Word: pavements
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...scratched the name Christopher in yellow chalk on the pavement at Bermuda's Royal Navy base. In red, next to this makeshift memorial, he wrote "Marques." A single yellow rose was placed beside the young boy's name and a bouquet of red and white carnations by that of the ship. Only then did Polish Captain Jan Sauer talk about how he and his schooner Zawisza Czarny rescued the survivors of the ill-fated Marques, the stately square-rigger that sank near Bermuda last week killing 17 sailors and trainees, their captain, Stuart Finlay...
...stomach wounds from shots fired by a high-velocity weapon, and that eyewitnesses had seen smoke and flames emanating from the barrel of an AK-47 automatic rifle thrust from an upstairs window of the embassy. For most of last week, her constable's cap lay on the pavement where it had fallen, still within firing range of Libyans inside the embassy. On Thursday, a fellow officer flouted orders and retrieved the cap so that, in police tradition, it might rest on the slain constable's coffin...
...stunning feat of urban design. Shops have opened in the ancient arcades. The great columns lend drama to the mall. Above this living museum are new houses. Nearly 2,000 years are linked by light that filters down from shafts in the town-house courts to the Roman pavement some 30 yds. below. The Cardo connects with the famous Arab market in the Muslim quarter...
...remainder of the tour covered everything from a fancy Hungarian restaurant to a pizza parlor, where we were joined by others. It culminated outside a donut shop where Joseph tossed out donuts onto the pavement in case I was hungry, dryly calling out the flavors: "Coconut...cinnamon...jelly..." Over the next few weeks I often went along on Joseph's lonely hunts. I never ate anything, but Joseph appreciated the company...
...officials maintain an image. New York City's Mayor Ed Koch flaunts a style: confident, snappish, moralistic and salty as a delicatessen waiter's banter. For better or worse, he has come to symbolize the world's one-dimensional view of a New Yorker: an abrasive pavement-pounder who is allergic to trees. Koch obliged this perception after taking over Gracie Mansion in 1977; he kept his small apartment in Greenwich Village as a weekend retreat. He was not being cute; those who have followed the mayor's career should now realize that his biggest indulgence...