Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countess jaunted about in her sole remaining Horch-Pullman, her feudal subjects tried to gladden her heart by tugging their forelocks and putting on displays of their simple country pastimes, such as munching sausages, guzzling beer and blowing flugelhorns. To no avail. The countess subliminally yearned for some wunder-myth of a man who would kiss the castle back to life-with money-so that she could re-enter it in grand style and give way to those mad, scandalous fantasies that constantly invaded her mind, such as gorging on imported strawberries...
Many of the city's 39,000 people work in local factories ranging from heavy industry (like Pullman Bethlehem Steel) or small, light manufacturing (such as Arno Tape...
...Pullman beds and wash basins, folding out of the walls like part of a Chinese puzzle, still fascinate the children on board. In the dining car, the tuxedoed steward still seats passengers at tables with vases of fresh Colorado carnations resting on the white linen. There are Rocky Mountain trout, California champagne served in silver ice buckets, and afterward a selection of cigars and cordials. Sitting in the glassed-in Vista-Dome cars, passengers gaze out at the fleeting landscape like transients in time...
...unique opportunity for a diplomat to get out of the embassy compound and rub elbows with the common people, cultural exchange, that kind of thing." A congressional committee meeting in its ornate chambers to investigate a student uprising is like "chasing S.D.S. across America in an 1890 Pullman car." Judge Julius Hoffman of the Chicago conspiracy trial is "the teeny judge, who bounces up and down on his bench so that he looks like a small girl in an oversized dress playing in her father's chair." Says Von Hoffman: "I don't want people to think...