Word: sidewalkers
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...wind licked Dartmouth Street aimlessly, twirling bits of paper across the sidewalk. Pedestrians shivered and hurried as the shadows grew longer; the afternoon was fading fast. The guests hurried into the gallery to luminous landscapes, restrained delight and canapes. Baudelaire, whose art criticism could be as sparse and illuminating as his poetry was scented with opiate-rich darkness, would have enjoyed the scene. For here, in this glass-fronted room glowing out of the duck of Boston, the sophisticates peered and exclaimed much as they would have a century or more ago at the opening of a Paris Salon. While...
...commonplace to note that New York, once one of the most intensely political towns in the country, is now in the midst of a perverse political lull. Gone are the flashy pretty-boys like John Lindsay, the debonair playboys like Jimmy Walker, the fiery sidewalk-thumpers like Fiorello LaGuardia and the mediocre but endearing swindlers like Bill O'Dwyer. The city that could once churn out Roosevelts and Wagners now contents itself with failed accountants like Abe Beame, who chased political shadows in the dark of a summer blackout. Mediocrity on an unprecedented scale. Yet even those ciphers seem awesome...
...city of Cambridge contributed to the handicapped cause last year by making 30 sidewalk alterations on the University's request, Fielder said...
Newbury Street on the first sunny day in a week has almost a carnival atmosphere. No cotton candy or ferris wheels. Rather, sidewalk cafes with Cinzano ashtrays and people drinking creme de menthe and talking about Art and Life and Death and "Darling, did you know that Miranda has run off to Haiti with a jazz musician...
...federal government is paying 80 per cent of the cost of the project. Engineers say the construction will alter the appearance of the Square by adding more sidewalk area and re-routing some of the streets in the area...