Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victim of captured rotation. Just as the earth's gravity has locked the near side of the moon toward it, they theorized, the sun's enormous gravity had caused the same hemisphere of Mercury to face the sun perpetually, with never a dawn or sunset...
...longitudes where dawn could be observed during the solar reversal, the sun would seem to rise slowly until more than half of it was above the eastern horizon. Then it would set below the same horizon, and soon rise again before heading for a more normal sunset in the west...
...Sunset. A blue Buddha dissolves into a large grey Teddy bear that weeps tears the size of a quarter. A little girl stabs a pig. A little boy urinates. Sixty white gloves run run run across a table. Bits of broken plaster abruptly assemble themselves into a bust of Dante. An egg cracks and marbles tumble out. A python oozes lazily around a large transparent bowl in which a child is huddled. Beside a giant telescope stands an old man, his ears blazing like light bulbs. On a narrow cot, a nude woman sits giggling and jiggling while an enormous...
...which has to move as slowly as its verbal description; but the rather stylized battle he gave Titus and Miss Mandac was unimaginative and full of gaps in which nothing in particular happened. The abstract slides projected on a blackboard behind the performers added little or nothing, and the sunset that appeared behind Clorinda's dying speech was downright embarrassing...
...college sophomore and member of the younger generation, I thank you for realizing that not all of us spend all our time parading on Sunset Strip, on the Berkeley campus, or at protest meetings...