Word: oyster
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...large chiming clock. "So you're stuck belly to belly with a stranger. At least you're with the nicest commuters." He does not mean nicer than Chicago commuters, or even Connecticut commuters. He is a branch-line chauvinist, and he means nicer than the commuters on the Oyster Bay line or the Ronkonkoma line...
...commuter who gets a seat, salvation is a card game. Pinochle and hearts are played on the Syosset line, bridge on the Port Washington line. On the Oyster Bay line sanity is preserved by a swift suppression of sociability. The man standing with the chiming clock says that not enough of his usual players showed up tonight. Day after day, week after week, month after month, for 17 years, he has been playing pinochle with the same people. Are they friends, godfathers to one another's children, comforters in sorrow, celebrators in joy? "No, off the train we dislike each...
...improvement. Last year 88.5% of the trains arrived within five minutes of the schedule--up 6% since 1979. It may be better than it was in the '70s, but it is not yet as good as it was in 1902, when Teddy Roosevelt's summer White House lay in Oyster Bay at the end of the North Shore line, and the service was bully...
...Yankelovich. "Mondale was the personification of the social ethic of self- denial. He is the 1950s. For many of these young people, he came across as a nagging parent: 'You have to get a job, you have to pay taxes.' But Reagan's message is, 'The world's your oyster. Go out and get what you want...
...sense, this is an unromantic, even radical film. The artist, it suggests, is also a functioning member of society. He need not be a diseased oyster or a frail hothouse plant or an emotional prairie fire that scorches the earth searching for truth. He must be both an observer of and a participant in the life of his family, his environment and traditions. And so, like any father, Monsieur can play favorites with his children, finding small pleasure in the weekly visits of his dutiful son, gasping for the breath of fresh life the mercurial Irène brings with...