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...THEIR PART, the two actors portray the husbands to look, accurately, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. In one of the movie's funnier scenes--the proverbial railroad station scene--the husbands cross paths en route to a train and realize they are wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...
...among you, and you shall love him as yourself." The concept of asylum flourished in the Middle Ages, when churches and monasteries sheltered most criminals from their pursuers for up to 40 days, until the fugitive chose either exile or surrender to civil authority. The 19th century U.S. underground railroad, which smuggled slaves from the South to safety, could be regarded as a unique American application of the biblical injunction. Sanctuary supporters also believe that their actions are justified by the 1980 U.S. Refugee Act, which declares that persons with "a well-founded fear of persecution" should be granted refugee...
Elephants, llamas, camels, and zebras walked a two-mile route from the railroad tracks near MIT down to the Longfellow bridge and across to Boston Garden...
...born in St. Paul," Wolter went on. "As far back as I can remember I wanted to see mountains, oceans--just see the world. I collected maps, railroad timetables, what have you." Once, he tracked his family genealogically and geographically, the German side that settled in Iowa in 1847 and became hide and fur merchants, and the more footloose English side that came first from Liverpool to Wisconsin and then itinerantly followed the lines of the railroads west. The boy hooked himself on the notion of travel, and in 1943, when he was 18, he shipped out with the merchant...
Take a dentist's drill, a meat grinder . . . Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. Make locomotives crash into one another . . . Explode steam boilers to make railroad mist. Take petticoats and the like, shoes and false hair, also ice skates...