Once I saw fireworks go off in Mexico City, before sunset, and asked a local why.

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But take that same little camera to Miami Beach in the "magic hour" before sunset, and everyone and everything look fabulous.

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Too often in winter she failed to leave the apartment before sunset.

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In the evening, take a dip in the heated indoor pool before enjoying a cocktail and chart-topping sunset views on the rooftop garden.

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But Ms. Delpy and her collaborators, actor-writer Ethan Hawke and writer-director Richard Linklater, would go on to create "Before Sunset" (2004) and "Before Midnight, " which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles after an enthusiastic reception on the festival circuit.

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He is 65 and has 16 months left on his contract before driving his half-ton pickup truck off into the sunset on his arid, scrubby ranch in southern Texas.

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The lapsed Senator is really working those long, NBA-tested legs, partly because he feels good--his kickoff speech went well, close to 100 media types are covering him, and the latest polls put him just a few points behind Gore in New Hampshire--and partly because he has only half an hour before sunset, and he wants to lead us to the banks of the Mississippi before then.

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He asks the younger generation to turn their back on the responsibility to pay into the social security system, as their parents did before them, so that an even earlier generation can look forward to some financial security in their sunset years.

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Listen to the sound of rustling palms as you sprawl out under a thatched hut at sunset, and continue to stretch your legs-only this time, in your bathtub-before dinner.

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