ON a sultry, late-summer afternoon, shortly before school was about to begin again, the members of one Eastchester family set off in different directions.

Sunshine was still visible near the end of a warm, late-summer afternoon.

The crash shattered a calm late-summer afternoon in this small resort community on Block Island 12 miles off the Rhode Island coast.

Not the restful stillness of a late-summer afternoon when the day has played itself out and everything waits in a quiet stupor for the lively coolness of evening.

Not die restful stillness of a late-summer afternoon when die day . . . "I believe."

Ms. Frankel and Mr. Quint were married on Aug. 21, a rainy late-summer afternoon, under a tent at her parents' farm.

One of the most famous of them is "Farmers Nooning" (1836), a depiction of five farmers relaxing on a late-summer afternoon.

On a late-summer afternoon, an architectural historian visiting the cobwebby old studio in back of the house picked it up and turned it over.

"Well, people from all cultures recognize him," said a harried guard who was beating back the throng on a late-summer afternoon and who would not give her name.

She looked out the window at the late-summer afternoon, the traffic on distant Lambeth Bridge.