Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slipped it between two parked cars on a narrow, tree-shaded street outside the American University campus in downtown Cairo. As Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi's black Peugeot rolled past, the terrorists triggered the bomb, blasting ball bearings at the Minister's motorcade and passersby on the crowded sidewalk...
...cameras to roam around in. "You can leave the stage, go down three or four steps, open the door, and you're right on 53rd Street," says Letterman. "I can scream every night at Miss Saigon. I can literally holler at her. I can make enough noise on our sidewalk to disrupt their show every night...
Every so often, on the streets of big cities, you'll see a sidewalk salesman selling records. Ancient 33s from the '60s and '70s, all laid out in a row. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. Marvin Gaye. Earth, Wind and Fire. Sounds from a softer, more soulful era, now on display as curiosities. In an era of DATs and New Jacks, such scenes have a poignant, out-of-touch, Willy Loman quality to them. You amble by and perhaps turn up the volume on your Sony Discman...
Close your eyes and listen to Tony Toni Tone's graceful new CD and you may think you're hearing one of those sidewalk sale records. The Tonyies are lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins, his guitarist brother D'wayne Wiggins, and their cousin, drummer Timothy Christian Riley. They're all in their mid-20s, and this CD is an R.-and-B. tribute to the music they grew up with. My Ex- Girlfriend borrows the bridge from Sly and the Family Stone's 1968 song M'Lady. As another cut fades, Raphael sings, "Last night a D.J. saved...
...Gunn, was shot to death in March by a man connected with an unrelated but similar organization, "the pro-life movement was on the ropes a little bit," admits Operation Rescue's national spokesman, Patrick Mahoney. Nonetheless, Rescue continued a Melbourne "boot camp" that tutored recruits in everything from sidewalk "counseling" to surveillance. Graduates are now aiding the Refuge campaign in their hometowns, as Terry and other leaders jet from city to city, exhorting the troops. "We must strive to build a Christian democratic republic that is founded on the Ten Commandments," he says in a preview. "The only alternative...