As the night darkened, warehouse lights silhouetted Mr. Kahn's sinewy frame, and beer smells mingled with sea smells.
The sudden cutoffs darkened traffic lights and led to traffic jams in communities from Orange County to San Francisco.
After a night of fierce winds that gusted to nearly 80 miles an hour, people emerged from their homes to downed trees, darkened traffic lights — and a collective sense of having been spared the worst of the storm's wrath.
"The outage stopped hundreds of trains in their tracks, darkened traffic lights, shuttered the Delhi Metro and left everyone from the police to water utilities to private businesses and citizens without electricity.
While there was a significant counter push -- for example, the historic Cologne Cathedral darkened its lights against the protests in Dresden -- it did little to calm the sense of anxiety.
As it went up higher and higher, the sky around it darkened from light blue to navy and finally to black.
By ten-thirty I had become exhausted, and I leaned on Ellen, who supported my weight as we went riding past the darkened or lit facades of the palaces of the Grand Canal.
Scenery was reduced to simple, abstract backdrops; the stage was darkened or lighted from above; gestures were stylized and speeches were chanted; and costumes were usually simple and "timeless".
As we entered a darkened warehouse lit up by Tron-esque triangular neon tubes, and Chicago house music kicked off the soundtrack, we knew were in for a nostalgic ride.
