Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunset Beach, Calif...
...machina: a dea wearing ermine and riding in a 1958 machina called a Mercury. All this in the central Sahara, mind, and no explanations offered. The spectator can only assume that the lady came to the wrong oasis-she was looking, maybe, for the one on Sunset Strip...
...When sunset brought your fleet back...
Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...these days of Fidel Castro and the Alliance for Progress, the Latin American peasant has taken his place with the Mets fan as one of nature's most familiar and least understood noblemen. Silhouetted against a tropical sunset, there he stereotypically stands, leaning on his hoe and dreaming dreams of land reform and a greater gross national product per capita...