Word: subway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiddler crabs that live in the marsh. Amidst the dust swirling up to the whirling blades of police helicopters hovering above, the demonstrators poured over the parking lot. They clapped and cheered as they saw a second line of demonstrators moving inland from the sea like a slow subway train. Stopping about every 70 yards, they seeded their path with Indian corn. A third group, coming from the north, made a stone walkway across the marsh, scattering the rocks after they had passed in order to leave no mark...
...vodka martinis, love beads to lustrous pearls. We buy lettuce and grapes either because we've forgotten that we shouldn't or because Cesar Chavez's cause seems hopeless or because we've ceased to care about California's farm workers. And when we scan a semi-crowded subway car, we unconciously choose a seat next to a member of our own race. Slogans linger but they no longer resound with passion. Instead, they splash across slick Madison Avenue advertisement. "Eat our yogurt. Rediscover nature...
There is no way to group the galleries on Newbury Street into any kind of coherent review on one kind of art so the fact that they are all on one street will have to suffice as a justification. It's a great street though, right off the Arlington subway stop, with at least thirty galleries squeezed in between boutiques covering six city blocks...
...make it permanent, citing several reasons for the action. Two years ago the University said that the expected increase in foot traffic caused by the location of the Cambridge Bicentennial Office in Holyoke Center required the ban. But the office is no longer there, and the claim that subway construction slated to start this spring will create congestion in the area is dubious, as there is no reliable way of predicting what effect the underground construction will have...
...News? A Survey of the Selective Predilection of 250 New York City Subway Riders for News Stories Headlined 'War', 'Plane Crash,' 'Assassination,' 'Rape,' 'Murder,' 'Kidnapping...