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Graham also says that Toomey has voted against handgun control, and against mass transit improvements, both of which she favors...
Wolff does fulfill his title metaphor, charting Crosby's transit and eclipse. He deftly dispels the romanticized view of Crosby as a lost generation archetype, but his emphasis on anecdotes rather than analysis reduces Crosby's short life to series of bizarre, disconnected incidents. Wolff resurrects Crosby from oblivion, but why he has bothered is never made clear...
...less one of them: never pausing in a particular place for longer than a day or two, breaking away from friends when I'd barely found them out, too often moving on reluctantly. It was pretty awesome how much company I had: all of us feeling trapped in perpetual transit, even though some of us knew we were slated to come to a standstill, eventually, in this house or on that date...
...moves as his refusal to call out the National Guard during the 1967 garbage strike in New York City. And in order to guarantee re-election in 1970 in his overwhelmingly Democratic state, Rockefeller was forced to take liberal positions on abortion, the 18-year-old vote, and mass transit...
...landing orders for developmental work on new Navy ships. Garry's most pressing task, however, is to persuade lenders to give Rohr more time to raise needed cash by finding buyers for its ill-fated ventures. If Rohr cannot complete an orderly retreat from the future of mass transit, its own future may have vanished...