Word: sunsetted
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...Still others bitterly surveyed the salty flats of the great desert, the bare sands bleached bone-white, and in their bitterness found a kinship with the arid landscape. They settled at scattered desert springs and on scrappy desert fringes, somehow eking out an existence, comforted only at sunrise and sunset by the wash of crimson and mauve over the rippled sands...
...that can only be cast by the hard light of day merge and fade away in the wash of darkness. To bid goodbye in a dream: surely this gentle going is better than the harsh, hard-edged parting in broad day, better than a Scarlet-Stained. Passion-Heavy sunset farewell. Deep blue night; the hush; a cool, whispering touch--and footsteps echoing away, ever more distant in the dark. Delicate, right, no danger of disintegration, of seeing what we've loved shattered, bursting into bitter dust in the light. Enveloped in that dusky atmosphere of dream, the dream remains whole...
...Nixon at the ballet. Sitting cozily between them is Madame Mao, the fire-breathing dragon lady of the Cultural Revolution. They are observing the drama of a wicked landlord and how he beats the peasants who turn on him and join the Communists. They go off into the red sunset shooting, bombing and hacking their way to liberation and the new age. My God, this same Nixon is advocating cutting landlords' taxes back home and suggesting a generation of peace without bloodshed! Is there no consistency to be found in political experience? One sits in the seat and wonders...
...installed the pair in rented quarters on Romaine Street out near the present Sunset Strip ... I asked Hughes what he thought he could do with such a high-priced handmade car if it proved feasible . . . "Well," he said defensively, "it's really just a sort of hobby for me. If we put it into production, we couldn't sell more than 25 to 50 cars a year, and we'll probably have to charge $25,000 or $30,000 each. I think some of my sportsmen friends would buy them at that price...
...dealing the confiscated dope on the sly? That complications follow--from the introduction of heroin to a mock-up of the South Station to a climactic shoot-out at Walden Pond between the cops and the Mafia? That Peter and Susan survive it all to ride off into the sunset...