Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy, given the build-up, to assume that he's going in there because his buddies are there, the people who've been nicer to him than anybody else. War? What war? This is a musical, baby, and the soldiers might just as well dance off into the sunset. Something essential gets lost, but somehow it doesn't matter. Unless, as with most musicals, you muse at length...
...well after sunset. Some blue remains in the darkened Western sky. Jessie can see only the lights of his combines, as one by one they disappear over a hill. "Follow that star," drawls Jessie over the radio. The combines, like tanks on night maneuvers, head west, following Venus, which is low and bright in the sky. "We've got it!" Gary Coleman, driver of the lead combine yells back. He slows his machine, turns and lowers the cutting head into a rich wave of uncut field...
...Springsteen leaps into an audience, playing with them, strutting and joking, he cuts up like a star. Yet he also cracks self-deprecating jokes during performances and just recently defaced his own billboard above Sunset Strip with a can of spray paint. His myths are in his music, not in his life. The Jersey shore he sings about is becoming universal territory, and his mentions of Asbury Park are greeted with home-town cheers everywhere. But he remains wary of celebrity, recalling, "When I was a kid, what mattered to me more than the performers was the power...
...natural habitats for elephants. But young Thomas Downey, with energy and charm, claimed the place in 1974 for the Democrats. At the ripe old age of 29, he has a good chance of hanging on. In the next days he will tramp his district from dawn to sunset. He will attend the Mother Cabrini Festival and countless block parties. Downey will loiter at the commuter train stations, roll through areas in his mobile van. Every voter will be invited to a Sunday-morning tea at his parents' home in West Islip. Downey is sustained because the people consider...
...romance stumbles through a series of confusions, delays and double entendres, but love, of course, wins out over all odds. The couple walks happily off into the sunset, and the audience walks happily out onto Mass Ave, pleased by a rather thin but nonetheless amusing film...