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...dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track 29. Would you like a shoe shine?" The movie is haunted by old ghosts--even Adolf Hitler reappears with a wooden arm and a speech impediment as the village police chief. There is much more thievery for those sharp enough--or old enough--to catch...
...about the rules of scholarship, etc. I have always found that the other side of a giant, arrogant ego is a painful desire to be petted and stroked. Where else would that apply more? (Except perhaps on Capitol Hill, but there they have to get used to having a shoe clerk tell them what dumb jerks they are every two years...
...industry. To deny that right would be to negate a longtime U.S. principle governing investments abroad. Says Columbia University Professor of Law and International Organization Richard Gardner: "The U.S. for years has been preaching the doctrine that there should be broad freedom for international investment. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, it seems hypocritical to say that foreigners cannot invest here." Gardner's sentiment is shared by a large number of thoughtful U.S. business executives. "It's a free market, an auction market," said new General Motors Chairman Thomas A. Murphy last week...
...Snow continues to operate as the self-assigned recording secretary of the last gentleman's club on earth. There he sits, at 69, in his cracking leather chair in the corner, this son of a shoe-factory clerk from Leicester, watching the Old Parties of British aristocracy come and go, fretting over the State of the World, then settling down to a civilized meal as if it were their last: "Decanters on tables, lights beaming off cutlery and peach-fed cheeks...
...political skills that are universal and unisexual. Downplaying the feminist issue and opposing abortion, she was sometimes called "Ella fella." Scoring heavily throughout the state, she defeated her G.O.P. opponent, Congressman Robert Steele, 631,382 to 431,142. "In Connecticut," she explains, "I'm just an old shoe...