Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a simple solution to the problems of highway/airway congestion and frustration: take the train. I've just returned from a round trip by train, New York to Miami, and it was a dream of comfort and efficiency. Board in midtown any morning, no queues, no long walks; baggage goes with you. Air-conditioned coaches are attractive, rooms/roomettes with private bath immaculate. Porters are cheerful, friendly, solicitous, dining cars spotless and there's TV in the club...
There are still fine trains departing every day for Chicago, service to Washington is excellent, ditto for New England. And if the Government would divert to railroads some of the money it pours into airline and highway subsidy, we might even approximate the excellent train service one enjoys in Europe...
Poher soon joined the opposition, too. On April 17, his 60th birthday, he announced on a national television program that he rejected De Gaulle's propositions. After that, Poher crisscrossed France by auto, train and plane to argue against them in person. His home-folks approach on the hustings led newsmen to call him a French Harry Truman; it also helped to galvanize middle-class discontent into a decisive "no" vote. "Because one man resigns," Poher insisted in town after town, "France will not be consumed by chaos." He has been suggested as a centrist candidate for President because...
...residents of East Germantown, Ind., were evacuated when 61 cars of a 110-car Penn Central train were derailed, spraying the area with chemicals that set fires and sparked explosions. In Texas, 13 cars of a Kansas City South ern freight train carrying inflammable liquefied gas were derailed south of Texarkana. Six families were evacuated when a fire seemed likely. No one was injured in the two derailments. But the rolling fright continues...
...general way" is Black Cat's spooky atmosphere. It comes from Ulmer's constant shifting of weight, moment by moment, within scenes--continually presenting a new view of the situation, new moral positions and psychological experiences for the characters within the situation. Every successive shot in an early train-compartment sequence is a new camera angle; each takes in a new field of vision and a new set of characters and back-grounds. Any easy stability in the moral relations between characters is destroyed by constantly evolving changes of position. A feeling that Lugosi influences the young couple comes from...