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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showings of MTV and especially Today--new fishbowls for ABC and CBS's morning shows will join these, as well as Fox News' existing one on 48th Street. Next week ABC's Good Morning America begins broadcasting from a two-story, 46,750-sq.-ft. glass studio a quick jaywalk from MTV's. CBS launches its high-tech, estimated $30 million crystal ship along with the Early Show with Bryant Gumbel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Living in Glass Houses | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...York holding cells and Texas pens--and policeman's bathrooms nationwide. Stay out of trouble for a full 150 minutes--and match the candlepower of Connery and Harris with McQueen and Hoffman with the 1973 prison epic Papillon. A good look at Guyana and you'll never jaywalk again. Still fidgety? Catch Paul Newman's two-spot in Cool Hand Luke alongside George Kennedy (who won an Oscar for the role) for cutting the heads off--what was it--gumball machines? Stay away from leaders, and watch your parking meters. I'll see you on the straight and narrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight the Power | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

What in the world is he thinking? What do people do in Boston if they don't jaywalk, as free as the proverbial birds? It could be a slogan for a clever opponent of Menino's in the next election who seizes upon his weakness: "Menino doesn't know Boston. I know Boston, and Boston jaywalks. Vote for Trillertrot." You can hear the wild cheering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRICE OF JAYWALKING | 2/17/1996 | See Source »

Being in America can change a Candian--Prabhu says that now "I jaywalk with abandon and I interrupt with abandon." And in all of Harvard College, one might argue, there's no better training ground for interrupting others than the Undergraduate Council...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Prabhu Keeps Her Composure | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...Harvard's less-known cement monoliths, the Broadway Parking Garage. Painless, except for the constant fear of cars shooting up from the tunnel next to Canaday at rates up to sixty miles-per hour. Why fear these subterranean speeders? Simply put, you have no choice but to jaywalk if you decide to cross anywhere except Quincy Street. If you're as lucky as I am, you get to break the law in front of a completely ambivalent police cruiser. Ambivalent as to whether you're breaking the law, seemingly ambivalent as to whether it hits...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

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