Word: subway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parts of Paris. One blew in the windows of the Soviet news agency, Tass. At week's end a one-hour workers' strike to protest the police methods used to break up the Bastille demonstration stalled Parisian industry and business. City and suburban buses halted, the Paris subway and commuter train service was affected. Actress Brigitte Bardot, who had won respect last November by publicly defying an S.A.O. blackmail attempt, walked off a movie set along with film technicians...
Freud is not mocked. Next morning, on the subway, the smell and pressure of flesh make her sick with disgust. Dread like suppuration oozes from the deep, unmedicated wound in her mind. She sinks into fevered apathy, and one day in a daze almost jumps off-does it always have to be a bridge? Anyway, a big dumb slob of a grease monkey (Ralph Meeker) grabs her just in time...
...renowned duomo now have to fight for recognition against a skyline of striking new skyscrapers. From the Piazza del Duomo rises the bedlam that only Italian traffic can generate. In front of the cathedral's stately bronze doors Milan is digging an entrance for its new subway. Everywhere Milanese businessmen move at dogtrot pace in a furious pursuit of profits, and lavish restaurants, such as Giannino, have geared their cuisine and prices to help them spend...
...Broadway Pressagent Richard Maney summarizes the whole matter in his book Fanfare: "Billing is the ne plus ultra, the be-all and end-all of the theater's children. To achieve it they will sacrifice their young, slash their salaries, forage for food and sleep in the subway. To maintain or enhance it, they'll stop at nothing short of murder...
...Subways Are for Sleeping jumped the gun on Transport Chief Michael Quill's threatened New Year's Day subway strike in New York. Five days earlier this musical staged a song slowdown, a dance walkout and a star lockout, and then sat down on its flat, flat book...