Word: sunsetting
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...Interrupted only for forays to Springsteen's rapidly depleted refrigerator, the interview stretched through a pale Atlantic dawn. Then it was back on the road. In three almost sleepless days, Willwerth monitored Springsteen and his E Street Band through their smash opening at L.A.'s showcase Sunset Strip theater, the Roxy. "It was a good education," he recalls, "in the life and times of a road musician...
Skateboarders have been clocked on Sunset Boulevard at more than 42 m.p.h., and claim to reach speeds of 60 m.p.h. Southern California hospitals reported a 100% increase last summer in admissions of teen-agers with broken or fractured limbs, particularly "skateboard elbow," caused by landing funny-bone-first. To cut down the carnage rate, Long Beach, San Diego and other communities have banned skateboarding in the streets and parks; Hollywood Hills' celebrated "Toilet Bowl," a vast, saucer-like storm drain that attracts thousands of skateboard stunters each week, has been modified with antispeed bumps to slow the action; some...
...Hearsts received another jolt two weeks later. Striding showily into a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco's Sunset district, a black man and four white women wielding semiautomatic carbines announced, "We're from the S.L.A." "This," shouted one of them, "is Tania Hearst!" Unmistakably, the bank's automatic cameras filmed Patty Hearst brandishing a rifle at center stage in the bank lobby. Needlessly opening fire as they left the bank, the robbers fled with $10,960. Declared Patty's distraught father: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there...
...early decades of the 19th century, the hours of work customarily were, as on the farm, from "sunrise to sunset." When 600 Boston carpenters organized the first great strike for the ten-hour day in 1825, the Master Carpenters denounced the effort. They warned of the "unhappy influence" of change on the apprentices "by seducing them from that course of industry" and of the "many temptations and improvident practices" from which the journeymen were happily secure when working from sunrise to sunset...
Lately, the intruders have become so confident that they amble about in broad daylight. An angry Pacific Palisades resident tells of how he, his milkman and a passing motorist "stopped in amazement one morning to watch a pack of four with two pups strolling up Sunset Boulevard...