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...story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch put it succinctly: A-B is "a symbol of the city on par with the Gateway Arch...
When I got off the flight, having said bye-bye to the line of uninterested passengers, I felt cured of my discomfort with the passenger--flight attendant relationship. A little eye contact and the speedy dispatch of my garbage are all they're looking for. That and the free flights for everyone they know...
...Global Dispatch For a new postcard from around the world every day, visit time.com
There's no such thing as breaking news when it comes to us from space. It's not enough for an event to occur; word of it must then travel to Earth across the vast ocean of the cosmos. The dispatch may move at the speed of light, but the journey can still take hours, years, epochs--turning current events into history long before we ever learn of them. Signals from the Cassini spacecraft, currently studying Saturn's moons, take 84 min. to reach us; the supernova whose cataclysmic birth astronomers observed earlier this year was already fading millions...
...difference between Synecdoche, on one hand, and, on the other, 8-1/2 and other films, like It's a Wonderful Life, where the hero teeters on the precipice of suicide, is that Kaufman's movie doesn't send in the clowns, or dispatch a bumbling angel, But the movie is less forgiving of Caden than 8-1/2 is of Guido. Kaufman says that life is a series of lost chances, of doors closing, until some unseen prompter whispers a final word in your ear: "Die." The apparent bleakness of the film's ending - which is the ending...