Word: train
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...Saturday. Residents who had no other means to get out of the city were allowed to bring one bag and a pet in a carrier to various locations where they could board city buses that took them to the Union Passenger Terminal, the city's bus and train station. Officials worked all night to process residents there, and by Sunday morning, the city had processed more than 10,000 residents to get out by bus or train. Those on the buses were being taken to shelters in Shreveport, Monroe or Alexandria. Those on the train and chartered planes, including tourists...
...power. They are happy with divided government, so long as that government can deliver results. The convention's hammering on Obama should be targeted at these voters and portray Obama as an unapologetic liberal who will team up with congressional Democrats to put Washington on a runaway train of pent-up left-wing legislative appetites. That will surely cause moderate ticket splitters to think twice about a President Obama. But the vital issue is how McCain sells himself. He must show these fickle voters that a McCain Administration will be something they can live with: independent, effective and not stridently...
...time everyone was inside the hall, however, the self-destructive spirit of anti-Obama dissent had drained away. When New York's turn came to vote, Clinton moved to suspend the roll call and select Obama by acclamation. The band played Love Train. And so it was that Barack Obama - human jigsaw puzzle of races and ethnicities - became the first African-American standard-bearer of a major party. There were many black faces with tears rolling down them, and even though Obama plays down the historic nature of his achievement, it's clear that a lot of people...
With the speech just hours away, you could make a list of other questions he might have asked: Will the moan of train whistles distract the audience? What about stadium acoustics? How does this rock-star venue fit with the convention theme that Obama is just "one of us"? And will the Republicans have a field day with the faux-marble stage set? (The answer to that one is yes - they've dubbed it the Temple of Obama, a.k.a. the Barackopolis, and are offering fashion tips on appropriate togas to wear...
...critic and, not incidentally, a serious film connoisseur. Richard e-mails me that Manny "frequently did these bird's-eye views (I call them table tops) in which the whole canvas is filled with figures, houses, objects, photographs, all seen from above, and frequently (not always) connected by train track that carries your eye all around the canvas. They always struck me as being like his writing about movies, where he puts before you this world of bright particulars picked out by his magpie eye and connected by his very original train of thought...