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Other vehicles amass on the double-decker sandwich of steel overhead, Boston's other Green Monster, the Central Artery. The Artery was built in the 1950s to funnel 75,000 cars each day into and out of the city; today, over 200,000 cars a day crawl along the outdated expressway. Back below on street level, the honking of horns and the colorful shouts of angry drivers harmonize with the rumble and roar of the bulldozers, cement mixers and dump trucks beginning the construction of the proposed direct underground rail link between North and South Station...
...wrong, or the last." Johnson might have made the 1988 Olympic team as a sophomore, but he suffered a stress fracture in one leg. The next year a pulled quadriceps caused him to miss most of the outdoor season. "The adversity helped him," says Hart. "He was like hammered steel." Johnson stayed healthy in 1990 and began a 47-race winning streak (31 in the 200 and 16 in the 400) that carried him to the 1991 world championship in the 200. At the Olympic trials in '92, he ran the 200 in 19.79 seconds, the fastest time in four...
...hypnotic concentration for almost two minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground and proceeds to rocket, upside-down, toward the bar hanging nearly 20 ft. above his head. He has barely cleared the bar when one official turns to the other...
...heir to the Frick steel fortune whose relatives have figured in business and government for centuries, John Fife Symington III made his local reputation as a real estate developer. But 13 of his projects went belly up. One, the Phoenix Mercado mall, was financed with $10 million from six union pension funds, which sued for repayment, eventually forcing Symington into bankruptcy...
Among the pleasures of Millhauser's fourth novel, which continues in the author's previous vein of treating American history with dreamlike obsession, are descriptions of Manhattan as it began to transform its landscape into a 20th century skyline: an eruption of "modern flowers with veins of steel, bursting out of bedrock." It does not take a Viennese mind doctor to find eroticism in such charged imagery. Building cities is a procreative business, and Dressler is an evocative example of a breed driven to reproduce itself in concrete. A decision to marry a withdrawn woman of no discernible personality...