Word: sidewalkers
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...about much else. Assaultive language masquerading as sidewalk compliments can remind any woman of her vulnerability. Rape is still a waking nightmare, but at least a little daylight has been let in. The physical wounding and emotional trauma are now discussed openly. America is being educated; more stringent laws and penalties are now in effect and reflect a greater understanding of the crime. But feminism, in its widest application, is still a home-front revolution, and it is in the apartment, the tract house and the split-level that its greatest impact has been felt...
...AFTERNOON of March 30, 1981 forced unforgettable television images on a nation unaccustomed to dramas more serious than General Hospital. White house press Secretary James Brady, gravely wounded, bleeding into a sidewalk grating in front of the Capitol Hilton. A stunned Ronald Reagan, unaware of his own serious wound, being shoved into his limousine as bullets zipped past him. A secret serviceman, brandishing a submachine gun, yelling wildly at crowds to keep back while his colleagues wrestled with the President's assailant. Another aide running through the midst of the panic, clutching a briefcase later identified as the presidential "black...
...protest against "high" culture. Paik, who was to move to New York in 1964, would play a piano and then topple it over onstage; he would cut a pianist's shirttails to shreds with scissors, or stage a little musical "event" by dragging a violin along the sidewalk on a string, like a scraped and protesting pet. A cellist, Charlotte Moorman, would appear for Paik at a concert and play her instrument with tiny TV sets rigged over her breasts; or, to the scandal and amusement of the New York art world in 1967, she would perform topless...
During the past two weeks, lines of customers waiting to withdraw money from the 80 offices of Oakland's Fidelity Savings & Loan Association snaked through branch lobbies and out onto the sidewalk. There was no panic because everyone who demanded money got it, but cash was flowing out at near panic levels. Last Thursday alone, $25 million was withdrawn...
...afternoon; the older men and women have returned from work, and the children are home from school. People gather in family groups on the sidewalks along the backstreets of Xian. A young girl stands by the public water well getting water for her family. An old woman washes her extended family's clothes in a metal tub. Another woman shreds cabbage and slices vegetables in preparation for the evening meal. A grandmother sits watching her grandchildren play as she mends shoes, and a man hunches over a chair he is mending. It is the quietest time of the day. Families...