Word: uptowners
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...wind in New York City shifted around to the south and began to blow smoke uptown, Harvard alumni across the country continued to update electronic lists of secure graduates...
...asked what was happening; they said there was a bomb. My coworker saw me and grabbed me and we ran. I looked up saw WTC on fire. That's when my coworker said he just had to get out of there, and he ran away. I started walking uptown, and then all of a sudden I heard another loud explosion from behind me, and people started screaming again and running past me. "The second one's been hit," people said. I turned around and saw the smoke and second building on fire. I still haven't heard from my good...
...125th Street and Lenox Ave. newspaper kiosk, I spotted a colorful brochure among a stack of giveaways. Multicolored lettering against neon orange implored: "Harlem: Your Uptown Spot to Shop!" Using this map of stores, restaurants, and services as a guide I made a random selection of locations and jumped to this new shopping challenge...
...Manhattan recently I attempted something that is thought to be all but impossible for a black man: I tried to hail a cab going uptown toward Harlem after dark. And I'll admit to feeling a new nervousness. This simple action--black man hailing cab--is now a tableau in America's ongoing culture war. If no cab swerves in to pick me up, America is still a racist country, and the entire superstructure of contemporary liberalism is bolstered. If I catch a ride, conservatives can breath easier. So, as I raise my hand and step from the curb, much...
...names savor of medicinal witcheries and faery mythologies. Weeds are infinitely more interesting in their way than mere pampered uptown flowers, those sleek, over bred showdogs. You can boil the wild weeds, eat them, put them on wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...