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...Meanwhile, the streets are filling with athletes, family members and anyone who wants to look like an athlete or family member, all wearing colorful high-tech jackets. Standing at a stoplight, it's hard not to appreciate the violent color clash between a group of red-clad Chinese team members and athletes wearing the sunrise-orange U.S. team jacket, all sprinting across the street to beat the light...
...Last week I made $30,000," she said from her cell phone, pausing at a stoplight to sign an autograph for a fan. "I bought into Infospace.com and forgot about it. It ended up splitting. eBay is going to be huge, of course. I sell my underwear on eBay. One time I auctioned off a day on the set with me. I got $10,000." I'll put my money in any company that sells used underwear...
...eight miles up the road, Glimmerglass Opera was presenting the world premiere of Central Park, a trio of one-act operas with librettos by three top playwrights: A.R. Gurney (Love Letters), Terrence McNally (Master Class) and Wendy Wasserstein (The Heidi Chronicles). It was quite a lineup for a one-stoplight town--but nothing out of the ordinary for a summer opera festival that is increasingly regarded as the best of its kind...
...might think that if I got into a taxi and the driver began making graphic references to sex acts, I'd jump out at the first stoplight. But when it happened to me earlier this year, I wasn't even alarmed. For one thing, the driver was a woman. For another, the sexual references were parts of jokes she was telling about current events. And lately, I had heard jokes like them in plenty of private conversations--even from my own mother...
While we are waiting for the midnight call of "It's over" to signal the end of the shift, we drive around the block. At a stoplight, another squad car bumps into the back of our car, causing us both to turn around. The officers in the other car jokingly turn on the take-downs, and we squint as they pull alongside laughing...