Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Cough. When she was 14, she made her first trip out of Brooklyn-a subway ride to Manhattan to see The Diary of Anne Frank. "I remember thinking that I could go up on the stage and play any role without any trouble at all," she says. After school at home, she used to smoke in the bathroom and do cigarette commercials into the mirror, but she never bothered to go out for school plays. "Why go out for an amateurish high school production when you can do the real thing...
Chandler's "Nightshade" contrasts a woman, who lives in a world of "bright flowers and effervescent dreams," with the speaker, a night-person whose world is associated with the subway. This theme has possibilities; certainly the eerie and depressing nature of a 3 A.M. subway ride offers fertile material for the perceptive poet. Yet Chandler's images, completely unimaginative, merely roam between the prosaic ("The city is lonely after midnight") and the ludicrous ("There are flowers in the city of the moon: painted in faded colors on the subway walls...
Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News, had a sure instinct for the reading tastes of subway riders (he was one), and he built his tabloid into the biggest and most prosperous daily in the U.S. Some detractors say the News got there by peddling only the most marketable wares-crime, sex, sob stuff and baby pictures-with professional skill. But even the sober New York Times could take lessons from the News's equally professional ability to cut the "important but dull" story down to size. The News reader gets just about everything...
...more than a million people who read the book know, is the rags-to-nouveau-riche story of the late playwright-director Moss Hart and his historic subway trip from The Bronx to Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...
...when the Transit Authority heard what "Terror" was about it was horrified. The play dealt brilliantly with a pair of hopped-up punks who terrorize a subway earful of early morning riders. For an hour the hoods tease, insult and frighten the passengers. Yet no one dares do anything to stop them. Finally, as one leather-jacketed jackal torments a father with a sleeping child, a young soldier rebels. "Leave those people alone," he cries, and suddenly there is a knife in the punk's hand. The other passengers simply watch as the hood closes in on the unarmed...