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ONCE UPON a time, there was a cinematic fairy tale. A fairy tale of true love conquering all. A tale in which the good survive and the bad are conquered and in which characters ride off into the sunset. Such is the saga of The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's entry into the fantasy genre. It is less than fantastic...
...left early for Reno, Nevada, for a brief visit with Harvard Professor of Ethics emeritus Larry Lounge. Larry's doing pretty well considering the stroke he suffered while freebasing at 100 mph down Sunset Strip with a naked hermaphrodite. He soon plans to open a special ethics school for Democratic presidential hopefuls...
...book Lincoln the President could not have seen from his window something or other I say that he saw ((NATION, July 20)). I suspect that neither Ron nor Hugh knows that Lincoln's office was on the southeast corner of the second floor, with a nice view of sunrise, sunset, the Potomac and the Confederacy. The current, ill-fated Oval Office was built...
...Daniel Inouye asked the question obliquely in his farewell address to North at the conclusion of day six. With perhaps a touch of irony -- it is hard to tell with the dour Senator -- he wished the newly minted hero and his lady well, as they set off into the sunset...
Nowadays what lurks beyond the sunset is the floodlit plain of American celebrityhood. Where do -- where can -- Ollie and wife go from here? The movies end with a fade because to show what follows is to demystify what precedes. Imagine Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly raising chickens and changing diapers in a High Noon sequel (Quarter to Four ?). You can't. "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished," laments Tennyson's Ulysses after his return home from heroism to sit "by this still hearth, among these barren crags...