Word: pedestrianism
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...Greek. The disabuse Marlowe was the polar opposite of his creator, a sentimentalist who liked to write doggerel about "brief butterfly hours." Marlowe was surrounded by young ladies of wondrously easy virtue; Chandler adored his mother and married a woman 20 years his senior. Marlowe never had a pedestrian afternoon; Chandler was a preoccupied oil company executive until a combination of personal and economic depressions forced him, at the age of 44, to live...
Disrupting Pedestrian Traffic...
Duehay said in his opinion the city does own the land in question, but that putting it to use as park land would be "inappropriate" and would unduly disrupt pedestrian traffic in the area...
...dollop of horseradish sandwiched between two thick slabs of Bermuda onion? Was a certain Southern Congressman pinched for making an illegal proposition to a plainclothes Washington policewoman? Did Ethel Kennedy playfully run her white convertible over the curb in front of the Senate Office Building and nearly cancel Pedestrian Roger Mudd...
...legendary now, but quite the early virtuoso was Rouben Mamoulian. Mamoulian seemed to be experimenting constantly. His most accepted successes were on the stage (he directed the original stage version of "Porgy and Bess" for example) but his pictures exude a creative excitement that seems to say to the pedestrian studio craftsman, "Well boys, here's a little trick you might pick up on." The opening of Love Me Tonight, the slow rousing waking of a city from sleep, is one of the sunniest, most cheerful and nonchalant pieces of virtuousity you're likely to find anywhere. Mamoulian is witty...