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...movie world's first clear view of Audrey Hepburn was in a newsreel: the beginning of Roman Holiday showed the young actress, as the ruritanian Princess Ann, on a state tour of Europe. The world's final view of Hepburn was in 1992 TV newscasts of her visit to Africa last October - three months before her death at 63 - as she bestowed first her compassion on starving children and then her modulated anger at the causes of their condition...
...kind, inimitable and irreplaceable, as is proved by the actresses who tried to replace her. A TV remake of "Roman Holiday" starred Catherine Oxenberg, a Yugoslav princess, and lineal descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia. Julia Ormond had Audrey's role in a "Sabrina" remake; Thandie Newton took her part in "The Trouble With Charlie", a very distant approximation of "Charade". And Jessica Love Hewitt starred seven years ago in "The Audrey Hepburn Story". All were put in the shade by Audrey's ghost. Who'd dare? Why bother...
...tracks were sliding into decades of spectacular decay that was also a kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away all around it. But in the '90s, as real estate values on the streets below started rising, developers began to clamor for the tracks to be demolished...
...Texas city home to a famous standoff 5 Eighth letter of the Greek alphabet 10 Each 14 Modern Persia 15 Home of Caesar’s Palace 16 Need for plugging in a computer 17 *Golfer Woods actually not winning a tournament? 19 202 in Roman numerals 20 Power 21 ___ Kosh 23 Simple sneaker 24 Setting for some of “A Winter’s Tale” 28 Finale 29 George W.’s toilet? 34 “American ___” (popular show) 35 “Gloria in Excelsis...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” (History...