Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just 1 in 10 of those stations remains today. During the past five years alone, however, as preservation of historic buildings has attained mom-and- apple-pie popularity, 1,000 old train stations around the country have been renovated. They have been transformed into museums or municipal office buildings or restaurants. Happily, some of the old depots where trains still stop have also been refurbished: New York City's Grand Central is undergoing a / partial restoration, and in Wilmington, Del., and Philadelphia, once run-down train stations are back in order...
...death was announced, a Hollywood mourner observed, "Good career move." Never was cynicism more prophetic. The singer's estate is valued today at $50 million, ten times what it was when he was alive. A new movie, Heartbreak Hotel, imagines a '70s teenager kidnaping Elvis to impress his mom, and Elvis: An American Musical is touring the country this fall. An Elvis postage stamp is probably next, once proponents agree on which image -- that of the young or the middle-aged star -- should appear on it. And one can call an 800 number and get details about a Memphis bank...
...juvenile in contrast to the pedantic approach he takes when teaching her how to be funny. The maternal role she assumes seems much more believable. When Lilah makes a long speech to her family about her proclivity for comedy, her stab at poignancy seems forced: "I love being a mom. I love being a wife, and I love being able to make people laugh...It makes you feel special." The movie succeeds in communicating its theme however indirectly, when the characters reveal their thoughts on stage, and not when they proclaim their feelings in an attempt at emotional intensity...
...small farm children who eventually refused to board their school bus: "One afternoon, they came home on the bus and they saw the machinery being hauled away. On another afternoon, they saw the livestock hauled away. The kids said, if they rode that bus again, they'd be hauling mom and dad away...
...Beep. "Mom, Dad," says a 19-year-old, "I'm sorry, but I'm gay. And I will never, never change." Beep. "I just want to say I'm sorry," sobs a young woman, who says she caused an automobile accident that killed five people. "I wish I could bring them back." Beep. "I wish I had someone to share this with," murmurs a man, revealing the secret pleasure he gets from wearing his wife's clothing...