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...together, though; he continues to stay with a girlfriend who is into dangerous men. She is bored with his new conformity and attempts to “pull him back in.” Catch quality Goddard 30 years before he began making films and marvel at the legendary “tatami shot,” in which the camera is placed at the level of a person sitting on a tatami mat. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive...
...each of the big four railroads--Union Pacific and BNSF in the West and Norfolk Southern and CSX in the East. "People from all over the world, from Europe to China, come to look at our system," boasts Matthew Rose, BNSF's chairman, president and CEO. They marvel, he says, at technological innovations like BNSF's intermodal transport system, which moves containers from faraway ports to inland rail yards, where cranes can quickly off-load them for trucks to deliver to retail warehouses. BNSF, which handles one-fourth of the nation's rail freight, posted double-digit increases...
...racecar around ?Indy Speedway.? It was great fun, and I realized that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels. I was pained by a reflection while in Tomorrowland: ?Space Mountain,? the great indoor roller coaster, is now a venerable. I went...
...reading Jane Austen's Persuasion--a fact she announces with an impassioned "Oh!" from her sofa on the 30th floor of the New York City offices of Burberry --is fitting. She has engaged in a grand-scale persuasion of her own of late that is widely considered a retail marvel...
Most African cities can be dangerous after dark; some are perilous even by day. Not so Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, and one of the prettiest?and most architecturally alluring?places on the continent. Here you can walk safely throughout the city, the better to marvel at the heritage of great buildings left over from the half-century of Italian rule that ended when the Allies ousted Mussolini's troops from the Horn of Africa in 1941. There are graceful villas that seem plucked straight from an Italian hilltop, wonderful Art Deco factories and warehouses, and monumental Italian-fascist government...