Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always, Reagan gave it a wonderful Hollywood twist. "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life," he wrote. "I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." The swell of sympathy and affection was instantaneous and overwhelming, from the man on the street to Bill Clinton. Speaking Saturday night at a political rally in Oakland, California, the President said that Reagan's letter had "touched my heart," and the news brought gasps from the crowd of Democrats...
...since drawn a near-tidal wave of sympathetic calls and faxes to his California office. Staff members were so overwhelmed by the outpouring yesterday that they gave up and went home. In his handwritten letter Saturday, Reagan said, "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."Post your opinion on theHealth & Medecinebulletin board...
...Cheever is our little Chekhov; like ragtime, he should be played slowly. The elegance and pain in his work need to be discovered gradually, like the bruised beauty of a sunset. These actors do get the shouting scenes right; their abrupt, strangulated outbursts are appropriate to people who have been bred to optimism and implosion, not to the articulation of rage. And Van Dyck finds wit and poignancy in her several roles. She often has the taut stillness of a woman listening for catastrophe. But the rest of the cast often pushes too hard. Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose...
Bobby S. Fred also uses an alias to run an independent record label -- which he refuses to name -- and to edit a post-punk zine called Bobby Is Fred. He makes his living stuffing burritos at a Del Taco in Los Angeles. Unlike wannabes who prowl Sunset Plaza looking to get noticed, Bobby craves obscurity. He enjoys saying his favorite activity is eating at such trendy restaurants as Spago -- by serving himself from the Dumpster out back. "Look, this is a nation of disenfranchised kids," says Bobby. "The reason we don't talk to the mainstream media is because...
...Mask is a scream, all right. But no mere live-action film could boast the speed and grace of the 1943 cartoon that directly inspired it: Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood. Catch it some night on cable's Cartoon Network. The Wolf enters a club called the Sunset Strip ("30 Gorgeous Girls -- No Cover"), and starts palpating when Red, in a scarlet bustier, sings Daddy. Wolfie goes bats: chairs fly, factory whistles blow, mechanical hands clap. And Red is worth every libidinal leer. With her Bette Davis voice, Betty Grable legs and Betty Boop bosom...