Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Janeiro and in Sao Paulo, ecstatic citizens showered paper from office windows, leaned on their car horns and set off firecrackers in the streets. In towns and villages across the vast reaches of the country, Brazilians danced and swayed to the tunes of countless samba bands. The occasion was the election last week of Tancredo Neves as the nation's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule. Neves, 74, a lawyer and the former governor of Minas Gerais state, quickly promised reform: "I come to make urgent and courageous political, social and economic changes indispensable to the well...
There are 10 million more Americans in 1985 than there were in 1980, and most of them seem to have squeezed into the entryway between the doors of car 9132 of the Long Island Rail Road's 5:47 to Syosset, N.Y. At exactly 5:41 p.m. the last seat is taken. At 5:46 the standing room in the aisles is filled. By 5:49, when the train begins its slow, stately crawl from Pennsylvania Station, only two minutes late, the throng in the vestibule has achieved a degree of intimacy known in other places as close dancing...
...regulars ride in a regular car and get there on time to get a seat," admonishes a marketing man from the midst of a seated cluster of pinochle players. He offers the irregular rider further lore of the Long Island: "They have a total breakdown only about once a year, the kind of disaster you sense before you even get down the stairs at Penn Station. The crowd will be waiting shoulder to shoulder, and you will hear over the loudspeaker, 'Mmchshrum drillblitterich,' which translated means, 'Due to switch trouble, all Long Island trains will be delayed.' The only thing...
...normal day only little things go wrong. Like, the train never shows up. Or it shows up, but it is two cars short and you face air where usually there is your seat. Or the train has enough cars, but it stops ten feet away from the spot where, eight times out of ten, it usually stops, which means the doors open in front of the irregulars who have no usual waiting spot. Or all the other doors open, but yours doesn't, and you stand there and watch the car fill up. Or the train is under...
...conductor, Mike Eames, is proceeding through car 9132, tranquilly collecting tickets. "It takes 20 minutes to get through two cars. Sometimes by Jamaica I get through. Sometimes I never get through." He is accompanied in his polite progression through the thrashing mass by hostile remarks about the unions, which the riders blame for much of their discomfort. The conductor passes below full-color images of joy and transformation: a naked woman wrapped in a quilt leaning against the knee of a man stroking her hair, a brilliantly lighted couple kissing forever...