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Thomas McKnight's landscapes are magic. Through his windows or the eyes of his birds, one can't quite tell what exists, or how. The only solid objects in "Spring Twilight Window" are the bars. McKnight's metaphysical "New England Valley"--which bears a striking resemblance to Harvard--is perhaps the most subtly intriging of all, a vision of a place dark and light, real and staged, at once...
Updike's latest book, Marry Me, is set in 1962, in pre-assassination America. As the protagonist suggests, it is "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in." The old confrontations--East vs. West, black vs. white--are reaching a head, and no one can know what the resolutions will...
...public Pat Nixon projected a stiff, almost plastic image-one that served well to conceal her inner anguish. Intimates say it also obscured a warmth and liveliness enjoyed only by those who knew her offstage. Yet her ordeal was obviously great as her husband, in the twilight of his presidency, lied to the public-and apparently even to his family-about the Watergate cover-up and was forced out of office. Most humiliating in more recent days was the Bob Woodward-Carl Bernstein description of a cold Nixon marriage, her consideration of divorce in 1962, her seeking solace in drink...
...newest and least successful effort, there is little to spell out anyway. The movie is about equally dazzling and disappointing, but where it goes wrong is in substance, not in style. Roeg's exuberance and invention are compromised here by a yarn that carries dank traces of Twilight Zone...
...involves the escapades of a bunch of Los Angeles ambulance drivers who hustle catastrophe for $42.50 plus 500-a-mile. Tom Mankiewicz's screenplay owes more than it ought to MASH, but it has found a way to get into the underbelly of a city, to survey the twilight territory where tragedy and comedy trip over each other and make an unsightly mess. What might have been a pitch-black comedy is a movie loaded down with cheapjack melodrama and sleazy yocks...