Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...city attempted to have 34billboards removed, charging that they were inviolation of the rules of the state OutdoorAdvertising Board (OAB) by being less than 300feet away from a public park and by being "out ofharmony" with their respective neighborhoods...
White House historian and architectural consultant William Seale has always advocated closing Pennsylvania Avenue to make an expansive President's Park, as intended by Washington's original designer, Pierre L'Enfant. Seale would put gates and fences around the entire area embracing Lafayette Park, the White House grounds and the Ellipse behind, then add walkways and plants. Visitors could be filtered through the gates and see unmatched vistas of the grounds. Most of the more than 15 million visitors who come to Washington want to see the White House in some manner, but fewer than a tenth of them...
...have been around for almost all the White House's 200-year history. Indeed, after the initial and rather stealthy shutdown of Pennsylvania Avenue, which carried 26,000 vehicles a day, there was a kind of jubilation over the serenity and pedestrian access to the broad avenue between Lafayette Park and the White House. Hundreds of strollers, Rollerbladers and bicyclists invaded the asphalt with happy shouts...
...with scenes of anomic decay. It's not the rough huff of the sex play with girls who look to be on the green side of puberty, though these trysts pack their own sick wallop. It's the throwaway brutality (the kids beating up a black man in the park), the notion that the world is there to be spat at or pissed on. In one of the lighter moments, Telly's pal Casper (Justin Pierce) dips a tampon in a red fruit drink, then sucks it dry. Still with...
From a brown corduroy recliner, Weaver can keep an eye on his two youngest daughters, Elisheba, 3, and Rachel, 13, who often play in the park across the street. His oldest daughter, Sara, 19, who works as a waitress, has rented a house up the street. On some days, Weaver sits and sips coffee from a mug emblazoned with the German flag. When visitors drop by, he mixes White Russians in the kitchen. Outside on the small lawn, a jumble of bicycles lies scattered across the sidewalk. A battered white gas guzzler hunkers in the driveway. He says...