street-corners

The traditional handshake—the sort that presidents, diplomats, and business folk have used to seal deals and greet one another for centuries—has gone the way of the wood racket, replaced by the sort of hand-slapping thumb-grabbing gesture most often associated with street-corners and playground basketball courts.

Getting a Fair Shake Is All You Can Ask For 2011

" Rising rents, increased competition from online and corporate rivals, and more scrutiny from city agencies that impose fines" are forcing these staples of New York street-corners out of business, the report says.

A New York Fixture, Korean Stores Are Closing Across New York The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

There hadn't been a chance, so far, to do him more mischief than curse, and nights spent hanging around street-corners had sapped my resolution abominably, as well as giving me the cold.

Watershed 2010

The remorseless, almost repulsive realism with which the hunchback is endowed identifies him as a crippled beggar or fisherman who eked out bare subsistence on the street-corners and waterfronts of Hellenistic ports like Alexandria, the city which played a leading role in creating and maintaining genre subjects like these as a principal current in Hellenistic art.

TB or not TB 2009

Isn't this how it should be, that our superior God-like Banksters should swim in money while we inferior beings go homeless on street-corners, looking for the nearest soup kitchens?

OpEdNews - Quicklink: OUR SUPERIOR BEINGS: Wall Street 40% Bonus Rise Feeds Spending on $43 Steak, Co-ops 2009

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But you wouldn't know it from how we're depicted in the press -- instead, we're the bodies blown apart on street-corners, the shoeless sheep having our hemorrhoid cream confiscated at the airport.

Boing Boing 2007

I know your picturesque street-corners, winding up-hill Heaven knows why or where!

Reprinted Pieces 2007

This is the kind of thing I want to see printed as a pamphlet and handed out on busy street-corners: if ten percent of it were taken to heart by ten percent of the email-sending world, humanity would be immeasurably benefitted.

Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005

Roads in Maine and in other north-country locales grow progressively narrower as winter advances, the mounds and then berms and then levees of packed snow creeping in from both sides until two cars can't pass except at driveway mouths and you can't see intersecting traffic at street-corners.

Curbs jhetley 2007