Word: sidewalkers
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...fifth of one's money's worth, one gets a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence, together with the sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations of the Second Continental Congress. History painted, as it were, by a sidewalk sketch artist, must rely on calcified profiles rather than searching character penetration. The Peter Stone book depends on the audience to expect the expected, and to bring along its own worn coloring crayons to the roles...
...Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing in her lungs: this is both Vian's preposterous parody of the consumptive heroines who litter romantic tradition, and a real tragedy in the context of a world where orchids grow from the sidewalk. By the time Chloe dies, here eyes "two bluish marks beneath her brows," we are not laughing...
...still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded by detectives who accused him of shoplifting...
...response to the sight of an obviously unguarded, abandoned car. Within ten minutes, their vehicle received its first visitors. The researchers' log reads, in chilling ellipsis: "Family of three drive by, stop. All leave car. Well-dressed mother with Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag stands by car on sidewalk keeping watch. Boy, about eight years old, stays by father throughout, observing and helping. Father, dressed in neat sport shirt, slacks and windbreaker, inspects car, opens trunk, rummages through; opens own car trunk full of tools, removes hacksaw, cuts for one minute. Lifts battery out and puts...
...acute as in New York, where an average 35,000 of the city's 100,000 pay phones are wrecked monthly. New York Telephone Co. last year lost nearly $1,000,000 in coins and spent $4,000,000 on repairs. The city's sidewalk phones are the worst hit: at least 25% are out of order all the time. At train stations, on subway platforms and in entire neighborhoods, it is sometimes impossible to find a working phone...