Word: sidewalkers
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...This fall, I mastered a tactic on how to avoid Au Bon Pain Man. Living in Kirkland House, I was initially dismayed at the thought of have to pass right by him three or four times a day. Some careful research taught me that if you stay off the sidewalk and cross the street before you hit the mailbox at the corner of the sidewalk of the fine bakery, you should be able to escape him (though you should beware that sometimes he does do a 180 really fast and catches you anyway...
...bands would put out mediocre records and they'd sell a million copies," recalls Buck. "But we won. We outlasted them. None of those bands is around, none of them does any good work. They're all working in whatever the '90s equivalent to a gas station is -- a sidewalk shish kebab stand or / something...
Nevertheless, Havana's stoic, inventive populace manages to keep going. "It's better to work for yourself," says a railway laborer. "If you can earn just $5 a month, that's more than you get in a government factory." Sidewalk vendors selling everything from wood carvings and homemade jewelry to their personal possessions have popped up all over the capital. Everyone seems to be expert in the art of black-market dealing, trading what they have for what they cannot find in the stores...
...master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette factory and brings home unofficial samples. With the purloined packs, Eugenio heads for the local government bodega to find the old man who sits on the sidewalk outside to trade illegally in yuca. He sells his yuca for 10 pesos per lb., but tobacco is always an acceptable substitute. Thanks to such enterprise, Eugenio eats well enough. "We survive because we're strong," he says...
...walk on the sidewalk...in fear of my life," Francis said." If we note the word, it says side walk...