Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the average Square-dweller has so far escaped some pimply outcast's displaced frustration, no one can avoid the hawkers of Square Deal and other useless pieces of paper. Clogging the already insufficient sidewalk space, they shove their worthless dreck into your face, screaming an annoying cant the whole time...
...workingman's blues theme is given a comical twist in these black-and- white magazine portraits of frustrating moments. A woman ties her dog to the side of the house; when it lunges, the whole structure collapses. In another, just as a laborer is finishing a perfect sidewalk, a friendly pup trots through the wet cement to visit him. The bottom line: "Fortunately, every day comes with an evening." And a soothing whiskey, perhaps...
Duehay said that a perimeter path was "potentially an idea that ought to be looked at," leaving the actual area of the park for pedestrians. But the narrownessand congestion of the sidewalk, especially onMass. Ave. is a problem, Duehay said...
...busy street in Moscow, pure capitalism is on display. What was once the black market is now legitimate entrepreneurship in the thriving sidewalk kiosks that peddle everything from Dutch chocolates to Japanese tape recorders. Shortages -- and long lines of shoppers -- have diminished even at state-run food stores since price controls were lifted. With inflation racing ahead at an annual rate of more than 1,000%, most middle-class people cannot afford to buy much. Yet high prices don't bother the newly rich who drive by in Mercedes and BMWs on their way to nightclubs that charge...
Yesterday's ceremony inaugurated the House of Blues' "Blues Walk." The sidewalk tribute is designed to be analogous to Hollywood's Walk of Fame, which features the hand prints of celebrities...