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...Transit Gloria...
...Apollo 8 movie sequences also include pictures of a reddish earth (shot through a filter on the navigation transit) glowing in the black sky. As Apollo orbits the moon in a nose-down position, the movies show the barren landscape flashing by only 70 miles below, then seemingly reversing in a dizzying maneuver as the capsule rolls into a new attitude. In other color shots, inside the cabin, viewers can see dimly the astronauts shooting pictures out of the window, a flashlight hovering weightless in mid-cabin and finally twirling into place after being nudged by an astronaut...
...1950s. With a Phi Beta Kappa key hanging from his watch chain-he claimed to be a Howard University alumnus-Simmons tried hundreds of cases, won acquittals for many an accused criminal, and was known for meticulous appeals briefs. He was a touchy sort who once sued the Chicago Transit Authority for $1,000,000 because a bus driver had been rude to him. His colleagues noticed that he took pleasure in berating prosecutors and judges. Simmons was such a high-powered attorney that he had occupational ulcers...
...other members of the Urban Council will be Romney, who will have trouble articulating any plans he does develop, and Volpe. Employees in Volpe's department, who have been trying to develop comprehensive mass transit programs, already have visions of Inner Belts tearing through central cities in the next four years...
...placed his new figures in real environments. He grouped diners'around a real table, put a truck driver behind a real steering wheel. For his Subway, he discovered that the Transit Authority was about to scrap a car, and trucked it to his old chicken barn, which he now uses as a studio. Dismembered, refurbished, equipped with programmed flashing lights and one lone girl passenger rapt in some dream of her own, Subway now transforms one wall of the Janis gallery into a vivid simulation of the flickering trauma of underground travel...