communist Party of Alexander Dubček. Under Dubček, censorship had been lifted, police files aired and Communist Party officials-for the first time ever-subjected to open, popular criticism. Then, thanks to the Kremlin, the country was yanked back into the grim, gray twilight of East bloc conformity it had known since...