Word: sunsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beauty of Rio and its pulsating population are perhaps the most spectacular features of the movie. As we witness an exquisite sunset, we begin to wonder how anyone could possibly blame Rio. It is far more inspiring and life like than both the film's plot and its characters...
...pass around the earth. Slowing down in front of Challenger's windshield, McCandless asked: "Hey, you going to want the windows washed or anything while I'm out here?" Skipper Brand snapped back with mock military brusqueness: "No, we want you to get out and back before sunset though...
There is no tract of art history whose prestige has changed more quickly than pre-1900 American art. Not quite 20 years ago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard decided to rid its basement of a dusty landscape: lurid sunset over a forest-girt lake somewhere in the Northeast. Nobody wanted it. In the end Sherman Lee, the infallible pontiff (now retired) of the Cleveland Museum, bought it for $20,000. The picture was Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860, by Frederic Edwin Church, a work now thought to be one of the crucial American images, the very essence of Yankee emotion...
...humiliation to him and a vast inconvenience to her romantic impulses. For the oldest twosome (Beth Fowler and James Congdon), who already have three grown children, it is a bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such a stimulating glow into their sunset years. It is the virtue of Sybille Pearson's book that the principals never become archetypes, thanks to her gift for tart dialogue and pleasant personification. It is the defect of her writing that things proceed a little too smoothly. Some second-act confusions and reversals might well have been...
Many, of course, are familiar: Paul Henreid lighting Bette Davis' cigarette in Now, Voyager, a hungry Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert waiting for a lift in It Happened One Night, a mad Gloria Swanson posing for the cameras in her final scene of Sunset Boulevard. Others come as welcome surprises. There is a very young (26) Gary Cooper making an early film appearance in Wings (1927), and in a still from The Picture of Dorian Gray, we finally see what Dorian's naughty escapades did to that portrait in his attic. Sennett has the perhaps obligatory shot...