Word: expressways
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...drove in from the suburbs to golf asked us if we wanted to go to college we said yes, but Dave privately confided that he didn't really want to. And Jerry Kruskowski who lived down Dave's block and went to St. Francis in the shadow of the expressway laughed and said that he didn't either. Maybe they would go into the army together Dave said, and laughed. Jerry's brother was in Nam and high school was a bore; geometry boring and math and no one cared anyway, not their parents or the teachers or anyone...
...Michael Gerchenson, 19, a sophomore at Southern Illinois University who was found shot to death in May on a stretch of highway near West Frankfort, Ill., and Specialist Five William Richter, 23, who was fatally shot in September while sleeping in a pickup truck parked next to an expressway in suburban Chicago...
...minute expressway drive from Tokyo International Airport into the center of the city offers an unforgettable vision-mile after gray mile of squat, smoke-stained concrete and steel structures, punctuated now and then by smokestacks spewing black fumes. The 400-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka is the world's most densely industrialized tract of real estate: its factories produce more than half of Japan's $200 billion annual G.N.P. All this industry, says Michitaka Kaino, director of Tokyo's Research Institute for Environmental Protection, provided a kind of bestiary of kogai (pollution): "You name...
...described as "the belly of Paris." The market has now been moved to more functional quarters in the suburbs, near Orly airport, and a giant commercial center called the Plateau Beaubourg will rise in place of the old vegetable stands. Last month there were demonstrations against plans for an expressway along the Left Bank. "Today for the first time within memory," says Etienne Mallet, urban-affairs critic for the daily Le Monde, "people are going into the streets to protest against new construction...
...authorities are responding to some outcries, however. A hotel project on the fashionable Right Bank has been shelved, and plans for the expressway on the Left Bank have been modified so that it will be hidden. These belated actions point toward a new attitude about urban grace. If its promise is realized, the Paris of the future will be a vastly different, and more manageable city than it is today. The suburbs will be the bustling, growing, changing centers of activity. Central Paris, the Paris of lovers and tourists, will remain much as it has been for a century...