Word: sidewalkers
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...which almost anyone could be a target any time, anywhere, while carrying out the most innocent activities: waiting for a flight in an airport lounge, dining at a sidewalk cafe. A war waged by shadowy enemies who could be almost anyone: the passenger in the next airplane seat, the occupants of the next car driving by. Worst of all, a war in which civilized society so far is a bewildered, if not impotent, loser...
...firemen in black-and-yellow gear crept on their arms and knees along the sidewalk, hoses coiling behind them, police in blue jumpsuits ran from doorway to doorway and, as some observers claimed, paused to return gunfire from the Move house with an array of shotguns and automatic weapons. Cameraman Pete Kane of Channel 10, a local CBS affiliate, watched the action from an upper story window just 100 yds. from Move's headquarters. "Debris was flying everywhere," he says. "Entire trees were exploding in fire." As night fell, the flames tinged the Philadelphia horizon red. Finally...
...York fad cuisine ("fillet of hake in lager and cranberry sauce . . . roast baby pigeons in fresh grapefruit nests"). When city smarts are called for, Henderson loses his nerve. Convinced that he is being attacked on a dark street, he flings his wallet and credit cards to the sidewalk and injures his knees as he runs away. The "muggers" patiently gather up his documents and return them; they are four people coming home from the movies...
Construction of the new Central Square subway station will disrupt parts of Western Ave. and Massachusetts Ave. inevitably causing traffic rerouting and sidewalk inconveniences for Central Square patinas...
WHALEN and O'Hara are good, hardworking cops, and largely unappreciated. We felt the same hostile sidewalk stares that they did. We saw few people thank them. We watched them grab a man who had his hands around the throat of a young woman in a barroom doorway. The woman called them pigs...