Word: overpass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vigor in this case contrasts sharply with its so-far lame response to the need for signs in another part of Harvard's domain. I am referring to the need for signs to guide the constant flow of visitors and newcomers walking to and over the broad, featureless overpass by Memorial Hall safely toward their desired destination...
...result is an America that is rapidly dividing into two worlds, separated by class, race and drive time. Sheltered in tree-lined streets where the fantasy of a homogeneous middle-class society can still be entertained, many suburbanites know the city mainly as a skyline glimpsed from an overpass or as the place of a shooting reported on the evening news -- or as a pillar of smoke and flame on the horizon...
...silk against silk as Drew sashays toward Billy on the night they might make love. From such subtle signals emerges a lopsided triangle: the strong man and two people independent enough to survive him. Billy had first caught Dutch's attention when he juggled four balls on a railroad overpass. But he and Drew are both jugglers, really, of other people's emotions -- even those of Dutch, whose primal whims toward these two outsiders are to adopt one and have the other killed...
...separate case involving a similar principle, a federal judge held the city of Miami in contempt of court last week for destroying bedrolls, clothes and medicine belonging to homeless people living under a highway overpass. The city was ordered to pay $2,500 to a homeless shelter...
...Connecticut man has been convicted of murder. The man argues in his defense that the police made an illegal search of his "home" -- the cardboard boxes he used as a chest of drawers as he sheltered beneath a highway overpass -- in order to get their evidence. Does the Fourth Amendment protect cardboard boxes? What is the legal definition of home? What confers the sanctity of home? A lease or a deed? Four walls? How thick or thin? Must home have doors and locks...