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Carrasco gives his charges plenty of incentives, including cash bonuses of $25 to the Corps Member of the Month and $15 for outstanding arts-and-crafts work. He encourages esprit-building projects: the trainees are refurbishing several old trolley cars to be operated as tourist attractions in El Paso. Alumni success stories serve as sources of inspiration. After being hired as a switchboard operator, a young woman wrote the center saying "This check will make me the first in my family not to be eligible for food stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. C., The Skills Sergeant | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Roger Rabbit careers like a Toontown trolley and boasts a technical dexterity that Walt Disney could only have daydreamed of. At first you may snap to suspicious attention when, say, a cartoon stork pedals a real bicycle, or Jessica diddles a human's necktie. But the film encourages you to vacation in its ingenuity. Drop by the Ink and Paint Club, Toontown's toniest dive, where the password is "Walt sent me," penguin waiters patrol in tuxedos, and Daffy and Donald Duck, together for the first time, perform a piano duet. Meet old friends like Mickey and Bugs, Tweety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...number of Hispanic leaders joined Dukakis in campaigning. They walked through the streets of San Antonio, took a trolley ride and attended a midday rally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis Focuses Efforts On Texan Voters | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...that has finally slowed to a stumble. Now Francis is an alcoholic hobo on the sad side of 50. He wanders the Albany streets on a Halloween night in 1938, cadging free meals and hoping to make his peace with the phantoms who beckon to him from every trolley seat, backyard and yawning grave. So many lives behind him, and so many deaths. A man just wants to rock himself to sleep and not wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slumming in The Lower Shallows IRONWEED | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Bishop Milton Wright lived in a circumscribed world of nuts and bolts. They took care of business, and by trial and error they slowly realized their dream of flight on the sands of the Outer Banks and over Huffman Prairie, a half-mile-long field on the Dayton-Springfield trolley line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heads In Air, Feet on Ground WILBUR AND ORVILLE | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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