Word: subways
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...never judgmental or bitter about what had happened in childhood. Now the brothers talk regularly. They visit each other every few months and have realized they have the same sense of humor, the same taste for adventure, and they notice the same things--someone's weird shoes on the subway or a cute woman...
Then, like subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, I'd calmly get up and stroll over to him, mumbling, "You don't look so bad," and hit the button a few more times. The other passengers on the now weirdly quiet train would turn to one another and ask, "Who was that...
...birthplace of Chicago was an outer borough of New York City. It bordered on the sacrilegious to don a Yankees cap when she had been a well-known Chicago Cubs fan. It remained such a toxic moment that she couldn't risk taking the D train to the Subway Series to join in the purest of Big Apple moments. Rather than the usual grip and grin, she embarked on a listening tour, looking at times like Margaret Mead visiting the Samoans. A Big Apple neophyte, she bungled interest-group politics with a notorious flip-flop on clemency for unrepentant Puerto...
When Count Alexis Vronsky first sees Anna in Anna Karenina, she is scanning the crowd from the doorway of a train car. The first encounter between Antoine and Angele, the protagonists of Venus Beauty Institute, also occurs in a train station-a subway station in Paris. In the book, Anna Karenina's "shining gray eyes rested with friendly attention on Vronsky's face, as though she were recognizing him, and then promptly turned away to the passing crowd, as though seeking someone." In the movie, Angele runs after a train and screams at one of its passengers, "you dumped...
...starting to lose my temper. All I know is that the next person who tries to kiss up, I'm going to set on fire... Wasn't Citystep surreal? But by the time you got your bearings and had a chance to hook up in the mini subway car exhibit, the damn thing was over. Too short, too many 50-buck hair styles (I'm applying for UC grant to start an Anti-Tendril Association), wayyyy too many freshmen... One of my friends spotted a poster for the College Democrats reading "What Would Harry Potter Do? Vote for Al Gore...