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It was one century ago exactly: New York City's Grand Central Terminal opened on 2 February 1913, and so as to commemorate the event, Alan Taylor published some incredible photographs of this iconic urban space in the Atlantic. But hey, you cannot have a real birthday without some music and some dance now, can you? And I've got just the thing: there is a scene in Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King where Parry (Robin Williams), a hallucinating homeless person, observes the shy employee Lydia (Amanda Plummer), with whom he has fallen in love, as she goes to work; and all of a sudden, the main concourse of the Grand Central is turned into a huge ballroom, in what may be seen as one of the most extraordinary visual representations of love in the history of cinema.
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