Sweaty, musical, melodramatic and political, Cairo Station stars ballsy writer-director Youssef Chahine as a homicidal newspaper seller in Cairo's vast railway station.
During the past seventy years, Texas has become a vast experimental station for exotic-animal breeding, a land of miniature Africas and Asias nested within what was once wide-open country.
New York State's top economic-development official has proposed moving the performing arts center planned for the former World Trade Center site and building it atop a vast subway station planned for downtown at Fulton Street and Broadway.
In the company of EVE, a sleek white pod, he is whisked off to a vast space station inhabited by human survivors that have evolved into a race of sedentary, semi-conscious gastropods.
And once Jim goes undercover, joining a gang of murderous thieves that's plundering the yard, he is able to look into the darkest corners of York's vast railway station.
The second, tantalisingly in sight but out of the reach of the masses, is Elysium: a vast space station in the Earth's lower orbit (filmed in Vancouver), where the exclusive few enjoy opulent wealth, verdant golf courses and a perfect health-care system.
His one consummated sexual relationship, arranged by his mother, is with Old Jin, the proprietress of a vast recycling station; she is much older than Jintong and has only one breast, but it is a big breast and has some milk in it.
GCHQ, the UK government's vast listening station, and other UK intelligence agencies declined to comment on the reports concerning Lenovo, which it is claimed has been boycotted since the mid-2000s after laboratories in Britain and elsewhere revealed vulnerabilities in hardware and "firmware"- the link between a computer's hard drive and its software.
2001 is about the big picture – the great gas planets turning, the vast space station wheeling around Earth – while Solaris deals with little things, like why a man can't undo his wife's dress, or why it's raining indoors.
A Northern Echo reader summarised these ideas in 1944: "As the traveller by train approaches Kepier and Durham from the North there would meet his eye in the foreground this vast power station.
