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...turns on the idea of America as Eden--an idea no less enchanting today than it was to the colonists. The country finds Eden; the country loses Eden; the country yearns for Eden. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain described his early infatuation with the river's beauty at sunset: "A broad expanse of the river was turned to blood; in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold through which a solitary log came floating, black and conspicuous; in one place a long, slanting mark lay sparkling upon the water; in another the surface was broken by boiling...
Some of us may be hypocrites about it too. The other night at sunset in upstate New York, I shot down Seneca Lake at 50 m.p.h. in the bow of my brother-in-law's speedboat--the rumpled surface of the water turned pewter, touched with the sunset's tangerine, and a fine spray stinging my face like...
...Yaneira Davis, 20, a Rutgers student. "The attitude was, 'I'm going to touch you, and I don't care what you say.'" During the most concentrated period, as a fluctuating group of 50 or so men roamed the southeast corner of the park for about an hour at sunset, as many as six of them penetrated an 18-year-old British woman with their hands...
...SUNSET BOULEVARD and 3) THE GREAT GATSBY Swimming pool as watery grave. In the opening sequence of Sunset Boulevard, the police rush to a murder scene where a corpse floats. The voiceover says, "The poor dope. He always wanted a pool. Well, in the end he got himself a pool, only the price turned out to be a little high." Ditto Gatsby, which ends as Sunset Boulevard began, with police and photographers peering into the bloody water at a man, full of bullet holes, who had wanted a pool to impress the girl whose voice was full of money...
Anna and Parham remain friends, and when Anna comes home, she and Parham sometimes meet up for a drink at Miyagi's, a sushi restaurant overlooking Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Both remember Maya from afar, never becoming close with the super-involved, yet soft-spoken classmate. "She was a musician, and she had basically the same grades I did," Anna says. "I wasn't surprised...