Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was my last meal at the Blarney Stone. For the rest of the summer, I pounded the pavement for my lunch. It is now a full half-year since I ate my way down South Avenue from 55th St, to 49th St, but the landscape is still fresh in my memory, and I can--and often do--recite the litany of pushcarts that fed me last June, July, and August. In order, walking downtown...
...like the famous bear, Shapiro sees. The weary, tan and rugged runner observes America and with a real freshness and unconventionality. He writes not of superhighways and MacDonalds, but of little towns and roadside trash and the heat of the pavement in this place or that...
When the First Snow came, it came softly. The first flakes fell determinedly, but melted on contact with the warm pavement. The weatherman said "a couple of inches" and we all thought "just slush and puddles...
...looked like a send-up of a Timex-watch commercial. In the parking lot of the U.S. federal building in West Los Angeles, an eight-ton steamroller moved back and forth over a pavement strewn with more than 4,000 wristwatches. Yet, when the torture stopped, not a watch was ticking...
...being honored in Dallas, they would have dropped me from a helicopter without a parachute," said Actor Larry ("J.R.") Hagman, 49, who last week became part of the pavement along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The three-mile-long celebrity stretch has honored just about every conceivable show-biz type from Clark Gable to Mickey Mouse. For Hagman, place was everything-his star was imbedded next to that of his mother, Broadway Great Mary Martin, 67. When Mom congratulated him, Larry noted the positioning of their two stars, then said: "Looks like I'm going to get top billing...