Word: traffics
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...When I ask to see some of his earlier films, he insists on taking me to a cinema in the heart of the city to watch the films on the big screen. As we pick our way through the Trivandrum traffic in his boxy Honda, chasing down a couple of spare prints, Adoor decries "the bankruptcy of mainstream Indian cinema"; he quite proudly states that he almost never watches popular Indian films - except occasionally on TV, where "the commercials actually come as a welcome relief." Adoor's own preferences still run toward the aging European masters who first inspired...
...catch her breath at the border, "I feel strange and emotional." The most impenetrable barrier in Europe - complete with razor wire, U.N. peacekeepers and venomous graffiti - was transformed overnight into a block party. Even Turkish Cypriot police got in the mood, helping elderly Greeks cross the line. A traffic jam 10 km long snaked back from the border. At a small seaside café, a Turkish Cypriot student traded stories with visiting Greek Cypriot teens in broken English. "We are taught the Greeks will kill you," he explained. "They're taught the Turks will kill you. In fact, we have...
...Asia. The global health group has issued a travel advisory, urging " persons planning to travel [to Toronto] to consider postponing all but essential travel." Meanwhile, Toronto city officials are furious with the announcement, claiming the WHO's decree is premature, and arguing the resultant decline in tourist and business traffic could send the city into a financial tailspin. The mayor has asked the WHO to repeal the advisory...
When she left her “two traffic-light town” of Beverley, Ohio for Cambridge, she says she found the college atmosphere, and especially pre-med classes “large and impersonal...
...yard is evicted] the stuff that comes into the port will have to be trucked out to Worcester [the next nearest rail yard], which causes its own traffic and pollution problems...