Word: trainings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cool to the idea to begin with," Glenn confesses. But in the tradition of a military and NASA wife, she listened to his reasons for wanting to return to space, familiarized herself with his mission and then, as she had done so many times before, proceeded to help him train...
Perhaps the mood was so much rosier this time because there was so much less at stake. The First Lady's latest mission was, well, First Lady-like: to train the spotlight on what the White House calls "America's Treasures"--historic and cultural sites that have been so neglected that many could be lost. She began her trip at the Smithsonian, where the flag that in 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner is faded and deteriorating. Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half...
Picture this scene from a recent hit movie. It's night. A car idles at a railroad crossing, waiting for the train. Inside the car are a man and a woman. She's pregnant. She asks the man to feel her stomach--her baby is kicking. It's the kind of dewy moment that wouldn't be out of place in a financial-services commercial, or maybe one for tires...
...wait. Bam! The couple's car is rammed from behind by some bad guys in a van. They're trying to push the couple's car onto the tracks. Ding, ding, ding! The train is coming! Screech! The good guy accelerates, and the bad guys' van ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie...
...from the perspective of a true punk, it seems false and foolish to sing openly of love in such a sullied world. So tender emotions are hidden, which makes their hearts ache all the more. The Clash's album London Calling contained one of rock's best love songs, Train in Vain, but it was hidden away, buried as an unlisted track. On this album the song Corazon de Oro gives us a brief glimpse into singer Armstrong's heart. "What have I become/ Now that I'm alone?" he croons, his voice shattered and whispery. After an album...