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In itself, however, the act of memorising things does not provide limitless journalistic colour, and it is Foer's detours down other side-streets of memory that make for some of the book's most compelling moments.
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She still believes i could be HIM, if i could just polish my act. i keep telling her that i'm today with no future; my apartment is only walls and punched-in holes. i keep telling her that i'm a veteran of three wars and we're still losing Avenue C to the bankers from gangrenous side-streets. i tell her I'm out of insecticide. i'm shaking an empty can.
Everything I Have Is Broken David Woodruff 2011
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The force moved in arresting people, chasing others into side-streets and filling the square with clouds of tear gas.
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No, it's just there already, in the seams, the interstices, the back-alleys and side-streets of our world.
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Dimensions variable, 51 x 64 cm. Down the side-streets they could see the great viscous mass lifting over the rooftops, flowing through the gutted buildings … Here and there the perimeter of the dyke moored itself to a heavier obstruction – a church or government office – and diverged from its circular path around the lagoon.
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The force moved in arresting people, chasing others into side-streets and filling the square with clouds of tear gas.
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He presumed that they were walking towards their building and was surprised, once they had walked through a number of side-streets, to find that Abdul was leading him away from the flat towards the barber shop.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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Volunteers piled into side-streets instead, picking up coat hangers and discarded security tags from looted clothing stores.
Immigrants Unite to Protect Their Threatened Neighborhood Guy Chazan 2011
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He presumed that they were walking towards their building and was surprised, once they had walked through a number of side-streets, to find that Abdul was leading him away from the flat towards the barber shop.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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Our course was changed at once, and we dodged around corners and raced up and down side-streets till Mr. Taft's generous form loomed up ahead of us.
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