Word: sidewalkers
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...soon?" she asked. Her husband shrugged himself out of his chair, his shirt hanging loosely from his trousers, purple stains of zinfandel on all three of us. My friend and I went reluctantly to the door, shook hands, climbed the stairs to the street and started down the sidewalk. After a moment my friend spoke. "Do you think they're doing it now?" he said. "You bet," I said, or something to that effect. I was vaguely reassured that he had had the same general response as I, and vowed that when I got married, which I prayed might...
...schedule and below the estimated cost. This massive excavation of the past brims with such evidence of how far we have progressed-and regressed-in six decades. As he so skillfully did in his book about the Brooklyn Bridge, McCullough seldom fails to make the reader feel like a sidewalk superintendent of history...
...film presents itself to the public these days, I mused. No sky-scanning spotlights, no jewel-bedecked starlets traipsing out of glossy limos, no obligatory horde of autograph hounds hanging out their tongues in anticipation of the next celebrity to step out of a chauffered car onto the theater sidewalk. Just a lot of regular folks ready and willing to sweat out the wait and shell out the four bills to screen another Jaws-type blockbuster...
...right side. The rotating blades tilted downward, slicing into three male bystanders and badly injuring a fourth, an Italian visitor, who later died. Some of the blades hit the concrete roof and disintegrated, pieces striking people on the walkway; ten were injured. Part of a blade plummeted to the sidewalk about two blocks away, killing a woman pedestrian. The toll: five dead, 13 injured...
...York hospital, there to take up residence in a child named Ivy Templeton (Susan Swift). She grows into an ordinary child-except that she has awful nightmares. And then, of course, there is this odd man who keeps following her around. If only he were a run-of-the-sidewalk pervert; for Humbert Humbert, after all, there are practical remedies...