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This brought to mind a fantastic proposal, shelved long ago by university administrators, to solve all traffic problems in the Square. How about building an underground network of streets for all motor traffic, thus transforming the Square from a pedestrian's nightmare to a browser's paradise...
...researched all his books at the Athenaeum. He calls the library "a marvelous example of what a great city ought to provide." Writes Poet David McCord: "The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king...
OLIVIA Newton-John's records would sell well no matter what they sounded like, so long as her picture was on the cover. And her latest release, Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits, follows this marketing device to the letter. The casual album browser is treated to a fantastic picture of the beautiful Olivia, complete with her dreamy green eyes, red lips, blond hair, and goddess-like face...
Ambler heroes, who tend to be British engineers or American journalists with names like Carter and Latimer, always blunder into situations beyond their control, just as the reader falls from the world of the rational browser into the depths of frenzied addition. Alfred Hitchcock has written about one famous Ambler beginning, that of Background To Danger (1937). Kenton is a British journalist in Germany who has lost all his money in a poker game. He takes a train to Vienna to borrow some from a man he knows there. But on the train he shares a compartment with...
...scarcely bloodless. He comes fully alive in his writings as a skeptical observer of human nature, a staunch advocate of political as well as economic liberty, and now and then something of a deadpan Scottish wit. Much of The Wealth of Nations is unreadable today, but the browser comes across unexpected bits of phrasemaking-for example, the first description of England as "a nation of shopkeepers." It was no compliment; Smith complained that only such a nation could follow so mean-spirited a policy as Britain's colonial exploitation of its American colonies...