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...question we carried into each of these capital cities was this: What effect does the celebrated industry have on local life, culture, business? In Elkhart, the answer can be packed into one little factoid...
Based on a true-life fable that was the source for Fox's 1956 film with Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner, the new Anastasia leaps from factoid to fantasy and turns pre-Leninist Russia into a fairy-tale realm. "We lived in an enchanted world," says the Czar's mother Marie (voiced by Angela Lansbury) of a land that festered with hot heads and empty bellies. The film then pins the whole Revolution on the monk Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd). Furious at being ejected from the Czar's court, he vows revenge, unleashes the forces of revolt, dies and returns, madder...
...United Nations headquarters in New York City as an example of the architect Le Corbusier's work. Driving past the U.N. this summer, I noted the characteristic window-walls and boxy shape. I was proud to have learned something useful in a Core class; I now had an erudite factoid for future cocktail-party...
Before I had a chance to ask her about the counter-intuitive factoid, she was off, serving the throngs of hungry visitors. Eventually I found myself talking to Steven, a young employee at one of the Main Street stores. He agreed with Heather's assessment, but was at a loss when I suggested the park's Christmas popularity a bit odd. He, for one, had no problem working on Christmas. And by the way, just in case I was interested, wages started at $7.04 an hour. "It's really a lot of fun," Steven explained, sounding like one of those...
...some point during the afternoon, one of my roommates came out of her room and told me, mostly as an interesting factoid, that she had just passed out. She had been trying to get something out from under the leg of the bed, and 20 minutes later, she woke up wondering what she was doing lying on the floor--the strain of lifting the bed had been too much for her back, which she had injured earlier while rowing crew. Strangely, I had been sitting in the common room and hadn't even noticed a thud. Neither had our other...