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...last Monday afternoon, NORAD had a better fix on the decaying orbit, projecting the terminal track across the Australian deserts, then northeastward over the Pacific and into the beginning of reentry over the Queen Charlotte Islands, off British Columbia. Before dawn, Brzezinski was aroused with the news that Canada indeed...
...Dawn: a hayfield spreads to a stand of poplars; early sun warms the rough wall of a stone granary; in the middle distance, two small groups...
...Duels at dawn are as familiar as graveside scenes in the rain, and the news that The Duellists is a visually opulent costume drama set in France at the time of he Napoleonic Wars does not make the heart leap...
...duel may be one of words, the sly techniques of a psych-out or blunt violence. All three tactics are present in Thomas Babe's A Prayer for My Daughter, now at Manhattan's Public Theater. The setting is a police station during the midnight-to-dawn shift. Two dope addicts, Simon (Laurence Luckinbill) and Jimmy (Alan Rosenberg), who are also homosexuals with bisexual experiences, are pushed into the bleak room in handcuffs. They have robbed a woman of $26. One of them has slit her throat...
...constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history, had broken down for Bell--time became irrelevant to the text of events that private myth, the personal subtext of events, had replaced. Down the wet streets of Cambridge Bell walked, but he walked, careless of time...