Word: sidewalkers
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...Sidewalk Sam paints the town, or at least the sidewalks, when the weather permits and the mood takes him. People passing a guy who kneels in the street and chalks reproductions of Gainsborough on the pavement may wonder what he's doing down there, but to Sam it's all very clear. "I'm bringing art to the people instead of making them go to dusty old museums to see it," he says. "I'm taking painting out of the hands of the elitist art bureaucracy and putting it back where it belongs...
Whether Bob Guillemin is a serious artist or not seems beyond the point. Sidewalk Sam is in the streets for fun, and the people who interrupt their busy dashes across Boston to stop and watch him work enjoy their respite from the hubub of city life manage to linger on for a few extra minutes to exchange friendly words with the red-bandanna-topped artist...
Harvard not withstanding, Sidewalk Sam lives on. His art does not survive on the streets for more than a week, but one likes to think that his impact on his public is a lasting...
...shop-window lights on Tel Aviv's fashionable Dizengoff Street and Allenby Road snapped on automatically at sundown; shopkeepers quickly turned them off. In Cairo, which lies but seven minutes by jet from the canal, the streets were brightly lit for hours after sundown. "You mean," demanded a sidewalk vendor in disbelief, "that we are fighting Israel with all these lights on?" By late evening, when the government ordered that all electric lights and headlights be daubed with blue paint, the war reports seemed more convincing...
...long, finely choreographed street scene: clusters of people move easily along or hurry out of a Metro entrance. We see, then lose, a young man. A red sports car drives by; a mother wheels a carriage along the sidewalk; a man walks casually until he meets the young man, who has slipped back into the frame. The two stare at each other in questioning, quiet hostility for a moment. Then the boy slaps the man across the face...