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...fleet of five railcars make up the Sierra Madre Express. From the train's dome car, called the Tucson, and the Divisadero car, an open observation deck, you can gaze upon rivers with rushing waterfalls as well as lush bird life and wildflowers. For the eight-day, seven-night excursion, prices begin at $2,545, and you sleep two nights aboard plush, vintage cars with names like the Arizona and the Chile Verde. On remaining nights, you stay in Tucson, Ariz., and Divisadero and Cerocahui in Mexico...
Every candidate since Truman has had a train ride or two, but most of those have been nostalgic photo ops designed to relieve the monotony of modern airports, programmed motorcades and polished television studios. Lady Bird Johnson led a first ever First Lady's whistle-stop through the South for four days in 1964. There have been no follow...
Ghost Dog finds its behavioral rhythm in the commanding stillness and loping gait of Whitaker, the star of Bird and director of Waiting to Exhale, who perfectly embodies Jarmusch's anachronistic antihero. The director knew that Whitaker had nailed the part one day when they met to talk about a complex swordplay scene on Ghost Dog's roof. "So we're walking from my loft in the east Bowery to East River Park," Jarmusch recalls. "Forest has his sword in his knapsack. We get to the park, and he says, 'Let me just show you a few things...
Walter Kirn hit the nail on the head in "Will Teenagers Disappear?" [VISIONS 21, Feb. 21]. Kirn noted that an adolescent with his or her own money is not a teenager but a "capitalist early bird out to get the worm." I am in the ninth grade, and I already have a yearly income of about $12,000. I own more than 20 websites and online businesses. At age 12, I was making more business decisions than many adults do. It makes me sick when my teachers treat me like an inferior who needs to be whipped into shape...
Past six o'clock, Littlebrook was still there, tending for an injured bird and watching the geese retreat towards the water as night fell...