Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, I was a loyal Bronxite. Adored the Yankees because they are the Yankees and only a subway ride away. Hated the Red Sox because they are evil...
...speculation that widens with the years." Unfortunately, this argument wants things both ways; a book can hardly be "only itself, apart and complete" and at the same time offer "a way of thinking" about historical figures and events. When DeLillo opens his novel with the young Oswald riding a subway, it is not as though he were creating a character from scratch; he obviously assumes that readers already have some idea who Oswald was and what he would become...
...1970s Mao Zedong ordered the urban populations of northern China to "dig tunnels deep and store grain everywhere" in preparation for Soviet nuclear strikes. Now the vast network of tunnels beneath the streets of Harbin is being converted into a subway. Other shelters are already serving as underground hotels and shopping centers. In the meantime, citizens of Khabarovsk pour hot water for their tea not only from traditional Russian samovars but also from colorfully decorated thermos bottles imported from China. Plans are under way for a Chinese restaurant, staffed and supplied from across the river, to open later this year...
Time for work. Low scudding clouds threatened the immediate appearance of Jupiter Pluvius, so I took the subway. New Yorkers commonly describe a ride on their beloved rapid-transit system as a journey through Hades, and mine this day was no exception. Heading downtown, I boarded one of the system's older trains -- creaking, crotchety and covered with indescribable graffiti. I looked closer at one cluster of squiggles, spray-painted by the ubiquitous Taki 183. Was it . . .? Could it be . . .? Yes, there in Babylonian script were the opening words of the Gilgamesh Epic...
...Evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker, anchored by Tom Brokaw. An ABC-produced cassette on the 1988 Winter Olympics is a well- edited recap of the Games' emotional highlights (and no Dick Button commentary!). And The Confessions of Bernhard Goetz is a surprisingly gripping tape featuring the New York City-subway gunman's actual confession in a Concord, N.H., police station...