Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just after sunset one night last week, a flight of U.S. Air Force B-47 jet bombers streaked across the purple Guadarrama Mountains and slid onto Western Europe's longest runway, the new 13,400-ft. strip of the U.S. Strategic Air Commands Torrejon Air Base, 13 miles northeast of Madrid. Looking down on the serried ranks of bombers on the once-empty apron, a U.S. control-tower operator crowed: "Man, are we ever in business...
...soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything in his path...
...photography is striking and beautiful; every scene features at least one sunset, a device which conveys, albeit cheaply by more sophisticated and "decadent" western standards, the heroic mood that is the life-blood of the film's credibility. Carrying through this effect is the usual lyrical and stirring Russian music...
...task force damaged Graf Spee so severely that she was forced to take refuge in the neutral harbor of Montevideo. But the government of Uruguay would not permit the Graf Spee to remain there for more than 72 hours, So Captain Langsdorff took his ship out and, precisely at sunset on December 19, scuttled her. That night he shot himself...
...intellectual intensity of the authors can be discerned in the section "The West You Can Enjoy." Here is given a directory of places you should see in the West, as well as recipes for Western dishes, including "Apache Sunset" and "Son of a Bitch Stew." This is all indispensable for those interested in the West, but it hardly helps answer the question: What effect did the West have on its inhabitants...