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...Hand-drawn fliers, press clips and photos amplify the interviews, most of which were conducted in 2000 (two years before Strummer's death at age 50) for the Grammy-winning documentary Westway to the World. The book reveals fresh anecdotes that aren't in the film, and affords a fuller recounting of others, such as Strummer's ham-fisted attempt at rioting during London's 1976 Notting Hill Carnival: "We were standing around this car with a box of Swan Vesta [matches] and it's one thing to say, 'Burn the cars and burn the ghetto,' but you try setting...
...painted 360 pictures of north London, which sell steadily through a local gallery. He doesn't mind being called an "urban realist," but doesn't know what he'd call himself: "In a way I'd rather just get on with it and call it something afterwards." In Westway he depicts a scene under a motorway, the curve of the road cutting off a generic blue sky. On the nearest strut is a thick accretion of graffiti, and greenery struggles for life. The harsh contrast of light and dark is reminiscent of art of the 1940s, but Free explains this...
...that runs along the Hudson River--or, really, stumbles along the Hudson River--on the western edge of Manhattan. By chance, it once gave me a strong intimation of mortality. In 1973 portions of the highway collapsed, triggering years of arguments about replacing it with a gargantuan project called Westway and then more years of constant construction whose purpose has never been apparent. Sitting in a traffic jam maybe 15 years after the original collapse, I was suddenly hit with the realization that I was not going to live to see the West Side Highway back in regular operation...
...Marcy Benstock '63, a professional organizer credited with stopping New York City's Westway development, says she grew interested in politics only after graduation. "When I was at Radcliffe I was apolitical," she says. "I was an English major...
...says her efforts to reduce pollution led naturally to the battle against the Westway Project, which she describes as "spending billions of dollars to build a highway and real estate in a precious area of the Hudson...