Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spokesmen cited several flaws in the EIS, including outdated information on the proposed Alewife Parkway station, increased congestion in construction areas, and differing methods of subway construction that the MBTA has proposed...
...second side is much more pleasing. "Station to Station" starts with a synthesized spaceship zoom that will become all too familiar by the album's end. The sound, accordingly, becomes more electronic; the musicians, it seems, were chosen for their talents in that direction. But the following song, a version of "Fame," is loose, funky and better than the original, even if it does take four guys to fake "TVC-15," a companion song from the album Station to Station that has Bowie growling lyrics about his favorite android...
Allocations in the grants, which are being directed through the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, include $66 million to help build a subway tunndel form Harvard Square to Porter Square. An additional $62 million will help fund tunnel work between Harvard Square and Davis Square, construction in the Harvard Square Station, and the construction of Holyoke temporary station...
...turbines that produce electricity. A small prototype string of rafts in the English Channel now produces a mere 1 kw., but its designer, Sir Christopher Cockerell, who also invented the Hovercraft, says that a cluster of 300 larger rafts could generate as much energy as a big conventional power station...
...emotional power. The art is one of indirection, of inescapable conclusions drawn from shadowy evidence. Describing people watching in The Summer Farmer, Cheever captures his own method: "It is true of even the best of us that if an observer can catch us boarding a train at a way station; if he will mark our faces, stripped by anxiety of their self-possession; if he will appraise our luggage, our clothing, and look out of the window to see who has driven us to the station; if he will listen to the harsh or tender things...