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Railroad stations in cities as staid and ordered as Grenoble and Lyons look like those in Naples. Among the throngs of stranded passengers, French families accustomed to better things share sausages and bread, using newspapers as picnic tablecloths. With rail traffic cut to 40% of normal, queues form behind charter-bus drivers showing their destinations on cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled...
...emergency, the minersqit week were far more interested in travel than in politics. At the Booysens train station in southern Johannesburg, 1,000 workers, some still in hard hats, others stripped to the waist, waited for three hours before the third-class carriages pulled in. A few dipped bread into tins of stew, washing it down with drafts of Lion beer and Viceroy brandy. Most were sprawled alongside mountains of suitcases and possessions, including sewing machines, stereos, furniture, even motorcycles. Vendors picked through the crush, hawking overpriced watches and brightly colored blouses. Girlfriends, some with infants strapped on their backs...
...furs. While guarded warehouses nearby were filled with grain, peasants were beaten, arrested and even shot for trying to take the few remaining kernels lying on the fields of collective farms. In one village, families gathered acorns from under the snow and baked them into a sort of bread. A party official complained, "Look at the parasites! They went digging for acorns in the snow with their bare hands -- they'll do anything to get out of working." Villages became ghost towns, with families lying dead in every house. Conquest reckons that the final death toll from the entire...
...awesome--10 minutes long, sustained and uncut, the camera moving with snail-like fury closer and closer toward the central characters. By the time we see their faces, we're desperate to, hungry to; Tarkovsky knows how to engage his audience: it's two-parts hypnotism, two-parts bread and water...
...Bread pudding. That's about as exotic as Appleton, Wis. This lack of sophistication may be why some historians insist that the great Houdini was born in Budapest. Still Houdini always said he was born in Appleton, observes Outagamie Museum Curator Mary Mergy, and that's what she likes to believe. "It adds," she says, "a little zest to life...