Word: sunsetting
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...SUNSET BAR and Restaurant is located on a small street not far from what passes as a business district in Rockville Center, N.Y. A block or two away lies the local station of the Long Island Railroad where commuters come and go on their way to work in Manhattan. No one on an LIRR train ever sees the Sunset, for the trains move too fast for passengers to catch a glimpse of the small...
...most part the patrons of the Sunset don't use the LIRR. They live in the neighborhood, work at nearby stores and factories, and come into the place after work to chat about the things people always talk about in bars. "How are they treating you at Grumman," one man says to another as they sip their Schlitz and Schaffer. "Not bad, but I'm not going anyplace," he replies. A little further down the rubbed wood bar, a scotch drinker banters with the barmaid, asking how she likes the heat. "Most of the time...
...almost forget that all of the faces are black, save for a man who left a moment ago after telling a black man with whom he had been chatting to "stay out of trouble" in a friendly way. Just after he left, Deloros, the manager of the Sunset, came in and talked about the place. "It's like a club in a way," she said. "I have lots of parties here for the regular people ... we have pictures of the parties." She said that the police had few complaints about the Sunset, commenting, "We have some complaints...
WHETHER the Sunset causes problems for the police or not, one thing is sure: the bar and grill will soon be thrown out of the location which it has occupied since Rockville Center was a true village in a still bucolic Long Island. An urban renewal project has been grinding away in the area for over ten years, and the developer in charge of the project has told the owners of the Sunset that they must leave in a year or two to make way for a 175-unit housing project and an industrial park...
...ever could to reaching cautious liberal types, it still doesn't make it. The average man has been unusually well warned about this movie already. And those touching scenes of friendly, tough Green Berets helping oppressed South Vietnamese children and then leading them by the hand into the sunset are nothing that the tough realistic average mind equates with reality...