Word: asphalting
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...Starks had thrown down like that on the chain-link playgrounds down at Greenwich Avenue or on the asphalt along the West Side Drive, Grant and Jordan would have been forced to leave, their places taken by someone else who could have stopped a kid nearly half a foot their junior...
...politician's first campaign has a way of shaping him forever, then you can trace the patterns of his current New Hampshire ground war back to 1982 and the newly poured asphalt of Arizona's rapidly growing First District. Arizona may have been new to McCain, but he was not new to the state. In 1980 he had married Cindy Hensley, 18 years his junior and the daughter of one of the largest beer distributors in the country. "His history as a POW preceded him out here," she admits, "because my father was so proud of him." McCain went...
...party in progress, we approach the large group of guys and a lone female. The guys--who identify thesmelves as members of the D.U. frat--are en route to a night of partying in Cape Cod, but they are clearly wasting no time, enjoying themselves right there on the asphalt. Chips and beverage overflow in the trunk, as the travelers idly but excitingly wait for stragglers to arrive...
...lyrics are revealing: "I gravitated towards a patriarch," the now divorced diva sings in Petals. Some of her music, however, is less pointed and could use more grit. Carey longs for the hard black soul of the street, but she hovers a bit above it, heat shimmering off the asphalt...
...Billy comes over and spits up at the kid on the railing. His target moves to spit back, but Billy jumps away and the frothy white wad of saliva drops to the asphalt...