Word: pedestrianization
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...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...
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...
...interlocutors of Vox -- Abby and Jim (the pedestrian names somehow don't do them justice) -- are virtuoso talkers. They are not merely poets of sexuality (an eroticized George and Gracie) but acute lyricists of everyday life. Listen to Abby's riff on pop songs that end with fade-outs ("this attempt to imply that oh yeah, we're a bunch of endlessly creative folks who jam all night"); while Jim explains why he doesn't bother to buy such records ("you really need the feeling of radio luck in listening to pop music...
...Davies' writing is sharp and talented enough that this epic saga is neither heavy-handed nor ceremonious. The narrative moves swiftly and fluidly from film to film, generation to generation. Davies' flexibility with time and use of the posthumous film festival keep Murther and Walking Spirits from being a pedestrian account of family history...