Word: streetlighting
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...most good American narrative films. Since the caper gives events a trap-like structure, without closing out the growth of characterization, Ballard's lights make the settings eloquent without making them overbearing. When Cook is shot by his wife, he falls where his apartment's worn carpet catches streetlight. A parakeet screeches over the punk's fallen body, and the scene and the sound and Cook's tortured look express the squelching of a small man's daydreams...
...occupied or not. Laird pointed out that, of the known prison camp sites, Son Tay was the only one open enough to allow helicopter landings; this argument is a joke-something like the man who lost a dime in a dark alley and looked for it under the streetlight because he could see better there...
...were hanging out on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Plympton. under the streetlight there, you knew Spider was coming before you could see him. There was always a swaggering click, click, click cause of the taps on the bottoms of his PFC's. He got 'em put on at Cappy...
...fight we can wage. "Surely." Tom Wicker wrote in Tuesday's Times, "Mr. Nixon does not wish the world to see protesting Americans clubbed in the streets with the White House as a backdrop." Why would Nixon not want a good bloody knock-some-sense-into-their-dirty-heads streetlight to show the Viet Cong and the world that Nixon is in the driver's seat? And why should he be afraid of further alienating the anti-war movement? The fact that we have to beg for a parade permit after four years of this war shows our impotence...
...successful colony was established in Greenwood Cemetery, but soon all Brooklyn was occupied. The loud, tough sparrows quickly became well-adjusted Brooklynites, and they found the city a sparrow's paradise. The streets were strewn with the stable midden of the horse-&-buggy age, and under each bright streetlight was a discus of dead bugs...