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...masochist and changed his name from T.E. Lawrence to T.E. Shaw. Wilson's comeback as Prime Minister again. Maybe soon he'll be Harold Chekhov. We're going to be the Brothers Karamazov. This movie is particularly relevant today, showing as it does the problems of a state-owned railroad system facing constant interruption of service. Wilson might learn a lesson here...
...turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family pride indirectly from his illustrious great-grandfather Colonel William C. Falkner (as the name was then spelled), hero, scoundrel, founder of a railroad and writer who became the doomed, quixotic colonel of Sartoris in 1929. Blotner devotes 50 pages to the recitation of every known fact about the old colonel, forgetting that what history remembers and what Faulkner knew are different matters. Faulkner's South was a brooding presence, its fading grandeur...
...result, Amtrak's critics are growing increasingly vocal. The National Association of Railroad Passengers is trying to block congressional reappointment of Roger Lewis as Amtrak president this year. NARP, a Washington, D.C., group that lobbied for the creation of Amtrak, accuses the line's executives of kowtowing to the private railroads that allow Amtrak to use their tracks. NARP charges that Amtrak trains were illegally delayed 2,398 times by private-line freight trains last November and December. "Amtrak is both fantastic and terrible," says NARP Chairman Anthony Haswell. "In terms of re-creating a public enthusiasm...
There is the film's beginning, for example. It is 1874 and a group of legally free but exploited blacks is laying railroad tracks under the hot sun. The white boss man demands a song--"a nigger song"--to pass the time. The blacks huddle together and sweetly coo Cole Porter's "I Get A Kick...
...camp. Lamaar convinces Governor Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) to make Bart the sheriff of the peaceful Western town of Rock Ridge. Lamaar figures that the spectre of a black sheriff will drive the citizens away, enabling him to buy their land and sell it at a huge profit to the railroad...