The "TV Dinner" part of the line's name was dropped in 1962, but the form lives on in the millions of frozen meals sold for dawn-to-dusk eating across America.
He himself has adopted English ways, sitting at table with his wife and sons in a sort of brownish, indoor dusk, patiently eating bowls of crumble and custard; yet a poster on his wall, advertising Australia, promises sunshine and tranquillity, and his encounters with Bertie become a rebuke to the half-light of his adopted land.
It keeps its bats under the Congress Avenue Bridge, or rather they keep themselves there: 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats, who live beneath the bridge's concrete arches from March until November, streaming out at dusk to eat.
"You're supposed to break your fast when it's dusk, and we eat when the sun is out.
As dusk fell we ate a delicious buffet of curries on the deck of the big boat that ferried us between kayak spots, and made kratongs, floating offerings of flowers and candles that we released to bob about a starlit lagoon.
While eating prey at dusk and with no platform nearby, one P. schultzi built a silk platform while holding the prey, and then continued eating.
One dusk, sitting round the hotel pool eating the traditional Thai dish of French fries and tomato ketchup washed down by Coke and beer, there came a moment of revelation.
And it's almost as delicious — though probably slightly less meaningful — even if you haven't gone without eating from dawn to dusk.
Time spent eating by dairy cows at the dusk grazing bout was much longer than that at the other 2 grazing bouts and composed about 40% of the daily total eating time.
To see these bashful, ungainly creatures, you've got to head out at dusk (5 30AM), when moose are most likely to be eating in a woodsy cove or slow-moving stream.
The sky at dusk used to be filled with those predators, each one eating its body weight in insects nightly.
