Word: twilighter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of glamour, gossip and low jinks among the high-lifes-survived largely because she made it seem exciting even when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City...
...twilight and wandering star that comes to charm...
After a few more words--"I loved the blackout," she said. "It was beautiful and mysterious"--I left. It was twilight, and the Radcliffe quad was covered with ground fog. One of the street lights was very strange. It blinked on and off, on and off, like the light on a Christmas tree...
...three-quarters of a century, through three wars and the twilight years of peace, tiny Alsace was a depressed no-man's land between the guns of France and Germany. The province changed flags four times between 1871 and 1945. As more than 400,000 Alsatians left, the grey turrets of the Maginot Line became the chief landmark. Forgotten was the fact that for most of the 19th century Alsace had been one of the world's most industrialized areas...
...reporting, Capote contrasts the stolid, generally sunny life of the murdered farm family with the eerie twilight world of the two killers. He limns the small-town Midwest of homemade pies, 4-H meetings and simple pieties. By dramatically re-creating the Clutter family-Father Herbert, who served on the federal Farm Credit Board under Ike; his diffident, withdrawn wife Bonnie; their sturdy teen-age son Kenyon; their engaging teen-age daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such...