Word: sidewalkers
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...older man, poorly dressed, wandered down the deserted sidewalk and upon the bridge, where the gas--dense enough to make breathing hard even with a soaked handkerchief held over one's nose--hung like a shroud...
...white car pulled out of the driveway and stopped in front of me; his window was open. He asked me how I was doing. I said fine. I was sure he was a creep by the sugary tone of voice he was using. I started turning off the sidewalk to go around the front of the car. I got one step and he said, "I'm with the Harvard Police, are you going very far?" I gestured toward the Yard, mumbled that I was fine and quickly walked along. He drove slowly past and turned around the corner...
...took me and his girlfriend Phillippa to a club called The Whiskey. It stood at the end of a narrow street, which he insisted wasn't an alley, in the oldest part of the city. We approached what looked like the back door of a restaurant. Garbage littered the sidewalk in front of it, in order, Alexis explained, to prevent non-members from finding the club. I discovered where Tommy's Lunch got the idea to use Bow Street as a trash can; it signals the chic which door...
...south collection of aging offices and new bank towers. Three days before the New Hampshire primary, politics permeates the strip--Phil Crane's headquarters features a one-story full-color poster of the Illinois congressman's face. Jerry Brown wafts in a cloud of reporters, up and down the sidewalk, greeting Bush supporters gathered in the doorway of the Republican's office. A diversionary force of 3000 college students marches down one lane, leaving enough room for cars to pass, stopping to heckle the headquarters staff of candidates who favor draft registration. John Anderson workers hand New Hampshire residents pamphlets...
...jump; Lucille presiding over a spaghetti dinner like Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu, stabbing stray meatballs on others' plates with birdlike speed; Francis excoriating his family and friends and demolishing his birthday cake; his father describing the day his wife left home, whereupon he took a pickaxe, smashed the sidewalk, and planted a fig tree that has grown into a majestic symbol of le Beau Geste...