Word: trolleyers
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...that Judy Garland has sparkle, but that sounds paltry: the imagery of her life has always been more like a shooting star, burning out fast but brilliant. This movie lies at the zenith of her arc, anyway, and she's a wonder, starched and rosy-cheeked and singing Trolley Song with an energy that makes her creditable daughter Liza Minelli look like a radiator. The 1944 color in this Vincente Minelli (the same) period piece is gaudy, sumptuous and eerie-looking relative to the hushed or sheeny tones we're used...
...where several rapes and rape attempts had been committed since early summer. Visions of the next attack had started to tyrannize the imagination of the community. A woman I know from the neighborhood stopped spending evenings with Cambridge friends for fear of walking alone the 50 yards from the trolley to her house on the return trip. That memories of these assaults should linger in this neighborhood of mostly white-collar workers and students is understandable; in a neighborhood so transient that the entire population probably changes every couple of years, there are few reliable neighbors to call, few reassuringly...
...roommate and I sought refuge from the gloating Terriers on the green line trolley (you call that refuge?) after the final horn had sounded. The unfortunate thing about it was that all the B.U. faithful crowded on the same dingy little trolley with...
...Someone just dropped this," she said in a barely audible voice. Then looking away from me, and towards the back of the trolley, she tried to see who might have dropped the bills. There was a pause of fifteen or twenty seconds; it appeared as if the woman either didn't know what to do, or was beginning to entertain thoughts of hushing up and keeping the money. But she knew that I had seen her pick...
...tell the driver--he'll make an announcement," I suggested to the elderly woman. After all, I thought, with only fifteen or twenty people on the trolley, it shouldn't be too hard to locate the person, who probably just got on. The woman hesitated then moved forward in her seat towards the driver...