Word: twilighter
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...surface and atmosphere I partly mean the Mississippi spring greenery, the driving rain, twilight haze, and old screen doors through which cinematographer Jean Boffety aims his camera. But also I mean the views director Robert Altman gives us of Bowie and Keetchie, the central pair of lovers, views which are confined to a few conversations, a love scene or two, and above all the faces of actors Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall, which are as beautiful in their simplicity and awkwardness as the country around them is in all its rural roughness. Both give excellent performances, but Duvall particularly makes...
...TWILIGHT faded one day last spring, a football prospect from Philadelphia was inspecting the green expanses of Soldiers Field. He almost tripped over a rock near the now-deflated bubble, and, as he cursed what seemed so out of place on a playing field, he found that the stone was a dedication marker commemorating a former Harvard great who seemed totally insignificant to the high school recruit at that moment. "One thing about this place," he said. "Every god damn thing has some guy's name scratched on it somewhere...
...second play has an uncharacteristic darkness. Sir Hugo Latymer is a famous old British writer with a talent for elegant malice. A Song at Twilight may have been as close as Coward came to autobiography-although Latymer bears a resemblance to Somerset Maugham. While Latymer and his German wife-secretary are at a Swiss hotel, an actress whom he loved in his youth and denigrated in his memoirs appears for a sudden reunion. They share caviar and steak. Eventually, the former mistress reveals that she possesses the letters Hugo once wrote to a homosexual lover he had always concealed...
...TWILIGHT. Another street, off by itself in the middle of a commercial part of town. Smells of supper in the air. One end of the street opens out on a wide road full of fast traffic coming from burger places down the road. The houses all have porches and many of them have hedges in front or vines trained around their railings...
...name of every blind and dead little boy and girl in all of Vietnam and Cambodia. Harvard held Kissinger's chair in the Government Department open for him even as Indochina glowed with burning napalm fire; this University's values had retreated so far into the grey twilight of relativism that the values meant nothing...