Word: macadamization
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...warm summer day in the hills of northern Transylvania. There is little traffic on the road, a strip of patched macadam that bisects the valley and climbs slowly through the trees to disappear in the direction of the Hungarian border. A pair of covered Gypsy wagons comes into view, each pulled by a stocky horse. As the wagons draw abreast, the driver of the first lifts his hat and waves. The second driver has stretched out and gone to sleep, the reins held loosely in hands clasped over his ample stomach...
...them up said only that they would not be gone long from Phnom Penh. At night they slept beside the road. After a few days, the flip-flops Seng and his family were wearing disintegrated, and they had no choice but to go barefoot on the road's blistering macadam. Frequently, Seng would ask if anyone had seen his missing daughters...
While South Korea cuts back, other countries awash with orphans or abandoned children try to remove potential obstacles. Thailand, India and Peru are possible sources. Douglas Tifft and his wife Bonnie MacAdam tried the agencies, avoided the lawyers and waited a year for a Korean baby before looking elsewhere. "The process can be heartbreaking," says Bonnie. But when they applied for a Peruvian baby, the phone call came six weeks later, and they soon boarded a plane for Lima. Last week Bonnie returned to New Hampshire with five-month-old Rosa. "Once you have the baby in your arms...
...paper because of its pro-German sympathies and immersed herself in the intellectual and artistic life that flourished around the Cafe de Flore on Paris' Left Bank. Those contacts led to her first walk-on movie parts and, in 1946, to a starring role in Jacques Feyder's Macadam...
...image is perhaps a trifle extreme, but for Punk, the archetype of the breed, ambition does not extend even onto the macadam of the mall's parking lot. Because he has a criminal record (for burglarizing stores in the mall, of course), he is pessimistic about hit future. "I probably couldn't get a job here now," he says wistfully. "Unless--" we imagine his dull eyes catching a tiny spark--"I go down to the other end, where they don't know...