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...fellow soldier, and deliver her two bars of soap, only to discover that she is living with another man. And most importantly, he meets and falls in love with a girl of about his 'own age, from whom he is then separated forever in the hectic confusion of a railway station. By the time he arrives home, his leave is almost over, and he has only a few minutes to see his mother before returning to his regiment. A narrator informs the audience, both at the beginning and the end of the movie, that Alyosha was killed in action...
...spies. Son of a career Army colonel, he is a Princeton graduate who worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. In 1943 he parachuted into France to join a Resistance outfit. Later, he headed a unit that was dropped into Norway to sabotage a railway line...
BROMELL'S CHOICE of thoughts is spare and economical, but nearly always effective. The details--the way you can hear the hum of the island's single generator all night in a place like Cos; what a Habsburg railway carriage that has been reduced to second-class looks and smells like--seem just right if you're familiar with them, and as if they should be just right even when you're not. Sometimes, though, Bromell is too spare. His sentences can be too short, his transitions starched. But language and fine writing are only important to Bromell...
Unused railroad stations have provided a bonanza for thematic restaurateurs. In Chattanooga, Tenn., for example, when Motel Operator Allen Casey heard that the Southern Railway terminal was about to be razed, he put together $2.4 million to buy the gracious old building, which boasts one of the highest freestanding domes (85 ft.) in the world. The Chattanooga Choo Choo, as it is now called, has 2,000 seats and food that is as elegant as the ambience. Little has been changed inside. Diners enter through a ticket booth, scanning a big schedule board, and buy tickets printed with a destination...
...that time the Spinola junta was smarting under the illusion that plebiscites could decide the issue of independence; but when African nationalists asserted that the quest for independence was irreversible, Portuguese pretensions were exposed. In Mozambique FRELIMO demonstrated its military prowess by launching the Tete offensive, which paralyzed several railway networks and enhanced its prestige...