Word: sidewalkers
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Francis said she walks on the sidewalk "in trepidation" of those who bicycle recklessly...
...there were no peddlers. Now much of the country's economic engine is driven not by the haut monde boutiques on Tverskaya but by the corrugated larki, or street stalls, which have sprung up across Moscow (and which the city government moved in to control earlier this year). These sidewalk clearinghouses offer a bizarre inventory of items, from Pierre Cardin cigarettes to banana-flavored liqueurs, exotic massage oils, cut-rate lingerie, canned ears of baby corn and pirated videos of Western B-movies...
...nightgown, lay in a pool of blood, her head severed to the spinal cord. A barefoot Goldman lay nearby, his body laced with signs of a ferocious struggle and 22 knife wounds. It was the neighborhood dogs that sounded the alarm, their paws spreading a bloody mosaic on the sidewalk around the house. One of the first cops on the scene, a longtime veteran, said, "It was the bloodiest crime scene I have ever seen...
Often the changes aren't exactly germane--the new Armani Cafe on Newbury Street, with its black-clad, chablis-sipping malcontents struggling to get tables on the sidewalk, just doesn't make sense in a city where high society remains unseen. The Other Side Cafe moved into the Back Bay fully intent on bringing Seattle grunge to Boston; once its owners realized that Bostonians didn't need (and, in their famously parochial way, didn't want) imported culture, they toned the grunge down...
...right. What was ancient Radcliffe like? Sorry, we didn't drag water in gourds from a well in the Square; but Harvard Square in the early '40s had no Holyoke Center, no sidewalk cafes, no cappuccino, no chic, no beggars and only one subway entrance. Farther off, Memorial Hall (with tower) rose in splendor above wide lawns (now gone, where traffic zooms through the underpass...