Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strippers have taken Algeria off their itineraries. At a movie house on the Rue d'lsly. Moslems and Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing to Babel-Oued or Belcourt or Climat de France, where someone?European or Moslem?lay wounded or dead...
...cult of the body, delight in being alive in a land of sea and sunlight. They respect courage and brute force, but have no tradition of political loyalty. Pieds-noirs run after demagogues, but soon lose interest and go back to eying the. girls and sipping anisette at sidewalk caf�s. Grumbled a French officer, "Even if they started a revolution, they'd take time out for anisette...
...crowd clustered outside the Ranger dressing room to taunt their tarnished heroes. "Aw, go back to Montreal!" one fan yelled at Player-Coach Doug Harvey. "Whatsamatter, Gump, no guts?" somebody asked Goalie Lome Worsley, who answered with a brisk curse. But then Center Andy Bathgate stepped quietly onto the sidewalk, and the fans' mood changed abruptly. "Attaboy, Andy," they murmured. "Attaboy, Andy baby...
...hotly disputed matter of billings has long contributed some of the most colorful items in the lore of show business. When Can-Can opened in 1953, Actor Hans Conried showed up on the sidewalk outside the theater with a stepladder, climbed to the marquee with a tape measure, and determined precisely the altitude of the letters that spelled his name. When 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra (now in production) is finally released, Richard Burton will be listed above Rex Harrison. If, however, Harrison should be knighted before then, his name will go above Burton's-but only...
...Kamina base, 260 miles away. In a quiet, bungalow-lined side street, where some of the remaining white housewives strolled with their children, the whoosh of a low-flying U.N. jet brought sudden pandemonium as Katanga soldiers and hastily armed civilians jumped from their cars or stepped off the sidewalk to fire excitedly with pistols, tommy guns and rifles...