Word: sidewalkers
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...peculiar but harmless figure on big-city streets, the lone man walking down a sidewalk, railing loudly at some injustice inflicted by a distant, impersonal tormentor. The angry man who actually acts out his rage usually appears only in films-the demented TV newscaster in Network, for example, who declares war on what he sees as the Establishment and touches a sympathetic nerve in millions of viewers by urging them to shout, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more!" But sometimes he appears in real life...
...Reason to Cry is no reason to rejoice. Let alone dance in the streets. Eric Clapton's latest album is as shiny-slick as an iced-over sidewalk and about as enticing as sit-slideing your away along one--easy, too easy, smooth, too smooth. He sings "Hello Old Friend" all around the AM networks but the lyrics leave you colder than the "Hi! What's happening?" of an acquaintance who passes by before the reply...
According to Allen Rosenberg, attorney for Local 262 of United Electrical, Radio and Machinery Workers of America, Arruda said Rockcastle "propelled her across the sidewalk by a blow to her chest with his elbow" in a picket-line incident on the afternoon of September...
...most Southern whites, blacks were not entitled to normal courtesies. In courtrooms, black witnesses were usually called by their first names or "uncle" or "gal." In some Southern towns, blacks were obliged to step off the sidewalk into the street to make room for passing whites. In some areas they were warned to be out of town by sunset. The few black policemen could not arrest whites...
...been trying to bring the neighborhoods together, and the Square should be their logical focal point," he explains. In July, Smith sponsored a three-day sidewalk sale in the Square, and he plans to organize similar events in the future. "We're trying to dress it up as much as possible...