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Description of Pictures: When I was there, there was an art show going on. The "TV's for Movie People" exhibit was sponsored by the AMC channel and the School of Visual Arts (SVA). It featured 50 one-of-a-kind customized television sets which highlighted a particular scene from a favorite movie. For example, the shower scene from "Psycho" was represented by a television screen embedded in apparent shower controls. The fall-down-go-boom scene from "King Kong" was represented by a two-story copy of the Empire State Building with small television screens in various windows. "Night of the Living Dead" was represented by a screen covered by wood boards and bloody hands reaching through them.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. GCT_031009_028.JPG: "Jurassic Park" Note that each piece has to include a television screen which shows a clip from the movie which inspired the artwork.
2. GCT_031009_033.JPG: "Cast Away". Tom Hanks was also represented by one to "Forrest Gump".
3. GCT_031009_038.JPG: "The Incredible Shrinking Woman"
4. GCT_031009_044.JPG: "Wizard of Oz"
5. GCT_031009_049.JPG: "Silence of the Lambs."
6. GCT_031009_051.JPG: "The Shining." "Wizard of Oz" is in the background.
7. GCT_031009_054.JPG: "Beetlejuice."
8. GCT_031009_056.JPG: "King Kong." Each of the windows in the Empire State Building is a little TV screen.
9. GCT_031009_065.JPG: "Psycho."
10. GCT_031009_067.JPG: "The 7 Year Itch." This is based on the scene where Marilyn Monroe's skirt rises from the subway wind. When the wind is fast enough, you can see the TV screen underneath.
11. GCT_031009_077.JPG: "Misery." Kathy Bates with the sledgehammer and James Caan's feet.
12. GCT_031009_079.JPG: "Grease."
13. GCT_031009_083.JPG: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" -- it's the mashed potato sculpture
14. GCT_031009_089.JPG: "Night of the Living Dead".
15. GCT_031009_092.JPG: The police line-up from "Usual Suspects."
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Wikipedia Description: Grand Central Terminal
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Grand Central Terminal (GCT, often popularly called Grand Central Station) is a Terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower.

It serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.

Although it has been properly called "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, many people continue to refer to it as "Grand Central Station". Technically, that is the name of the nearby post office, as well as the name of a previous rail station on the site.

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Besides train platforms, Grand Central contains restaurants (the most famous of which is the Oyster Bar) and fast food outlets (surrounding the Dining Concourse on the level below the Main Concourse), delis, bakeries, newsstands, a gourmet and fresh food market, an annex of the New York Transit Museum and more than forty retail stores.

A "secret" sub-basement known as M42 lies under the Terminal, containing the AC to DC converters used to supply DC traction current to the Terminal. The exact location of M42 remains a closely guarded secret and cannot be found on maps though it has been shown on television, most notably, the History Channel program, Cities of the Underworld and also a National Geographic special. The original rotary converters were not removed in the late 20th century when solid state ones took over their job, and they remain for the purpose of historical record. During World War II, this was one of the most guarded facilities as if it were sabotaged, troop movement on the E ...More...
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