Word: pedestrianization
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...King Claudius indeed looks sleazy, but in a pedestrian way, less like some evil know who kills his brother than some gauche Miami tourist who wears a lavender polyester suit to a polo match with the Queens. Christopher Keyser makes Claudius look so banally evil for so long that his final confession of guilt rings hollow...
Some of the fierce vitality of the sexual encounters in Paley's earlier stories have given way to more nostalgic couplings. In "Listening," a middle-aged woman driving south on Broadway sees a pedestrian whose "nice unimportant clothes seemed to be merely a shelter for the naked male person." She thinks, "Oh, man, in the very center of your life, still fitting your skin so nicely . . . why have you slipped out of my sentimental and carnal grasp?" Turning to a woman friend in the car, she says: "He's nice, isn't he?" The reply is vintage Paley: "I suppose...
...Gardens, a 186-unit garden-apartment complex in San Mateo, Calif., subsidized by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In addition to the wonderful overall ambience of this "apartment village," arranged along pedestrian parkways and courtyards, the project gives residents opportunities for creating their own special places in their private gardens...
Jack Morse, deputy chief of the Harvard Police Department, says keeping cyclists from riding in heavily used pedestrian areas poses a constant problem. "I don't think anyone wants to hurt anyone," Morse says. "Bikers have great faith in their ability to avoid a pedestrian but no matter what, riding at high speeds offers a constant danger to people walking...
...loving Amadeo drags some vacation reading to a beautiful, solitary cape and espies a beautiful, solitary sunbather, beginning "The Adventure of the Reader." The summertime pas de deus between the two would be a textbook Harlequin romance, except Amadeo is reading a different book, one more interesting than the pedestrian sexual encounter that his beach mate wants to create with...