Word: pedestrianization
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While a recent spree of armed robberies may have alarmed students, a more pedestrian crime is hitting Harvard Square--and police are warning students to watch their wallets...
...this spring from her own imprint on eyebrow upkeep by...the woman who plucks Regan's eyebrows. "Robyn Cosio changed my life," Regan gushed to Publishers Weekly. "With a swift move of her hand, she reshaped my eyebrows, giving me the instant facelift I needed." Cosio is no pedestrian plucker; she often reshapes 50 brows a day at $50 a pop, and her clients include Courteney Cox and Susan Sarandon. Whether Cosio can write is a mystery, but no doubt Regan's hair colorist and bikini waxer are rooting...
...astonishing intricacy, a maze-like network of stacked structures and winding, convoluted pathways. Unfamiliar in unexpected ways, it reveals the obsessive and overwrought patterns of human activity in all their inscrutable complexity. Too bad that, in the last weightless moments before touchdown, the city metamorphoses into something more pedestrian--disappearing, finally, into the invisibility with which we cloak the everyday. Up close, we see nothing...
Whether we're sneaking on to planes to get home in time for Thanksgiving or riding our bikes through dense pedestrian traffic to get to a meeting, can we at least recognize that we aren't above the law just because we're smart...
Maybe today's rudeness is an off-shoot of the culture of protest and action that is a characteristic of the Harvard Square scene. What worked so well for the Vietnam War or civil rights is now applied to everyone's own peccadilloes and fixations. The female pedestrian obviously felt she had the moral high ground to handle me in any way she saw fit since I was a hazard to humanity and therefore deserved no part among society...