Word: sunsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mongolia. Russian tanks, trucks; soldiers. Horsemen and gingerbread houses. Stand at window on, "yurt alert" (looking out for Mongolian round tents--yurts). Ulan Bator: Woman in traditional dress sees off granddaughter in cords with tape deck. Sunset across the grasslands...
...jangly cowboy songs and cruel chiaroscuro. Propelled by her screenwriter husband (who fades out of his own picture), her producer (who finds younger actresses for his casting couch), her neurologist (who ladles out morphine) and a curious reporter (who cannot escape the lure of decadence), Veronika travels down Sunset Boulevard to a dead end. Fassbinder's black-and-white palette turns neon into a soft, blinking Cyclops eye, slices light into flickers with an overhead fan, dapples windows with rain stains, all to re-create the visual style in which Veronika could feel at home and alive...
Donald Pappa, a municipal court judge in Asbury Park, N.J., speaking for many of his colleagues, says, "When these people come before me, I feel as if I'm standing in judgment over my own parents." Even retailers, victims of most geratic crime, worry about sunset-years justice. Says Linda Williams of the National Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting: "The people we represent are in a quandary over what to do. The best way to deal with elderly offenders may be through diversion programs, and not in the courts...
...made sure the family's flag flew on national holidays, and at sunset, his mother remembers, "it always had to be folded just right." At 17 he was doing chores for the Reagan presidential campaign...
...furnishings. Most of these hang on the walls: a chain of beads, a pair of sunglasses, snapshots of his three children. He has copied William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" by hand and mounted it with cellophane tape. There is a picture postcard of a sailboat at sunset below what Sy calls his "mind stimulators," words of advice on how best to study: SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, REVIEW, RECITE. Between the postcard and the sunglasses lies a poetic formula: "You imagine what you desire/ You will what you imagine/ You create what you will...