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Where does this leave the bicyclist in Cambridge? If not with physical superiority to all the automobiles, at least with a distinct aesthetic superiority. While an automobile is a true pig among vehicles, a bicyclist can go farther with less energy than anything else, manmade or natural. What with the traffic in Cambridge a bicycle will probably also leave you where you want to be faster than anything else...
...their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...
...delicate but crucial shift of focus that signals a complete change in the film's perspective. Coutard's camera is following an American jeep traveling down a Saigon street; suddenly, through an adjustment of the camera lens, the jeep is gone, and attention is fixed on a Vietnamese bicyclist. From that moment the film has stepped inside the Vietnam War. The frame of reference is wenched from the Americans and returned to the Vietnamese...
...matter-of-factly. "He was caught in the act." Stampede for Food. In the marketplace at Aba, where perhaps 200,000 refugees gathered, a stick-limbed girl in her teens was carrying home a few scraps of food in an old metal bowl perched on her head. A passing bicyclist jolted her, the bowl fell off, the food was spilled. The girl said nothing. She simply squatted on the ground looking at what she would have eaten that day as people trampled it. She was too numbed, too weary to retrieve it. At a makeshift Owerri food stand where...
Cure for the Rat Race. Even Lyndon Johnson has now declared himself the bicyclist's friend. Calling bike riders "the forgotten outdoorsmen of today," he said last March, "I see an America where our air is sweet to breathe and our rivers clean to swim in. I see an America where bicycle paths running through the hearts of our great cities provide wholesome, healthy recreation for entire families." Picking up his cue, the Interior Department now plans to build 10,000 miles of bike paths in national parks in the next decade...