Word: sundowners
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...movie begins at sundown in Oberwald. Soldiers patrol the castle grounds in search of Sebastian (Franco Branciaroli), the would-be assassin. The film stock looks grainy, murky, like a kinescope of some 1948 "Kraft Television Theater" production. Afterimages cast a split-second shadow on every movement. Then a sound is heard, a soldier arms his rifle, a shot is fired-and bright red flame spits out of the barrel. The sky is suddenly soiled pink with brooding clouds. Lightning flashes, and it is as unnaturally red as the gun blast. The forces of nature are gathering to announce the beginning...
...radicals in Mississippi. They're putting their imprimatur on the work of people trying to impose their views on the rest of us." Ironically, even P & G might be criticized for putting sex on the air, since its high moral standards seem to go into effect only after sundown, during the prime-time hours. P & G owns and sponsors no fewer than six afternoon soap operas, which are far sexier than the evening shows...
...thought that he was the only one invited and that a private chat about politics and policy would follow. It was a privilege to accept, and they did, though a few of the more orthodox Cabinet members grumbled that the appointed hour was dangerously close to the beginning, at sundown, of a major Jewish celebration: Shavuot, the Feast of Pentecost...
...beer commercials. Those ads are splendidly mythic playlets, romantic idealizations of men in groups who blast through mountains or pour plumingly molten steel in factories, the work all grit and grin. Then they retire to flip around iced cans of sacramental beer and debrief one another in a warm sundown glow of accomplishment. As for Reagan, in his presidential campaign he enshrined work in his rhetorical "community of values," along with family, neighborhood, peace and freedom. He won by a landslide...
...endemic sectarian strife. Beirut has been sliding deeper into its gloomiest mood since the civil war of 1975-76. Sniping attacks between armed rival gangs, unexplained explosions, mysterious abductions-the common currency of a city on the edge of anarchy-are on the increase. Shops close shortly after sundown, and the streets are nearly empty by early evening. Wealthy Lebanese have again sent their wives and children out of Beirut for safety. Says a leading businessman: "We are all waiting and wondering when the explosion will come...