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...fact that the “el” is an enormous, permanent eyesore that also doubles as a noisemaker. Or perhaps it’s because the el is, by definition, not a “subway” at all, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow over everything near it. Maybe it resonates with people’s impressions of gritty urban life, à la the famous chase scene in The French Connection. Possibly, people don’t like the idea of tons of steel taking tight curves on an ancient track a couple of stories...
...small thing, though something I hadn’t been able to do at all during my childhood. I’d approach the edge of the platform and look down through the wooden ties of the tracks to see the trucks and cars passing below in shadow. The sun would shine on the various, usually groggy people waiting along the length of the platform for the train...
Nonetheless, the specter of outsourcing has cast a shadow over some University positions in recent years, and it has weighed heavily on the minds of many employees...
...DIED. HUME CRONYN, 91, legendary actor of American stage and screen; in Fairfield, Connecticut. The Canadian-born star got his big break on Broadway in 1935 in the Three Men on a Horse, and made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Cronyn and his wife and longtime stage partner, Jessica Tandy, were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, and each won a Tony for special lifetime theatrical achievement in 1994; Tandy died later that year. Cronyn once said he found film easier than the stage, but less satisfying: "My heart...
...Purple made Jakarta a regular tour stop. The baby-boomer crowd still waxes nostalgic for classic rock licks and to this day continues to invite hair-band has-beens such as White Lion and Megadeth to embark on resurrection gigs. Subsequent generations, however, have forsworn feathered hair and eye shadow; the kiblat now is MTV. Seringai front man Arian, for example, is a senior editor of MTV Trax magazine and well aware of the potential of the local market and the search for the next big thing...