Word: railways
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...souvenir from studies abroad. It was picked up from his father, a fisherman from the Cape Verdi islands who came to the United States at the turn of the century and married the daughter of a black family that had escaped to the north via the Underground Railway just before the Civil War. Gomes's parents settled in Plymouth--only minutes from the Rock--and raised their children amid the history and the religion of the old Pilgrim landing...
...ordinary Soviet citizens, and dissidents who have defended Gulag may soon be punished. Western experts believe that Physicist Andrei Sakharov and Historian Roy Medvedev may be forced into exile for their praise of the book. One of Solzhenitsyn's more obscure defenders, Writer Vladimir Voinovich, a former railway worker, has been expelled from the Soviet Writers Union...
...when he was 37. And though he is one of the more durable surrealist artists, his imagery-as the selection of his work here indicates-constantly hovers on the edge of cliche. The Delvaux "look" is unmistakable: an empty street of neoclassical façades, a 19th century railway station or a grove of columns, all lit by gas lamps or the moon. The inhabitants are nudes (generally blonde Walloon girls with an air of mild bovine derangement) who wander about, sleep, vaguely study themselves in hand mirrors, and are met by bourgeois gentlemen in dark suits and bowlers. Sometimes...
...easygoing Irish Bostonian who is described by friends as a "fiendishly good domino player," Casey earned a M.B.A. from Harvard and started out as a railroad executive with the Southern Pacific. Later he became a vice president of the railway Express Agency. For the past eleven years, he has guided the Times Mirror into ventures ranging from cable television to the manufacture of flight-training systems. The White House considered Casey for the $65,000-a-year chairmanship of the U.S. Railway Association, a government agency that will administer the recognized Northeast railroads. But American got him for salary, bonuses...
...witty ironic tone throughout the picture, even though its subject is the German occupation during World War II. Menzel, who both wrote and directed the film, centers events around a quiet young lad (Vaclav Neckar) who is at a perceptive, uneasy stage in his adolescence. He works at a railway station--the "closely watched trains" were the German munitions trains which had special priority...