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...irony of her victory is that in many ways, Margaret Thatcher seems to be Ted Heath's female Doppelgänger. Although her garden party hats and porcelain-voweled laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath...
...Heinlein for Stranger in a Strange Land Frank Herbert and Dune, published in 1965, winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards: Isaac Asimov's brilliant, futuristic Foundation trilogy: and Ray Bradbury and Arthu C. Clarke for Fahrenheit 451 and Childhood's End, respectively. On television, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits have won tremendous followings and the box office success of 2001: A Space Odyssey is representative of the drawing power of current science fiction films...
Until recent weeks, James Angleton was a paradigm of his arcane trade. Cultivated in taste, shrewd in intellect, and above all discreet in his work for the CIA, Angleton, 57, was in the twilight of a distinguished career...
...accomplished in the infant if he is starving. Nor will it happen later. In many cases, brain development that does not occur when it is supposed to does not take place at all. Thus hunger is condemning countless thousands of infants-from Harlem to the Sahel-to the twilight zone of mental retardation, and leaving them no hope of deliverance...
...time does Brassai treat his sitters as objects of derision or freaks. His pimps and prostitutes are denizens of a bizarre twilight world but within this world they have dignity and command respect. Bijou stares at the camera forthrightly, without embarrassment or shame. When Brassai does choose to comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...