Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With few exceptions, this is a train of women without men. Some are inconsolable, some lapse into abrasively catty humor. The car commander is Galina (Bettye Fitzpatrick), and she has more of the instincts of a den mother than a party official. Her chief worry is Katya (Cristine Rose), who spends most of the play catatonically desolated by the absence of her husband. Galina's chief ally in rallying group morale is Masha (Bella Jarrett), a gutsy fighter who can issue a pep talk that would blister a slacking football team...
Volchek's stage effects are admirable, and one is memorable. At one point a barbed-wire barrier must be erected to keep desperate would-be riders off the train. The barrier is set up, and then, with a slow, ghastly insistence, the train ad vances on it until all the women in the boxcar seem to be impaled on the wire...
Crichton's next project will be the filming of "The Great Train Robbery," scheduled to begin shooting in Ireland in April...
Chapin's recall is wickedly prodigious. Here is the curmudgeonly Heifetz going over ground rules during their first train ride together: "Sit here. I will buy your first drink. It is my custom to do this for my tour manager on the first trip. After this you will pay for your own." Later, as an executive for Columbia Records, Chapin proudly sent off a $20,000 royalty fee to Igor Stravinsky. The maestro showed up and slapped the check down on Chapin's desk. "Thank you for my tip!" he sneered. Horowitz might still be shuddering...
...were more than a decade ago when Astronomer Jesse Greenstein scribbled his poetic plaint on a Caltech blackboard. What sets quasars apart from most other celestial objects is that the light they emit is shifted drastically toward the red, or low-frequency, end of the spectrum. Just as a train whistle's lowered pitch indicates that it is moving away from the listener, so the quasars' light suggests that they are receding from the earth at tremendous speeds-some approaching the universe's ultimate speed limit, the velocity of light. And according to a law formulated...