Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Catch the Train. Much as Oregon enjoys cutting front runners down to size, it apparently has no use at all for those who essay politicking from afar. Nixon conducted a skillful, low-pressure campaign that allowed him to say at the end: "The voters of Oregon have spoken, and I like the sound of their voices." Also listening closely were the uncommitted party leaders, such as Washington Governor Dan Evans, who chatted with Nixon last week and then said of other G.O.P. chiefs: "When the train leaves the station, everyone wants to be aboard...
...This train is terrific," says Robbe-Grillet. "Maybe we ought to do a film about it." They proceed to rough out the beginnings of a plot into the girl's handy tape recorder while the express rattles along. Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant (A Man and a Woman) happens to be on board, and they decide that he is Elias, a dope runner on his first job for a big syndicate. Whereupon the camera picks up Trintignant sneaking furtively around the station, exchanging recognition signals and suitcases with sinister strangers and extracting a pistol from a hollowed-out book...
TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE by James Baldwin. 484 pages. Dial...
White Sister, Black Cat. This new book is further evidence that as a fictioneer Baldwin is in great danger of becoming drearily irrelevant. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone rambles like a milk train over the same run that Baldwin covered in Another Country, creaks over the same hard ground, sounds the same blast about the Negro's condition, rattles the same rationale for homosexuality: "My terrible need to lie down, to breathe deep, to weep long and loud, to be held in human arms, almost any human arms, to hide my face...
...follow up their camp version of Dr. Faustus (TIME, Feb. 11, 1966), Boom! is their incredibly retitled camp version of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. If possible, it is worse. Faustus at least had Marlowe's mighty lines, but Milk Train was not even good Williams (it flopped on Broadway in two different versions...