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When hand-stoked coal drove Old 97 down that mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville, the brawny fireman was as essential as the engineer himself. Sweatily, he swung the heavy scoop between the clanking tender and the hellish firebox, pausing only rarely to rest his arm on the ledge of the left-hand window. But Old 97 and almost all the other steam locomotives have given way on U.S. and Canadian railroads to unsung diesels...
Beyond the shaky world of politics, Nepal lives as if nothing would ever change very much. Of its 10 million people, 97% are illiterate, and most are peasants who are mortgaged to their feudal landlords for generations to come. With tender care they terrace the steep slopes of the hillsides, cheerfully trudge treacherous mountain paths with their incredible loads as they have for centuries. Today the sights and sounds of Nepal are still for the most part the timeless ones-stubby men in tiny houses, women carrying their children papoose-style, the faithful spinning the prayer wheels at the base...
Eventually, a posse is sent to fetch her back, the shepherd absconds, and she crawls contritely back to a tender reconciliation with the baker. I suspect that, having failed in love, she took to poisoning wells...
...when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades...
Malcolm Ticknor, whose facial expressions were delightful and Arthur Papas contributed some very lovely singing, while O'Brien Nicholas' portrayal of the love-lorn newsboy was amusing and tender. The ensemble singing was, on the whole, very stylish...