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...dilapidated bus, performing in small villages along the way. The other two films take place in Russia. “Bread Day” focuses on a town outside St. Petersburg that has been all but abandoned, with only a few pensioners left who every week must transport a railway car full of bread from a junction two hours away, pushing it home by hand and consequently contending with the disagreeable bread seller. “In the Dark,” the only one of the films that takes place in a city, depicts a blind man living...
...explicitly: ?We will not presume that a separate statutory scheme, which uses a title other than marriage, contravenes equal protection principles, so long as the rights and benefits of civil marriage are made equally available to same-sex couples.? The Plessy court couldn?t have said it better: separate railway cars for blacks are fine, as long as they are just as nice as the ones for whites. Don?t bother about that curtain between the black and white cars. ?Marriages,? ?civil unions,? ?two guys shacking up with a lot of All-Clad cookware? - does the term really matter...
...Kandinsky's and Miro's) until he had them fully digested, apprenticed himself with typical fierceness to The Studio, to its subtracted forms, flat surfaces and shallow space. After the Tinkertoy intricacies of Cubism, this was Picasso glancing in the direction of Mondrian, arriving at something close to the railway armatures of hard-edge abstraction. In 1936, after three years of study and effort, Gorky replied with Organization, his own breakthrough into a new understanding of how soft form could coexist with hard...
...three separate parcels to increase the auction’s revenue. The carriage house holds room for up to four apartments, and the separate acre of undeveloped land could accommodate a luxury cabin, according to a Sheldon Good and Co. press release. The estate was originally commissioned by railway magnate George Dunton Widener, who drowned aboard the Titanic in April 1912 alongside his 27-year-old son Harry Elkins, the Harvard graduate and book collector whose private collection helped found the library named in his memory. George’s wife Eleanor Elkins Widener—who survived the Titanic...
...current policies. "When the economy is growing so fast it's very difficult to complain," he says, describing life in the country as being "like a fairy tale." Even fairy tales can have bad scenes, of course. Savisaar is currently negotiating for the government to buy back the national railway, which it privatized in 2001 - a decision it now regrets. Plans to sell the state-owned energy company collapsed in 2002 when the acquiring U.S. firm couldn't obtain financing in the wake of Enron's bankruptcy. Estonia went through a brief recession and the government had to slash spending...