Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modestly observing, "It's not over until it's over, and I mean it." His mode of travel was similarly humble at day's end: he walked across the Boston Common from the Massachusetts State House to the Park Street T station to start his customary half-hour subway ride home to Brookline...
Also last year, Booth took pictures of the neighborhoods through which the Boston subway's Orange Line was recently extended, for an exhibit called Along the EL. Booth says he hoped to capture the ethnicity of the neighborhood, whose character would probably change in the future due to the destruction of the old elevated subway line...
...first, the strategy worked well enough. But then, as the subway rattled north toward Harlem, Arthur's demons returned. Even above the racket of the wheels, he could hear them sniggering at his fantasies of stardom, playing good cop-bad cop with his head. One voice demanded to be told where he found the gumption to strut his meager stuff before the same footlights that had illuminated the talents of Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight and Michael Jackson. A second and more kindly presence kept urging him to wriggle off the hook. The next stop would be his last chance...
Bright and unblinking, the marquee rose above the horizon of the subway staircase: TOMORROW'S STARS TODAY -- RALPH COOPER PRESENTS AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE APOLLO. Tomorrow's stars! He liked the sound of it. He pushed the stage- door buzzer and stepped into another world...
...Dallas messages stuffed in packages of tortillas urge Hispanics to "Act Now." In Houston, fiestas feature mariachi bands and free refreshments as a blimp hovers overhead with a sign proclaiming LEGALIZE TODAY. With means of persuasion ranging from radio ads to subway placards, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is pushing hard to convince illegal aliens that they should take advantage of a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Under a program mandated by Congress in 1986, they must move soon to apply for amnesty and obtain permanent-residence status. The deadline: May 4, though the Reagan Administration has extended...