Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite many moderate Republicans' anger over several hard-line platform planks, all efforts to amend them were squelched. To protest the platform's repudiation of the ERA, some 4,500 women (and a few men) marched through downtown Detroit as a sidewalk band mockingly played I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad. But when John Leopold, a member of the Hawaii delegation, proposed from the floor that the platform be reconsidered, he failed to stir support from any delegation...
...strike, the national police, backed by helicopters and armored cars, stormed the National University-which by tradition had been off-limits to security forces-and killed at least six students. In one especially ugly scene, soldiers marched up to a student hall, ordered fruit vendors to hit the sidewalk and then yelled for the youths to come downstairs. One boy, no more than 14 or 15, started down the steps and was sent sprawling with a shot in the arm. Lying on the floor, he pleaded: "I'm a Christian, I'm a Christian." In answer, a soldier...
...involved. Police scoured the area by helicopter and on their hands and knees. They searched nearby trash bins and sewers and interviewed guests but turned up only one additional bit of evidence: the nearly intact first .30-06-cal. slug, which was lying in the crack of a sidewalk near Jordan's room. Said Mayor Moses: "It was not a Saturday-night type of shooting. The gunman was an expert marksman and he knew guns." The mayor described the shooting as "professionally executed," then amended his remarks: " 'Expert,' I suppose, is a much better term than...
...number of satellite characters keep orbiting Ignatius' girth. There is Burma Jones, a young black who has to take a low-paying job at a Bourbon Street strip joint or be arrested for vagrancy. As a sidewalk shill for the acts inside, Jones seeks his revenge: "Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage." Then there is Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself...
...photographs on display in "The Automotive Image," one of the simplest and most fascinating is Joseph de Cassere's picture of Miss Atlanta, circa 1930. She is perched on the back seat of a Buick convertible, proceeding in a motorcade beneath the faces of a crowd clustered along the sidewalk, on balconies and in windows. You see the crowd as one mass, and the girl in the center as a floral brightness--her right arm lifted in a practiced wave, the sun highlighting her shoulder, her smiling, tulip-like face angled toward the camera. Then your eye locates the profile...