Word: pedestrianized
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Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
...Washington, the spines of those who once rubbed shoulders in the diplomatic corps with former Russian Ambassador Alexander Panyushkin crawled slightly at the news that he was now the efficient chief of MVD's assassination department. To Washingtonians who had found the ambassador's stilted conversation pedestrian to the point of boredom, it was cold comfort to realize that they had merely seized on topics that failed to interest him. On the right subject, apparently, Panyushkin could be fascinating. "He is a clever and attractive person," said ex-MVDman Khokhlov in Bonn last week, "and he knows...
...pool arrangements, it was ABC's turn to supply equipment and technicians. In a steaming mobile unit parked in the Senate building courtyard, Ed Scherer, a 25-year-old TV director for Baltimore's WMAR-TV, selected the best shots to be fed to the networks. After pedestrian coverage the first morning, the cameramen sharpened, even anticipated Joe McCarthy's points of order. Said one: "When he looks disgusted, we put our camera on him." At one point, McCarthy passed a scribbled note to the TV men: "Could I have time off from cameras for ten seconds...
...given his story a swift pace by emphasizing the boy's progressive exhaustion as he pulls a fish up from the sea. His passages on the boy's psychological reaction to his approaching failure often seem to break the continuity of the action unnecessarily and they add a pedestrian touch to the piece...
...Manhattan, the city's plans for a $30 million Coliseum-four exhibition halls and a 20-story office building-at Columbus Circle were denounced by the influential Art News. Editor Alfred Frankfurter called the proposed design "utterly pedestrian," said the building would not fit into its surroundings, concluded that the whole project was "tragical, not comical." Frankfurter took to task Chairman Robert Moses of the city's Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, which is underwriting the Coliseum, for the "completely dictatorial way [he] is imposing this design upon the public," suggested "recourse to law" to put a halt...