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...prospect of traveling home via Amtrak looms large for many students from the Northeast Corridor. The federally-sponsored and seemingly always-bankrupt railroad has a unique sort of charm. If you like crowded, eternally late trains and continually climbing ticket prices, you'll love Amtrak. Every experienced Amtrak rider has had several brushes with destiny during the long rides to school and back. the railroad comes complete with a stock of weirdos, winos, and generally pitiful people, all of whom seem hellbent on telling you their life stories or annoying you as much as possible. The following characters...
...smaller, lighter, single-engine F-16 is much different-"a fighter pilot's airplane," says Air Force Colonel James Rider, chief of the F-16 test program. At $8 million the F-16 is half as expensive as the big F-15 and much more maneuverable. Although the plane does not have the F-15's speed or payload, it can outmaneuver any other plane in the sky. Among other advances, it has computer-controlled wings that automatically change shape during tight, fast moves, allowing a pilot to shake off a pursuing plane and most missiles in wrenching...
...your article "New Year's Mellow Mood" [Jan. 2] you say: "Easy Rider Peter Fonda is out of work ..." On behalf of Film Artists Management Enterprises, which represents Peter Fonda, I can confirm that he is currently starring in a feature film titled High Ballin', now shooting in Toronto, for Jon Slan Productions, and has been so since...
...successfully (to run alongside such other hits as the shamelessly treacly Annie and Neil Simon's latest domestic frolic, Chapter Two). Movie fans are in tune too: having rejoiced not long ago over a fable of apocalypse like Dr. Strangelove and a parable of triumphant evil like Easy Rider, they are today cheering over a heart-grabbing fable like Rocky and a simple-minded parable of triumphant good like Star Wars. Certainly the romantic mood appears, if somewhat dissembled, in the reading habits of the American woman; after years of listening to liberationists, she is devouring the adventures...
...years he toiled in small parts until foreign films gave him the boost he needed. Rider on the Rain, Once upon a Time in the West grossed hugely in Europe, and Bronson got the chance to be himself, a hard man of few words and strong feelings-lé sacre monstre, as the French took to calling him. "I can't hang around a mantelpiece in a tuxedo with a cocktail speaking Noel Coward lines," he says. "When I was doing character parts, they were so far from me that it was always kind of ridiculous. I never really...