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...Friday, 5 p.m., Park Street, red line. Trains whiz by left and right. An 8.5" by 11" sign perches on a guitar case: "This performance has been modified in the following manner: It is fitted to fit this subway platform." Karl Swetland wears a yellow hat over frizzy brown hair that creeps out like Weird Al Yankovic's and a pink tie-dyed shirt reading "Red Raspberries" that compliments his acid-washed jeans perfectly. Commuters look on in wonder as the beanie babies in his guitar case stare back in equal amusement. Swetland fights for attention with the little girls...
...Bianchi is a funny character. The 30-year-old has played in subways full time for the past 18 months and truly tells it like it is, singing, "the rats on the tracks always upstage me," "I just love to play, all day, hooray" and "please stay behind the yellow line." Bianchi sticks to his motto, "keep it real," which has taught him many a lesson in his day. He tells a story of himself working a slow night at Hynes Convention Center. "If not to make it worse, this guy spilled this whole jar of tomato sauce all over...
...Meet Carlos Hernandez, a Cambridge cab driver for the Yellow Cab Company. He has curly black hair, dark skin and a slightly rotund physique. He is soft-spoken yet intelligent, and eases into casual conversation with the fluidity of a professional. "I give rides to the whole spectrum of society, from the lowest to the highest," he says with a charming Spanish accent. "I pick up professors, I pick up students, I pick up drug dealers, I pick up pimps.... I'm very open-minded when I talk to people...
...Carlos has served a twelve-year stint with the Yellow Cab Co., working nights. He claims no divine source of inspiration in choosing the job. After emigrating from El Salvador 20 years back, he found himself in need of work. Getting his taxi license, known in cab jargon as a "hacking license," was the obvious choice. "No matter how bad the economy is," he says, "you can always get a job as a cab driver." It is steady work, which he enjoys mostly because of the variety of people he meets...
...doubt Harvard would ever do anything like this--its general attitude seems to be that innovative student-life programs are for weak sissy colleges. Mandate a semester off and you might as well change the school colors to yellow and granola. The official excuse would probably be that students need all 32 half-courses to really complete a Harvard education. Really. I seriously doubt that you'll even remember what you learned in Literature and Arts B-57, "Leonardo da Vinci Meets Leonardo di Caprio" two years later--in its place will be jokes you got over e-mail...