Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as pedestrians were getting used to the sidewalk intrusions of skateboarders, cyclists and joggers, they had to make room for another mobile urban menace: roller skaters. The U.S. now has an estimated 28 million of them, and a Gallup poll has found their passion to be the fifth most popular participation sport among teenagers, ahead of tennis and skiing...
...friendly debt to, the work of such all-night-joint bards as Tom Waits. Chuck E. is a real character, a buddy of Waits' and of Rickie Lee's who has now become, according to the woman who immortalized him, "king of the sidewalk, the most popular guy on Santa Monica Boulevard...
...crowd marched from the Common to Mayor Kevin White's home in Mount Vernon Square off Charles St. While the demonstrators remained silent during most of the walk, they took up the chant "No More Murders" as they picked on the sidewalk outside White's house. White had left Boston for the weekend and was not at home during the demonstration...
...world. If the Public Garden is the pinstripe, the Boston Common, originally set aside for cattle-grazing, is the shirtsleeves. Skateboards fly down the hill near the State House, children wade in the Frog Pond, pigeons wander where they please, and the Moonie troops hawk their religion on the sidewalk...
More often, Nin's tone is languid, dreamy; she clutters her stage with fin de siècle props and elegant clothes. Her potential lovers meet in artist's studios or Parisian sidewalk cafés. Traditional pornography gets to the point quickly, setting out the sexual ABCs with no nonsense. Nin, however, lingers over the calligraphy; she works as hard keeping her partners apart as she does bringing them together...