Word: hissing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...
...Arena. A hallway gallery displays 30 of the 56 TIME covers on which Nixon appeared. Exhibits lead visitors through the whole saga with photographs and artifacts, including a hollowed-out pumpkin, microfilm and a Woodstock typewriter (the famous items of evidence that nailed down the case against Alger Hiss), and an old woody station wagon like the one Nixon used for his 1950 race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas. A 1952 television set plays the "Checkers" speech, the mawkish little masterpiece that saved Nixon's vice-presidential candidacy in 1952. Another television set plays the 1960 debates against...
Nostalgia is a great magnet for the iron horse, as is curiosity for a generation that grew up speeding down the interstates and making bicoastal parabolas at 30,000 ft. A train ride is a visceral excursion into history. You can hear, if you listen carefully, the hiss of escaping steam, the chime of crystal goblets and the rustle of starched table linens. You can see, if you open your mind's eye, a lone Navajo saluting the Super Chief as it pulls into Albuquerque; buffalo racing alongside the Empire Builder in Montana. On board there are movie stars...