Word: sunsetted
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...down the last of his doubters, at once affectionately parodying and paying tribute to the American heroes he had played in more than 200 films. The film brought John Wayne an Academy Award and a sort of universal indulgence to do, say or be anything he wanted in his sunset years...
...with Bogart 's Face. It's all about this guy who takes the name of Sam Marlowe (clever, huh?), gets his puss fixed to look like the one and only, and becomes a private dick in Hollywood. Hires a secretary who could stop traffic on Sunset but has the brains of a flea, tangles with a midget, finds a stiff by the name of Horst Borsht, and runs into a Nazi. You know, the usual job. This dead ringer has played Bogie in tube spots for Ford and Gillette, trench coat...
Abbie Hoffman, aging Yippie, on California Governor Jerry Brown: "I don't trust him. [He has] more colors than a Panamanian patio at sunset...
...have not had the expected: the drama of adult caperings viewed by children. Is the author simply novelizing, inventing characters and taking them for a stroll? Not really; by sunset the symbolic Sunday night, when all the characters disperse, Lurie has made a strong and subtle point. The book's '30s setting is a clue: Why not 1879? Because the author's intention is to show the narrow range of adult female behavior that was on view to a girl of four decades ago. Men were defined in terms of their jobs and women in terms...
...sunset people sat on the porches. As dusk deepened, the lightning bugs came out to be caught and bottled. One night I was allowed to stay up until the stars were in full command of the sky. A woman of great age was dying in the village, and it was considered fit to let the children stay abroad into the night. As four of us sat there we saw a shooting star and someone said, "Make a wish...