Word: sunsetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That desire has made L'Amour a millionaire. Like one of his protagonists, the novelist lives virtuously, if not primitively, with his wife of 24 years and their two teenage children. Their Spanish-style mansion in Los Angeles, just off Sunset Boulevard, contains a reference library of some 8,000 volumes within its walls. L'Amour is secretive about his age; published estimates put him in his early 70s, but he has the look and vigor of a man much younger, turning out three novels a year with metronomic regularity. He shuns the Hollywood party circuit...
...spare and his program simple. He seems certain to seek and is likely to get a substantial tax cut, sharp increases in military spending and progress toward deregulation of business and the elimination of needless bureaucratic rules. The mechanism that Reagan may try to use is the passage of "sunset laws" killing regulations unless they are examined periodically and specifically reapproved. There is growing bipartisan sentiment for all such measures...
...surrounded by wooden railing and decorated only with three hard benches. The platform mostly serves as the stable where 17-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses and as the claustrophobic office of Dr. Martin Dysart, the psychiatrist who must "cure" Alan. The performers move in a seemingly eternal sunset--the muted orange glow of Dan Scherlis' and Alexis Layton's gorgeous lighting design--dissolving only when we venture into Alan's tortured memory, where he relives his psychotic pains and pleasures in an evilly beautiful indigo haze...
LOON LAKE is political in an uncomfortable way. It is sexual in a strangely mechanical way. Its rhythm is charted, its course vaguely predictable, its ending a hollow punctuation to the entire novel. But its vision of America's past glows with more beauty than a lavender sunset over Loon Lake...
...fanatics, like the guy who drove up from Albany (yeah, 3 1/2 hours away), class of '79, to play for his old house, streaked down the field for a breakaway goal or two, hopped back into his old blue cutlass after the game and rode off into the sunset with a victor's smile on his lips...