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...favorite was a marble-moving machine," says Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the main story. Kanfer, senior editor of the Books section, long ago decorated his office with a stuffed lion, a windup dragon and games purchased from sidewalk vendors. He admits that toys are on his mind a lot, so much so, he confesses, "that I began thinking about this story last April. I was told, however, that it had to wait for Christmas...
...undergraduates were part of a second group of 13 protesters arrested as they sat with linked arms on the sidewalk outside the art museum...
...them shouted. As horrified | passersby looked on, she fired three shots from a 9-mm pistol at Besse. "Get lost," barked the second woman, waving a gun at a stunned witness. "You haven't seen a thing." Then, as the Renault chief lay sprawled on the sidewalk, fatally wounded in the head, chest and shoulder, the assailants fled...
Harvard Conversation One: The Casual Pass Conversation. Participants are moving in opposite directions and are looking at the sidewalk with occasional upward glances for safety purposes. They inadvertantly recognize each other at a block apart, but the awkwardness of trying to express acknowledgment from this distance is too great. Both participants instantly stare back at the sidewalk in unconscious humiliation, feigning ignorance of the other's presence until the distance is closed to approximately 10 feet. At ten feet they can pretend to have just happened to look...
...city under enemy occupation." Everywhere there were police and military troops, checking parcels, inspecting shoulder bags, patrolling public toilets. At entrances to shops, subways and theaters, uniformed officers demanded, "Your papers, please." Along the Avenue des Champs Elysees, the grandest of the city's boulevards, crowds were thin, and sidewalk cafes were half empty. Long, snaking lines at the cinemas shortened. Tables at some of Paris' most exclusive restaurants sat idle. Parisians, who normally consider the city's streets and cafes to be extensions of their apartments, were suddenly clinging close to home...