I realize that the somnolent crossroads has been a capsule of much rural Southern history: cotton and riverboats, timber and trains, boom followed by a slow dwindling.
The sense of a great flight — of crops put to the torch, of a ruined and shaken hinterland — is only heightened by trains booming underfoot, by the bleeping Klaxons of reversing box trucks, by the disorderly shoving of food carts between the stopped cars, and, above all, by the strangely focusless expressions worn by the oncoming commuters, who are seemingly devoid of ordinary consciousness.
There are some players who, as soon as the whistle went at the end of training … boom!
Frequently during the film, Mr. Petersen would gasp in surprise, laugh softly or say things like "Oh, I love this scene" or "Now we cut to the train station, boom," or he would comment on Cooper's almost eerie ability to let a string of emotions bleed out of his face without seeming to move a muscle.
With Japanese increasingly interested in staying close to home, domestic trips by train are booming.
At a time when adults can't get enough personal attention, the personal training market is booming.
"I get on the train and -- boom -- there's an ad telling me I need a Brita filter to make my tap water drinkable," he said.
Farther along the Shore, especially from Bay Head and north, where the commuter trains start, the boom is being fueled by a growing number of year-round residents.
Sure enough, ethnic-Han Chinese, many of them recent migrants hoping to profit from a train-related tourism boom, were the main targets of the violence in Lhasa.Even if officials had ignored such warnings, the protests at Lhasa's monasteries on March 10th and 11th were the biggest in the city since 1989 and provided ample warning of bigger trouble ahead.
The result is a boom in training directed at the rank and file.
Mr. Questrom, though, takes credit for helping Barneys partake in the boom by training the notoriously snooty sales force to be more friendly.
