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Maybe it’s an ingrained cautiousness in subways. Maybe it’s the psychological urge to follow the crowd. But more likely, I think, the force that turns us into Lemmings on the train or subway??the melting pot within the melting pot of an American city—is the fear of the unknown. The fear that the invisible dykes that we erect around our lives to give ourselves a sense of security will somehow be perforated if we show our humanity in unfamiliar environs...
...MBTA briefly experimented with playing festive Muzak over the P.A. system in 1989, and by 1993 the organization was looking into placing cable televisions in the subway??a prospect that would have made musical performance virtually impossible...
Maybe it’s the fact that the “el” is an enormous, permanent eyesore that also doubles as a noisemaker. Or perhaps it’s because the el is, by definition, not a “subway?? at all, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow over everything near it. Maybe it resonates with people’s impressions of gritty urban life, à la the famous chase scene in The French Connection. Possibly, people don’t like the idea of tons of steel taking tight curves...
...George A. Meyer ’78 took Steven Crist to the end of the Blue Line subway??home of Wonderland Greyhound Park...
...composed of rich, warm colors, but its overall feel is brooding and reflective. However, it is equally interesting to look at a small component of the painting—the area with the wall and the columns, for instance, or the central wall of another “Subway?? (1937)—and to note the textured variety and depth of his solid blocks of color and the sudden contrast but never brutal or indelicate transition between two color areas...