Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow's Arbat pedestrian mall, evening strollers cluster around a young guitarist. The music has stopped, and the passersby follow a heated argument between a dowdy middle-aged woman and a policeman. Clearly on the defensive, the officer insists that he is not forbidding the street musician to play but only questioning why he is cadging coins. "Times have changed," the angry music fan counters. "The police should not be sticking their noses into matters that don't concern them." The Moscow cop walks away grumbling, "Right now, anything goes...
Boston should "hang onto" its individuality and its accessibility to pedestrians, said Kent Bartwick, President of the New York Municipal Art Society. "If you believe yourselves to be a pedestrian city, fight fiercely for it. Hang on to a sense of yourself," he said...
From the Festung Hohensalzburg, the fortified stone redoubt above the glorious Austrian city where Mozart was born, the old town presents a serene, unruffled vista. But look closer. Down on the Getreidegasse, a narrow medieval street near the Salzach River that is now a pedestrian mall, a motley multinational horde is snapping photos of the ancient house where young Wolfgang first quickened to the sound of his father's violin. Huge tour buses rumble down the streets and across the bridges, daily following the shade of Julie Andrews into the movie-set countryside. The garages are jammed, the restaurants...
Spycatcher, the autobiography of Peter Wright, former assistant director of Britain's counterintelligence agency, is not the stuff of a runaway best seller. The writing is pedestrian, and many of Wright's revelations about the inner workings of MI5, although sensational, have been made elsewhere. But a 23-month campaign by Margaret Thatcher's government to ban the book and any reports about its contents in Britain and the Commonwealth has turned the book into an international publishing phenomenon. It has also sparked a showdown between a defiant Fleet Street and a stubborn Prime Minister over Britain's press...
...snow. That something is dune grass. After the dunes form, the roots anchor the sand in place. "Dune grass is pretty hardy stuff," explains Stephen Leatherman, a University of Maryland coastal-erosion expert. "It can take salt spray and high winds. But it just never evolved to take heavy pedestrian traffic or dune buggies." Since the plants depend on chlorophyll in their green leafy parts to convert sunlight into food, he says, and since there is only so much food reserve in the roots, "a couple of weekends with a few hundred people walking back and forth to the beach...