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STREET ENTERTAINMENT. New York has enough street musicians to people-and entertain-a convention hall. Their fare is gratis-and sometimes worth even less. Yet a few rate an earing and eying-among them, the Wretched Refuse, a conglomerate of nine fine instrumentalists who specialize in asphalt bluegrass. Sugar Blue, a black harmonica player who plies his tunes in Greenwich Village, may be the best itinerant musician in New York. Around Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, less prominent and more indigent fiddlers than those indoors make Brahms burst in midair, usually by tuning their violins up a tone to make...
...building a system of second-story walkways so that people can stroll among six city blocks without ever going outside; Minneapolis already has a similar skywalk. New York is chipping at its concrete canyons with vest-pocket parks, small oases of greenery and water amid the granite, glass and asphalt. Most U.S. cities have become aware of the humanizing influence of gardens, fountains, plazas and intimate shopping arcades-all a recovered legacy from Europe...
...Jersey; his prospects in Maryland and Delaware would be very slim. Ford would probably not win these states either, but he would make it a closer fight and might just take New Jersey. Voters in this region consider Reagan to be too conservative, too disdainful of the asphalt agonies of Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia and New York. Ford finally did help keep New York afloat, and he is considered safe and sensible on foreign policy. Party leaders are petrified that Reagan would drag other Republicans to defeat. Says one state chairman: "It would be an absolute disaster for us." Adds...
...They desperately need someone to take care of these courts," a diehard racqueteer lamented during her wait yesterday. "The clay courts are all dug up and the asphalt needs complete resurfacing...
...hear the Wallace campaign rhetoric, one would think he had paved with gold the streets of Alabama's working class neighborhoods. Upon examining Wallace's record, however, one realizes that unfortunately those streets are merely potted asphalt. According to the director of the AFL-CIO committee on political education, "as a labor supporter, Wallace's poor posture is second to none...