Word: sidewalkers
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...into a Place You Would Want to Spend the Entire Afternoon In"--and the article was terminally dopey, as any article about hipness would be. You don't hear New Yorkers talk about how hip their city is; they talk about harrowing cab rides, rapacious plumbers, crackheads on the sidewalk, all the usual urban horrors. New Yorkers know it's not cool to talk about being hip. Some Midwesterners don't understand that...
JEREMY ANDERSON For scrawling his name in a sidewalk's wet concrete, the Las Vegas third-grader faces trial...
...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...