Word: sunsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROMANCE WITH a twist: Boy meets girl, boy gives girl bomb, boy loses girl. And, like a good love story, it ends with boy and girl walking off happily into the sunset. In between the meeting and the losing, however, there's so much plot that if you blink, you might be permanently in the dark. But if you don't mind a movie that makes you think (or if you've read the John Le Carre novel), the film version of Little Drummer Girl is worth the extra effort...
...Arlesian orchard foaming into April bloom is to glimpse Van Gogh rendering them ("Absolutely clear ... A frenzy of impastos of the faintest yellow and lilac on the original white mass"). Even his symbolism leaves its traces. One cannot see the purple underlights in ploughed furrows against the sunset without thinking of the strange, dull mauve luminescence that persvades the earth in The Sower, helping suggest that this dark creature fecundating the soil under the citron disk of the declining sun is some kind of local deity, an agrestic harvest god. One apple tree will evoke the Japanese roots...
...official emphasized that the sunset celebration was paid for by the agency's employees, not the Government. But, he quipped, "even if we did use taxpayers' money, what could they do-shut us down...
...this Saturday morning. In a fantasy urban setting, the comedian will cavort with the Krofft puppets, tell stories about his own childhood, and impersonate several characters, including Chills, a hip saxophone player, and Carlotta, a savvy fortuneteller. The weekly half-hour may be a long way from the Sunset Strip, but it's not in Captain Kangaroo's neighborhood either...
...gives its citizens almost nothing in which they can take pride. Absent are the Greenwich Villages, the movies, the Sunset Strips, the Lakeshore Drives, and the Faneuil Halls...