Word: subway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reach the trail by rail. The Boston subway system, part of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) and called the T, is the oldest in the nation. And its four lines (red, green, blue and orange) will take you everywhere you need to go for just 85 cents a ride...
...Boston Common Visitor Kiosk ask for a guide to the Freedom Trail and let the red line (not to be confused with the subway line) take care of the rest. Along the trail, must sees for history buffs include: the State House; the Granary Burying Ground, final resting place of not only Samuel Adams and John Hancock but also of your childhood friend, Mother Goods; Old North Church, of Longfellow fame...
...which would be just so much familiar sloganeering if DiFranco's music wasn't so scathingly worthwhile. Her earlier albums, which featured songs with only her voice and a scratchy acoustic guitar, had a sort of subterranean urgency, like that of a subway performer rushing to finish a song and earn a few quarters before the train roars into the station. DiFranco's new CD, Dilate, is her best yet--her vocals and guitar work still seethe, but she's added atmospheric touches, such as a trippy hip-hop beat on a cover of the song Amazing Grace. Like Beck...
...appeared that supplied Communists with fresh followers. I remember walking around Moscow with my friend Syoma. The city was cold and dirty. One could easily break one's leg because the sidewalks, uncleared for months, were covered with mountains of ice. The squares and the streets near train and subway stations overflowed with vendors peddling rubbish, anything to make a living. In the clumsy stalls were bottles of whiskey, packs of chewing gum, piles of sunglasses. That is what the new regime offered the citizens of this great but impoverished city. Syoma, depressed and resigned, told me how twice...
Then it occurred to me that "average driver" was based on miles driven rather than skill at the wheel. My saving might be less than $27 because I live in New York City, where alternatives to driving are available and increasingly attractive. The subway system, for instance, has mostly new trains as well as many renovated stations, and I think of it as much safer now that Bernhard Goetz, the wonk vigilante, is moving to Boston...