Word: pedestrianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprisingly for a film biography of a man who is still alive (the real Knievel performed in Madison Square Garden a month ago), the hero is portrayed as an egomaniac, a compulsive worrier and a shameless searcher after publicity. Marvin Chomsky's direction is pedestrian, but the script (by Alan Caillou, John Milius and Pat Williams) has some nice moments of quirky comedy, as when a fissure opens in the earth and a rather large automobile disappears without a trace. The film is good-naturedly skeptical and occasionally satiric about Knievel's exploits-in marked and welcome relief...
...hospital's entrances, small groups of outsize, burly men, wearing tiny green-and-red Italian-American League pins, nervously watched the streets, quickly sizing up each approaching pedestrian. "You watch this stairway," one bull-necked "captain" instructed a younger man. "If somebody goes into the hallway, you follow him. If he gets in the elevator, you get in with him. And if he gets off at the floor, you tell him he can't go no further...
Compared with many larger airlines, which have a patina of sophistication, Delta comes off as an unpretentious country cousin. Instead of advertisements and commercials featuring aircraft silhouetted against flaming sunsets or sonorous "Wings of Man" pitches, Delta serves up pedestrian slogans like "The airline run by professionals" and the only slightly more inspired "Delta is ready when you are." Instead of grasping only for the glamour routes, Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta...
...hours after we began the service, police issued three warnings to clear the one-third of the sidewalk we were occupying. By the third warning the police had formed lines prohibiting pedestrian traffic on the entire block. One by one friends were helped from their kneeling positions and placed under formal arrest. The rest of us continued to sing. We were charged with what the police lines so successfully accomplished- "incommoding the sidewalk...
...test case for two of our group was set for Good Friday. Photographs taken at our worship service were used as evidence at the trial and revealed that, contrary to police testimony, we had neither prevented pedestrian traffic nor posed a substantial threat to the peace and tranquility of the nation's capital. The two defendants were acquitted...