Word: sunsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streaks across the Hollywood Hills toward the gigantic Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard. Molly pops into the dashboard tape deck a cassette by her favorite Los Angeles band, the Rave-Ups. The glove compartment is so stuffed with tapes it won't close, and the back seat is littered with the plastic placentas of cassette containers. The bikers and pink-haired punkettes hanging out in front of Tower Records recognize Molly even before she parks, but the mode is cool: a slow nod, a thin smile and distance. In one corner of the store, David Lee Roth, the motor...
Vidor felt obliged to present his solution to Minter, whom he remembered as a beautiful nymphet. He found a grossly obese sexagenarian living in a dusty % and heavily curtained mausoleum. In a scene out of Sunset Boulevard, or even Great Expectations, she answered his questions by reading poems, which all bore the byline of her hated mother. When Vidor asked her to confirm his theory, she snapped: "You don't know anything about it. Mr. Taylor was a great man." Then as Vidor pressed harder, she sobbed: "My mother killed everything I ever loved." Well, what good would...
McNeely is proud he lives clean. So what if he won't go to movies in which they take the Lord's name in vain? So what if Sunset Carson is his hero? So what if he drinks sarsaparilla at the Crystal Palace? "The people are beginning to realize they're either gonna have law enforcement," the marshal said,"or they're gonna let the riffraff take over the town." For his part, no matter whether he is reappointed for two more years this fall, the man is stuck on Tombstone. The other day, he traded his Winnebago...
...planned to meet with non-Christian religious leaders. Of the 300 invited, only 48 showed up. Embarrassed local church functionaries had to round up community leaders to fill out the audience. Later in the day, however, more than 500,000 people joined the Pope on a beach for a sunset Mass...
...dress showered with embroidered petals could seem, to the mannequin at the door, either an invitation or a challenge. To anyone looking in from outside, the dress draws the eye instantly and infuses the whole scene with its own tones of luxuriant nostalgia, the lasting afterglow of a perpetual sunset...