Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunset on sumac tree all ecstatic beings...
This sorceress is named Pat Collins, and for practicing her hypnotic arts on the screenland patrons of The Interlude on Sunset Strip, she is paid a hypnotic $3,000 a week. Her two-hour act is as varied as the volunteers who participate, but the formula is always the same. Hypnoteuse Collins, rigged out in plunging neckline, black mesh stockings and assorted bangles, summons volunteers to the stage, where she addresses them in a staccato chant: "Your arms are getting very heavy, every muscle in your body is relaxed ..." Most of her customers go under like sounding marlins, but occasionally...
...back of the house is a 25-ft. flagpole hooked up to a motor with a photoelectric cell. When the sun rises over the Arizona desert, its light activates the cell, which sets off the motor-and up to the top of the pole runs Old Glory. At sunset, the flag automatically comes down...
...SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY (386 pp.)-W. H. Lewis-Anchor Books...
...white overseer who shot down a slave for refusing to obey. He tells of a 15-year-old girl who was beaten to death for letting a white baby cry. The slaves were helpless, since their testimony was not accepted in court. Most had to work from sunrise to sunset, and often longer. They ate from a common trough like pigs...