Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hustled aboard buses and taken to a TraveLodge motel for introductory lessons on American life: how to operate light switches, how to use a toilet. Many stood on the motel's second-floor balcony and stared uncomprehendingly at the rush of traffic below. Others squatted on the pink sidewalk and simply gazed at their feet. They had journeyed several centuries in 19 hours, and the shock would be a long time wearing...
...full voice on the street," he says. Once, as he was approaching the climactic A-flat in the prologue to I Pagliacci, a bus stopped between him and his audience. Without missing a beat, he stepped into the bus, blasted out the Aflat, then hopped back onto the sidewalk as the startled driver and passengers rolled away...
...sausages and squid and the Santo Christo Society with the Portuguese flag in front slowly give way to Italian East Cambridge, where everyone gathers on the main street to chat. Kids play craps on a side street crosswalk, and every home with a few feet between it and the sidewalk has a garden--lush beds of marigolds, cucumbers and tomatoes...
...people of this community may move to Miller River, an elderly housing project right on Cambridge St. Where they can continue to sit on folding chairs on the sidewalk, greeting passersby and keeping an eye on the community. A fat man dressed meticulously in black stands guard outside his funeral home, keeping the parking lot clear for mourners whom he welcomes with just the right mix of reserve and geniality. A baseball game half a block off Cambridge St. is more an occasion for drinking Schlitz than playing ball, but abusing the ump is the favorite sport. "Only...
...based Snyder Roller Skate Co., which outfitted the U.S. athletes at the Pan-Am Games, makes precision-built skates for professional rollers. Sales of its basic but still pricey ($109 to $175) models have risen by 30% in the past year. The roller boom has spawned a flock of sidewalk entrepreneurs who rent skates from the backs of vans. But the people who are really cleaning up, besides the equipment suppliers, are rink operators. In fact, they claim that their efforts to scrub up roller skating's image have been a major factor in the sport's success...