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Long Shot #2--Three of the pedestrians walk by on the way to the Brattle. One in a heavy wool sweater, one in a black jacket with an upturned collar, one in a windbreaker. Two are men. The pedestrian in the windbreaker is a woman. They are talking about Rebel, though no words can be made out. The pedestrian in the heavy wool sweater looks overhead and sees the jetliner. The other two scan the crowd for familiar faces...
Boston can be a nightmare for motorists: a spaghetti tangle of twisting alleys, tree-sentineled boulevards and cramped, one-way lanes. But it can be equally harrowing for the poor pedestrian. Consider Appleton Street in the South End. Some years ago drivers discovered they could short-cut their way to the Southeast Expressway by using Appleton. Many weekday afternoons since then, the once-tranquil street has looked like some thing out of the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, and during the rest of the day, when the wide, one-way street is lightly traveled, like a drag strip. Next spring...
Some downtown business district planners are beginning to fight back with measures designed to restrict or divert automobile traffic from shopping streets, or to ban autos altogether from certain areas, or at certain times. Pedestrian malls that are well-served by public transportation and parking often prove to be profitable delights. The best of them, such as the pedestrian shopping districts in Portland, Ore., or the old city of Munich, Germany, are continuous festivals...
...gets some hint of the fervors from Miró's design for a poster, Aidez l'Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support of the Republicans and the Popular Front now seems pedestrian; French painting had no equivalent to Malraux's Espoir or Georges Bernanos' Les Grands Cimetières sous la Lune...
Measured by the high standards he has set in the past, Reagan's speech was fairly pedestrian. Missing were any of the visual aids that he often uses and his calculatedly simple elucidations of complex issues. He failed to explain the real reason why new cuts for 1982 are needed -namely, the failure of the economy and the credit markets to respond to the promise of upcoming tax cuts. The President did note, correctly, that inflation has fallen in recent months and that "there has even been a small crack in interest rates...