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...other 10% of cases are the "wet" form, in which abnormal blood vessels spread across the back of the eye, obscuring vision. Former TIME editor-in-chief Henry Grunwald has evoked the wet form's unrelenting course in his new book Twilight, a piercing reflection on his growing blindness...
Ever feel like your lunch was just a little too long or your dinner dragged on into the twilight hours? I have. Last week, I spent 10 hours one day in Annenberg to get to the bottom of the mystery of the stained-glass behemoth that is the freshman dining hall. Below, the minute-by-minute...
Looking is not seeing," writes Henry Grunwald in Twilight (Knopf; 130 pages; $20), and often we really see something only when it is about to leave us. For Grunwald, the beginning of such a loss came seven years ago, when a routine examination revealed that he was legally blind in his left eye and was one of roughly 15 million Americans who suffer from macular degeneration, a gradual diminishing of eyesight (often caused by age) for which there is no cure...
...Twilight is, at heart, a touching essay on vulnerability. It is the story of a man of action who has always been in command of his world accepting dependence and even folly: as he goes up to a maitre d' to shake his hand, Grunwald is told that he has just greeted a statue of a monkey. The eye, we learn early, is not just a camera but a "portal of light." In that respect, as in many others, this lucid, elegant book is a piercing reflection of (and on) the way that...
...about in frocks, Australia's Barry Humphries donned a dress as Edna Everage, Melbourne housewife. His "one-woman" London shows turned Edna into a British institution. In her hilarious Broadway debut, the self-dubbed dame sings a bit and muses about her family (Mum's in a "maximum-security twilight home"), but mostly she chats with the audience--or picks on it (though "caringly"). Humphries, a gloriously gaudy "megastar," has timing as sharp as a knife pleat...