Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haymarket--get off the Red Line at Park St. and walk down there--is as good a place as any to buy vegetables and pistachio nuts at reasonable prices. A big open market with a European-type atmosphere, Haymarket is usually closed on Sundays, and very crowded on Saturdays...
Those interested in the deeper and darker--and older--side of things will like the Starr Bookstore on Plympton St. It's one of those places that you stroll into, perhaps in search of an obscure, out-of-print copy of The Scarlet Letter. When you walk in the door, your first glance will tell you that you will never be able to find it; amazingly enough, however, the salespeople there usually seem to know off the top of their heads if they have what you want, and they are extraordinarily nice about helping you. The store is very crowded...
...your medicine." His voice is nasal and far away yet it rings true when he sings, "I want to find my way to heaven, 'cause I did my time in hell." Whether or not Richard is tipping his hand concerning his legal problems when he sings, "I'm gonna walk, before they make me run," this could be his finale with the group (excluding the 40 or so tracks they have reportedly put in the can.) Yet what comes through from the bright Brown-Sugar like chords and Richard's lyrics is optimism...
...vandalism, drug use and academic failure are grounds for expulsion. Students may come with low reading skills, but they must read at twelfth-grade level to graduate. Adams himself sometimes accosts students as they go home: "If you're not on the honor roll, you can't afford to walk out of school without any books...
Whatever the plight of the farmers, the real victims are the consumers. Complains New Yorker Henrietta Wise: "Every time I walk into a grocery store, I'm terrified. It's more than the prices, it's the whole concept of food. It's the basic substance of life." Some shoppers have become de facto vegetarians because of the sky-high price of meat, but vegetables are no bargain either. Marsha Avrushin of Oak Park, Mich., has taken to prowling supermarkets for off-brand items. Says she: "When I was a kid, a candy bar was a real treat. What makes...