Word: overpassive
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...twin towers that loomed so large in my youth were gone—and I had not been there to say goodbye. New hot neighborhoods—like the Brooklyn blocks whimsically dubbed DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)—had sprung up without me to gaze in their shop windows. And a new mayor had wiped out the city’s recycling program and banished smoke clouds from sidewalk cafes...
Murray gazes out the window of the diner at the subway overpass nearby, her green eyes calmly surveying her surroundings...
...manage to pull themselves out of the hammocks, Nuts Huts makes an ideal base for the leisurely exploration of Bohol Island's southern attractions, like the San Pedro Cathedral in nearby Loboc. The graceful 18th century architecture is impressive, but the real surprise is an unfinished highway overpass headed straight for the bell tower. Someone obviously screwed up: had the road been completed as planned, the cathedral would have had to be demolished. The truncated overpass has yet to be knocked down...
...poses Patricia Upchurch, a bus person from Whidbey Island, Wash. Most bus people spend at least a couple of months a year back home to stretch out. Occasionally a bus person leaves the life permanently--one dropout became paranoid about the risk of ripping the roof off under an overpass. Some other kinds of motor homes have lost their tops that way, but the record is not clear on whether a bus has. (If one does get stuck under an overpass, the driver can deflate the air-suspension system and lower the coach a few inches...
...Spillane clients Divine Brown and Faye Resnick. "Those people are focused on a whole story," he says. "I'm just one person who transported ballots from West Palm Beach to Tallahassee." In fact, Enos seems kind of creeped out by the attention. "I'd see people run across the overpass and wave and take pictures, and I was thinking, 'Why are they doing this? They could be waving at a truck with someone taking furniture somewhere...