Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lincoln Center and San Francisco's Cannery all audition or actually hire them for scheduled performances. In Boston, a nonprofit group called Articulture Inc. deploys street musicians at three subway stops during rush hours, which "lowers the collective blood pressure." Currently, commuters at the Park Street station are bemused to encounter Nancy Feins strumming the strains of C.P.E. Bach on the harp. "One woman asked me if this was a harpsichord," says Feins. "Another person swore it was the inside of a piano...
There were no echoes of decency at the next stop, a short bus ride from Warsaw. In 1943 the outside of Treblinka was designed like a Hollywood set to assuage the arriving victims and make them easier to manage. Bewildered Jews, released from cattle cars, saw a mock railroad station, complete with buffet and flower beds. Hours later the passengers were forced to strip and take "showers." They were crammed into gas chambers so tightly that babies were often thrust in over the heads of adults. The doors were then closed and the gas jets turned on. There were...
Federal Judge Irving Hill likes to recall that his uncle, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant to the U.S., went to a railroad station in New York City, plunked down his savings and asked for a ticket west, as far as his money would take him. That turned out to be Lincoln, Neb. Hill's father, arriving from the Ukraine "with less than a buck in his pocket," followed, and it was in Lincoln that Hill was born and raised...
...played by Bald win Baas); finally they calm down and accept their leader's authority. The film's ominous finale shows the conductor barking Hitler-like commands to his now submissive charges. In other words, Fellini is making the conservative point that revolution is but a way station on the route to fascism...
...naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...