Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because rowing is so intense and anarobic, the oarsmen encounter pain, fatigue, and thoughts of doubts as to their capacity to maintain the pace. Meditation can train you not to buy into these thoughts so they won't drain your energy," he adds...
...Night. A train bearing more modest English visitors, Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, chuffs and hoots across the plains. They are on their way to visit the latter's son in Chandrapore, where he serves the British raj as city magistrate. Adela, plain but secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet...
...transport them in style he has laid on a huge retinue of servants and an elephant. "An old, old animal, an ancient, ancient animal, plodding on almost back into the past," is how the man who made the film describes the creature. But even this great beast and the train of servants stretching out behind it are reduced to insignificance by the featureless rocks that tower above them along...
...achieve the kind of spiritual, as opposed to literal, faithfulness to its source that Lean aspired to, had to be a thing of echoes too?but visual, not auditory, echoes. Image reverberates to image endlessly in this film. The early shots of the great arch and the little train lost in the huge landscape propose the film's overarching theme?India as mysterious and maddening cavern?and then Lean starts the echoes rolling through it. When Mrs. Moore meets Aziz for the first time, the moon is reflected cool and tiny in a shimmering pool. It does not appear again...
Many regulations for transporting dangerous materials have been born of disasters. In 1978, 23 cars of a slow-moving Louisville and Nashville train derailed in Waverly, Tenn. A day later, a tanker containing propane exploded, killing 16 railroad workers, Government officials and bystanders, and injuring 30 others. Investigators learned that a railroad wheel had broken and had sent the cars off the track. Later, the Government banned that type of wheel from use on trains carrying hazardous materials...