Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Point No-Point thrives on these bizarre personalities and the world they live in. As a mystery, it is entirely pedestrian, but the novel tries hard to make up for its blandness with an interesting setting...
...dropped us off on the outskirts of the town and we'd make our way to the mile-long Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg's main thoroughfare. It's closed to all but pedestrian and equestrian traffic. (We were always on foot because my parents never humored us with carriage rides...
...America Mall, the world's largest pedestrian mall, is also right in the area for mall rats who need a change of pace...
Called personal communications networks, these systems operate much like cellular phones but are not intended for cars. Instead they are designed for pedestrian use and will consist of pocket phones so small they can be folded up like a wallet to the size of a pack of cigarettes. They can be smaller and less expensive than conventional cellular phones because they need to be powerful enough only to transmit to one of hundreds of receiving stations located throughout the local cable network. The user could thus bypass the local phone company, which makes the PCN system a threat...
...motif, Bryson uses the description of the drivers in different countries. He begins with France, claiming that "the pedestrian crossing lights have been designed with the clear intention of leaving the foreign visitor confused, humiliated, and if all goes according to plan, dead." He follows that by telling how blind people and old ladies in wheelchairs can cross without hesitation, but how when he crosses the drivers try to kill...