Word: sidewalkers
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...watch, riveted, as Guillermo charges down the street with his walking stick, still hollering, until he reaches the sidewalk next to Elisa. Carefully, he leans his walking stick against a fence and then gestures for Elisa to shake hands. They shake hands for 30 solid seconds, and Elisa says, “Hola, Guillermo. Cómo está?” At this, he flings out his arms wildly and grins at her, waiting, expectant, almost cartoonish in his eagerness. She acquiesces, and he rockets his arms around her neck and clings to her for two minutes. She patiently...
...jolly parasites out to feast on them. Around midnight, 400 or so young people have lined up on either side of the Eighth Street Playhouse box office. Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate to strike up a monologue, he asks a gaggle of teens, "Excuse me, do you speak American?" This guy is a rap artist without synthesizer...
...that his earlier, exhibitionist model-battling treasure ships outside Treasure Island, for example-needed to be turned, literally, outside in. "I thought, Could I have been wrong all this time about the feature being in the front of the hotel?" says Wynn. "The audience shouldn't be on the sidewalk. It should be inside-eating, drinking, gambling, shopping. I had it 180 degrees wrong." Now he regrets giving people across the street at the Paris hotel free shows of his dancing waters at the Bellagio. "If I knew this then, I wouldn't have put tigers for people to walk...
...president, accompanied by University Provost Steven E. Hyman and a plainclothes police officer, walked briskly through the cold gray afternoon toward the reporters on the sidewalk across from the Science Center. But Summers, clearly agitated, made a wrong turn, making a right toward the Mallinckrodt biology labs rather than a left toward the doors of Lowell Lecture Hall...
...officer encountered a man sleeping on the sidewalk. He was awakened and told to take a taxicab home. When the man confusedly attempted to enter the police cruiser, he was placed under arrest. Christopher R. Klemenz, 21, of Cambridge, is charged with disorderly conduct and for possession of a Class D substance...