Word: transitioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cemetery plot. Into and beyond the grave, she relives her days feeding and changing her aged mother, dominating the mother with her dogged servitude, then slipping into reverie to imagine her self the sad heroine of a gothic novel. Is she mad? Is she dead? Perhaps both, or in transit between the two states, like the old woman Whitelaw plays in Rockaby. A child-dotard in her cradle-rocker, a near relative of Psycho's Mother Bates, she lullabies herself to death with the sound of her own (offstage) voice, interrupting the melancholy monologue only for four plaintive cries...
...Concord is a medium security prison that serves as a classification center for newly convicted prisoners. Most of the inmates are merely in transit to one institution or another, but there is a permanent population of about 50 to 60, many of whom work in the furniture shop...
...streetcars have attracted 4,000 more riders per day than originally projected. Fares, which can go as high as $1 for a full-run ride and are collected on an honor system, cover a remarkable 80% of operating costs. Says Dick Murphy, chairman of San Diego's Metropolitan Transit Development Board: "Give people a system that is reliable, frequent and reasonable, and they will jump on board...
Despite the scramble for new systems, the benefits of mass transit are not always clear. In San Francisco, BART has not appreciably shortened the rush hour. The record for turning blighted downtowns into boom towns is equally spotty. Although citizens may live in apartment complexes clustered around new subway stops, they are no more likely to go to the center city to shop than to a nearby suburban shopping mall...
...transit, like a football team or a domed stadium, bolsters civic pride...