Word: sunsetting
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...HIGH. "I doubt," Architect Paul Rudolph once complained, "that an ode has ever been written to a flat-topped building in the sunset." But in a recent issue of the AIA Journal, Landscape Architect Lynn M.F. Harriss points out that these rooftops comprise hundreds of acres of usable open space in the cities' most congested areas. Now a wasteland of tar studded with water tanks and elevator hoists, they could be made into green public parks...
...Buckley tune, its sound track laden with song fragments and snippets of news broadcasts, its pastel photography reminiscent of countless TV commercials. Monte Hellman, director of Two-Lane Blacktop, even appears in a cameo role. All this does not amount to much more than another episode of Sunset Strip angst, but there are reassuring indications throughout that Director James Frawley and Scenarist Floyd Mutrux are capable of better work...
...Ivan's suffering has evoked. As the day ends Ivan rushes to finish the wall he is working on. He leans back to see the sun setting over the ice-encrusted bricks. The camera rests on the image for several seconds. What is supposed to be beautiful here? The sunset reflected in the ice? Yes, they usually are, but Wrede continually forgets that the wall was made by a slave for Stalin who statistically had a very good chance of dying before his term was finished...
...says that Mrs. Hicks wants to make Summerthing concerts free. To set the record straight, all Summerthing events are already free and have been so since Mayor White introduced the summer-long festival in the city in 1968. The concerts which Mrs. Hicks is really referring to are called "Sunset Series on the Common" and were conceived last Spring to help make money for Summerthing in order that it might put on more free events in Boston neighborhoods...
...slipped his trolley-that he belongs in a laughing academy?" The old man is Joseph P. Kotcher. the academy is an old folks home, and the question is rhetorical. In Kotch, Walter Matthau plays a septuagenarian of shrewd independence; he has no intention of fading slowly into the sunset years. Because, among other offenses, he leaves the toilet seat up, Kotcher is eased out of his son's bickering household in Los Angeles and takes off for the Northwest, sightseeing and being lovable. Mostly being lovable. Wiping children's noses, helping strangers, and finally befriending a pregnant teenager...