Word: sidewalkers
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...France has for most of this century had a love-hate relationship with U.S. popular culture. The government has, for example, fought hard to maintain trade protections on French cinema in the face of the Hollywood onslaught. To watch Levis-clad French college kids in sidewalk cafés discussing the trial of Puffy Combs or the Cruise-Kidman divorce makes it plain that this such protections are a doomed holding action. But cuisine - cuisine is different. Ask any French man or woman for their views on U.S. cuisine, and nine times out of ten you'll be told, "They...
...eliminating corruption and reforming the jail, his manager and several other volunteers--many of whom were off-duty cops--swore they were being followed. Late one night the candidate and another county official were shadowed by a mysterious man in a dark Ford Expedition as they stood on a sidewalk outside a Decatur restaurant and talked about the extent of the corruption, possibly involving bail bondsmen at the jail. Jack Stanford, a DeKalb police officer and close campaign aide, even suggested Derwin and the others begin carrying guns. None of it spooked Derwin. "All of us be careful," he would...
...power to destroy a whole Asian economy with the click of a mouse. That guy in the pizza parlor who looks like Bill Gates - chances are it in fact is the world's richest man. The bearded guy who just skidded awkwardly by on the icy sidewalk - Saudi oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who with a couple of words into his a cell phone could drive up the price of gasoline at your local pump by 20 cents within a month...
...Here's what I mean. New York sidewalks are about eight feet wide. And there you are, walking up Madison Avenue and coming in the opposite direction is a family from Omaha, Nebraska, mother, father, three children, walking five across, taking up the whole sidewalk, so that anyone who wants to get by must either trudge into the street, hug the wall of a building, or bust through like a fullback on third...
...understand that Omaha is in the Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...