Word: subway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week police arrested a train rider for carrying radioactive matter. Afterward a research facility said the man was its courier, claimed the material posed "no danger" and admitted it regularly used passenger trains to transport radioactive substances. In November a thief was arrested after carrying uranium-235 on the subway, and in December two men were arrested after riding with a stolen cache of potentially explosive cesium. Both materials can be deadly...
...want sex, as it's presented in television and movies and pin up posters, but at the same time we're told that it can kill us, infect us with disease. An advertisement with two people passionately kissing is next to public service warning about AIDS in a subway station. They're conflicting messages, to say the least...
This month the MBTA has refused to issue passes to Cohen, and has instead started selling the passes from booths on the bottom floor of the subway station...
...subtlest and most daring, Eric Bogosian, does that and more. A sometime playwright, he creates characters related by theme, in skits that never peter out. At his fiercest, he confronts audiences with the daily ugliness they try to screen out, from deranged bums urinating in the subway to drug freaks convinced that violence is the answer, whatever the question is, to smug suburban successes siring second families who want only to forget their offspring from Wife...
Ironically, the phenomenon is a return to the city's past. Before the unbridled freeway and suburban development of the 1950s and '60s, Los Angeles traveled on trolleys -- over an extended grid of 12 lines covering 1,500 miles. Metrolink and a complementary subway system under downtown to be completed in 1997 will eventually connect 70 stations across 400 miles of track -- a case of going back to the future...