Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gambling are legal. But nine-year-old Jeremy Anderson is finding that other taboos are quite vigorously enforced. Last November, Jeremy and some friends were walking home from school when a rather Rockwellian construction worker asked if the children wanted to write their names in a just-poured cement sidewalk. "The man said I could, so I did," said Jeremy. He and his friends then wrote their names and made hand- and footprints. A few weeks later, the job's contractor contacted Jeremy's mother and told her she owed $11,000 because the company would have to redo...
...brief introductory passage that reveals her novel's conclusion. "Poet Jakob Beer, who was also a translator of posthumous writing from the war, was struck and killed by a car in Athens in the spring of 1993, at age sixty. His wife had been standing with him on the sidewalk; she survived her husband by two days. They had no children...
...commercial film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No skyscanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity to step out of a chauffeured car onto the theater sidewalk. Just a lot of regular folks ready and willing to sweat out the wait and shell out the four bills to screen another "Jaws"-type blockbuster...
...life, it seems, is rapidly disappearing. The clerks in Rite-Aid won't know my name and ask how school's going when I walk in. They won't extend me "credit" when I'm a dollar or two short. Stores like Rite-Aid probably won't have sidewalk sales during the Strawberry Festival or on Community Day. Will they permit kids to paint their windows with vampires and giant pumpkins on Halloween this October? These are considerations that the rational choice theorist will never understand...
...sheet-rock installer. In this situation, you don't need a citation from Oliver Wendell Holmes. You only need an usher. The usher can explain to Torture Voice that he has every right to carry on a conversation, but he'll have to do it out on the sidewalk...