Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police had hoped to take their distinguished prisoner quietly to a government tourist house in the nearby state of Haryana. Mrs. Gandhi, who has often described herself as an Indian Joan of Arc, blocked their plans with dismaying ease. When the procession stopped at a railroad crossing, her lawyer pointed out to the police that she could not be taken outside the federal territory of Delhi without a special order. Mrs. Gandhi perched herself on a fence and vowed, "I'm sitting here until they show me the court order." Eventually, the police gave up and took...
...perhaps understandably anti-journalist and anti-mogul, since both have lately been unkind to Russell. But the representatives of these groups are seen to be so preposterously venal, so unredeemably evil, that one half expects to see them appear twirling mustaches and ready to tie Valentino to the nearest railroad tracks...
...EDOUARD MANET painted At the Railroad Station; four years later Claude Monet painted a similar scene. Manet chose to depict two pretty women sitting under a sunny sky with the station creating a bland industrial backdrop. Monet omitted the smiling women, painting only the dark, smoky blue train station; and the opening shot of Julia is a technicolor replica of his ominous image--an image that is repeated frequently throughout the film. Julia is the story of Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) and her childhood friend (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she christens "Julia," who together lost the insular beauty of their adolescence...
Daniel Lavette was born to chase the promise of America. He entered the world on the floor of a cold and drafty boxcar rattling across the continent of North America in January, 1889. His parents, penniless immigrants, were traveling to San Francisco, where the Atchison Railroad had promised his father a decent wage and a decent living. But while the railroad's promise proved hollow, the lie did not deter the father's son. Dan Lavette was too tough. By the time America's economic bubble burst in 1929, Lavette had dreamed, bluffed and borrowed...
...promise young Lavette pursued turned out to be as empty as the railroad's commitment to his father. Lavette's wife was cold; his children were indifferent to him; he had lost the only woman he really cared about--his Chinese lover--because it would have been difficult to take her as a wife in racist San Francisco. When the crash of 1929 finally called Lavette's bluff, he was at the mercy of the bank holding his loans. Banks, of course, were not in the business of giving mercy, and Lavette lost his empire...