Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away -- wicked as ever. His 12th and latest off-Broadway review, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY 1993, is as up to date as Kansas City and as funny as anything that happened on the way to the forum. New shows (the flop Anna Karenina, Patti LuPone in the not-even-yet-produced Sunset Boulevard) are raked over the coals; old chestnuts (a frenzied Les Miz, a nontraditional Miss Saigon) are freshly roasted. The song titles alone delight (to the tune of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a mock Mandy Patinkin sings Somewhat Overindulgent; the stars of the Gershwins' Crazy for You croon Replaceable...
...YOUNG RICHARD Rodriguez left Mexico with his parents to settle in California. Now the Mexican border runs through his brain. On one side is an old country more imagined than recalled, an ur-land of fatedness and tragic history. On the other is a bright, forgetful America, where every sunset takes the day with it. For years Rodriguez has been negotiating the divide in a mood of deep melancholy. In 1981 he published Hunger of Memory, an account of his longings en route through the parochial schools of Sacramento and the university campuses of Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley. Still puzzling...
...Reagan's neck ("Millions thank God today that you were in the White House"). Reagan is the only President to receive the medal in his lifetime. He was plainly older, hair dominantly gray. But the message was the same: "In America every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone for a voyage that never ends." And the humor that carried him through so much adversity was still handy: "This marks the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the White House. By the way, my back is still killing...
Maybe it is anger--anger at the American people for failing to demand full accountability of their leaders, for allowing Reagan to ride off into the sunset instead of joining Richard Nixon in (at least temporary) disgrace. Anger at government officials like North and Poindexter for their arrogant--and undemocratic--belief that they know better than either the voters or their representatives what policy our country should pursue. Anger at everyone who believes these criminals are heroes. And anger at George Bush, whose disdain for the Constitution is matched only by his disrespect for the American people...
...last leaves cling to the trees. It has rained: the water caught in furrows of the fields holds reflected sunset -- sweet sky visible through holes in the earth. We cross the Bosna River and head into the mountains. There is a sliver of new moon. It looks somehow covert -- like an eyelid, watching...