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...ride the city's subways and buses, making the transportation network the nation's busiest, second in the world only to Moscow. The Big Apple's transit problems are as enormous as its workload: broken-down and obsolete equipment; rolling stock disfigured by grime and graffiti; rush-hour rib crunching; well-publicized crime ranging from muggings to people being pushed in front of onrushing trains; and to top it off, a projected $200 million deficit for the coming fiscal year. Faced with these losses, and trying to preserve a 500 fare, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority turned down...
...Argentina, before, during and after Juan and Eva Perón: "There is no history in Argentina. There are no archives; there are only graffiti and polemics and school lessons. Schoolchildren in white dust coats are regularly taken round the Cabildo building in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to see the relics of the War of Independence. The event is glorious; it stands in isolation; it is not related, in the textbooks or in the popular mind, to what immediately followed: the loss of law, the seeking out of the enemy, endless civil wars, gangster rule...
...last term courting in the coop. It's only partly explained by the feeling of being part of a stream of coopers, of having Jordan alums living in Central Square and Somerville drop by for meals or birthday parties or just company. It transcends the craziness, found in the graffiti sheets in the second floor bathroom or on the walls in the basement study room (the dungeon) or in dinner table conversation ("I'm in this course, see, history of psychology, and the main text is by a guy named Boring. No kidding. And when Boring taught the course...
...witnessed some notable contributions--foremost among them The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall and The Deer Hunter--but they were overwhelmed by a procession of disaster films (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), occult films (The Exorcist, The Omen and sequel films (The French Connection, American Graffiti, Rocky, Jaws and most everything else, part II) that provided the standard fare for most of this country's theaters during much of the decade. We tended to stumble into the trap of praising a movie just because it made money when our critical instincts should have told us otherwise...
...American Graffiti (1973). A band of young stars led by Director George Lucas creates a moving and funny portrait of high school life in the early...