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Blood flows, existence is destroyed, and the shattered senses give existence as a whole its first endorsement, closing the logical gap between seeing and existing . . .And this is death. In this way I learned that the momentary, happy sense of existence that I had experienced that summer sunset during my life with the army could be finally endorsed only by death...
After years of sashaying across the home screen, the lean and leathery cowboys of the Marlboro cigarette commercials will ride off into the sunset on New Year's Day. The fright-wigged models in Virginia Slims' television ads will take their last mincing turn as symbols of women's emancipation, and Winston's abrasively ungrammatical TV message will be ending for good, as a worn theme should. By act of Congress, promotions for cigarettes, which many studies have found to be a cause of cancer, heart disease and other ailments, will be barred from television...
...yelling Chinese and the other Finnish, and you wonder how they ever got across the street."), but she can't hide the fact that her real love is buildings. ("One of the nicest times in Cambridge is about five o'clock in the evening. There's always a sunset over the Sheraton Commander if you look hard enough.") Not surprisingly, the warmest picture of the lot zooms in on Design Research, glowing brightly as snow falls on a near deserted Brattle Street. "Design Research," she writes, "makes your heart happy with all its bright colors." But once you start seeing...
...occasion for the party. Through the glass wall of his house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink. Philip Johnson, architect and art collector, scans his horizon with pleasure as if the sunset, too, were a commissioned work. The inauguration of his own special Xanadu is nearly over...
...Chet Huntley said farewell after 14 years on NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report. "Be patient and have courage," he told his viewers, advising them that "there will be better and happier news some day-if we work at it." NBC provided for Huntley's ride into the sunset of his Montana resort by presenting him with a horse, and that offered David Brinkley a chance to close on a lighter note. "From now on, when somebody stops me in the street and says, 'Aren't you Chet Huntley?' " said Brinkley...