Word: alleys
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...assault took place as Taylor emerged from a darkened alley connecting Museum St. and Francis...
Even the most laid-back easy rocker would find it tough to resist his live performance. Small, tightly muscled, the voice a chopped-and-channeled rasp, Springsteen has the wild onstage energy of a pinball rebounding off invisible flippers, caroming down the alley past traps and penalties, dead center for extra points and the top score...
What most of the 6,000 actually saw of their heroes was little. For the most part, the bleary-eyed ballplayers just moved right through a narrow alley etched between the bodies by the State Troopers, smiling and occasionally shaking hands, but never stopping until they reached the buses...
...introduced, utterly transforming a phenomenon that had been purely linear: certain targets or combinations of targets were designed to change the schedule of reward. Thus a bumper might at first be worth 10; but an entirely different bumper--or a set of bumpers, or a hole, or an alley--could increase its value to 100. The pinball machine, at first no more than a collection of independent lights and bumpers, had become a complex map of interwoven, interrelated features...
...high accident and attrition rate among Cambridge's automobile population is the lifeblood of the many junkyards on the alley--it creates a very high demand for used parts and it provides the dealers with an endless stream of junked cars from which to salvage those parts. The connection between all the cars piled in the yards in the alley and the personal injury and property damage that resulted from the traffic accidents involving these cars is often difficult to make. But, on some of the manged cars, cryptic yellow markings on the windshield tell the tragic story...