Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speculation shifted. Perhaps the note was a cover for someone with a more personal grudge against Amtrak, the Sunset Limited or someone on that doomed train. In Hyder people wondered about a suspicious brush fire that had threatened a wooden railroad bridge, and a stick of dynamite that had turned up unclaimed in an Exxon station men's room nearby. In downtown Phoenix, authorities foiled two men who may have been up to no good with a railroad device called a derailer. National attention focused more on notices recently posted by Amtrak announcing its intention to end direct service...
...late '20s. His producer, who was also his brother-in-law, sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today's children gazing on the Great Stone Face...
CALIFORNIA SUNSET...
Indeed, the transition between the sunny day-time space and the ambiance of night is something to behold, we suggest timing your dinner to sunset so that you will see the different types of light...
...forget Lonesome Dove. It is not much more than a good tall tale, dust glowing in the sunset after horsemen have passed by. But McMurtry found a way to retell the worn old western stories of lawmen and gunmen. The grubby, lonely, smelly God-awfulness of the Old West fascinated him, and he raised it to the level of myth, used it to paint his scenery. It is no accident that Lonesome Dove begins, "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one ... 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking...