The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

Taking the streetcar back to Kaiser's Fountain, I walked ahead, then left down the street opposite St. Sophia and just beyond the corner came to a small, one-story building with a red-tile roof, which is the entrance to the Sunken Palace.

It is always difficult, or at least time-consuming, to get approval of any kind of line under a public street, as one example.

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

Downtown Los Angeles is already two-thirds freeway, interchange, street, parking lot and garage -- one of those preposterous `` if '' statistics has already come to pass.

The downtown store continues to offer the great inducement of variety, both within its gates and across the street, where other department stores are immediately convenient for the shopper who wants to see what is available before making up her mind.

Public relations strategists everywhere, watching the reaction of the German press, the liberal press, the lunatic-fringe press, listening to their neighbors, studying interviews with men and women on the street, cried out: Too much, too much -- the mind of the audience is becoming dulled, the horrors are losing their effect.

This is particularly acute for those who attended Midwood High School directly across the street from Brooklyn College.

One of the offices slated for reconstruction is the aged Court of Claims, diagonally across the street from the White House.

One of the hardest chores a detective has is hanging around on a city street, trying to make himself inconspicuous, keeping an eye on the entrance of an office building and waiting.

He is the sort who, with an appraising eye, would cross the street to help a strange woman on to a bus and then pinch her.

Winsett is a quiet street with no taverns and was completely deserted at that hour.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.

" The American visitor " once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life " and " the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

A street sign in Vienna, " Fußgeher " is normally replaced with " Fußgänger " ( in English " Pedestrian ") in Germany.

The restoration of London progressed through the later half of the 880s and is believed to have revolved around a new street plan, added fortifications in addition to the existing Roman walls, and, some believe, the construction of matching fortifications on the South bank of the River Thames.

* A street in Belgrade ( Serbia ), next to the Belgrade University Library which is one of the Carnegie libraries, is named in his honor.

It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.

A deep ditch separated the city from its " suburb ;" its location is today marked by a wide street named " Graben " ( meaning Ditch ).

However, a special event to mark the signing is held every year on the 6th of April and involves a street procession and short piece of street theatre.

* The subject matter was considered “ vulgar ” and “ commonplace ,” with scenes of street people going about their everyday lives.

The chase featured a spectacular motorcycle stunt: stuntman Ronald " Duffy " Hambleton ( credited as Duffy Hamilton ), rode his police bike full speed into a fallen paint stand ( with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification ), flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne bike, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car that Duvall's character had escaped in-evidently the subject of a comment by Lucas detailing a " motorcycle disaster " during the filming.

Hopper derived his subject matter from two primary sources: one, the common features of American life ( gas stations, motels, restaurants, theaters, railroads, and street scenes ) and its inhabitants ; and two, seascapes and rural landscapes.

Any vehicle parked for more than 48 hours on any city street will be taken by city order, and is subject to a minimum $ 145 redemption cost ($ 125 towing plus $ 20 ticket ).

As for Martin he made his home available to residents for weekend social activities, where the subject often turned to his dream of building a community theater and expanding the community across 152nd street where lakes would be dug.

Across the street from the large stone church is Sparta Cemetery, which contains the grave of " The Leatherman ", subject of a Pearl Jam B-side of the same name.

Participles or participial clauses may be at the beginning or the end of a sentence, and a participial clause is usually attached to its subject, as in " Walking down the street ( clause ), the man ( subject ) saw the beautiful trees ( object ).

But because playgrounds are usually subject to adult supervision and oversight, young children's street culture often struggles to fully thrive there.

The documentary shows both the young artists struggling to express themselves through their art, and their points of view on the subject of graffiti, as well as the views of then New York City Mayor Ed Koch, one-armed graffiti writer Case / Kase 2, graffiti writer Skeme and his mother, graffiti " villain " Cap, now deceased graffiti writer Dondi, Seen and Shy 147, graffiti documentarian ( and co-producer of the film ) Henry Chalfant, breakdancer Crazy Legs of Rock Steady Crew, police officers, art critics, subway maintenance workers, as well as several " people on the street ".

The town centre is currently subject to a new multi-million pound investment, and Blackburn with Darwen Council have already made some refurbishments and renovations of key public places, notably the Church Street area with its Grade II listed art deco Waterloo Pavilions complemented by street furniture and sculptures.

This extract takes as its subject a set of roadworks in the street outside his New York home:

In 1925 Church Street became the subject of a pencil on paper drawing by Salford artist L. S. Lowry In his later " A Lancashire Village, 1935 " he painted the scene again, but with a wider street full of people and a house in front of the church.

The street fell into disrepair during the 19th and 20th centuries, with the houses being used as tenements, but has been the subject of restoration efforts in recent years.

Garnering critical praise with production from highly-regarded New York underground acts such as DJ Premier, Buckwild, and DipSet production duo the Heatmakerz, the rapper abandoned his previously money-oriented subject matter, stating that he " wanted it to be all street.

The swamp chestnut oak is sometimes cultivated as a large garden tree or street tree, and is quite easy to grow if it is not subject to extreme urban conditions.

This myth was the subject of an advertisement by the radio station Nova 100, in which comedian Dave Hughes claimed that he had seen a car on fire on a Deer Park street.

Their songs include subject matter consisting of drinking, fighting, drugs, sex, prostitutes, gangs, and street life.

Because of this, the traffic sign of the village is subject to street sign theft.

Their influence on the UK, Birmingham and Midlands hip hop scene has been the dark beats and deep, serious, street orientated subject matter.

Chestnut Avenue in Hyde Park was the subject of many articles in 2001 / 02, including one in the Daily Mail asking Is this the most burgled street in Britain ?.

His late 17th-century / early 18th-century exploits as a street urchin, mercenary soldier, vagabond, errand-boy, merchant, galley-slave, pirate, petty despot, spy, coiner, and terrorist in the employ of King Louis XIV are the subject, in the world of Stephenson's epic, not only of much of the text proper but also of widely-popular picaresque novels read by various characters in the story.

The Stonewall Inn, was a well known LGBT establishment located on Christopher street in two former horse stables which were renovated into one building in 1930 and was subject to countless raids since LGBT activities and fraternization were generally illegal.

On the other hand, much street photography takes the opposite approach and provides a very literal and extremely personal rendering of the subject matter, giving the audience a more visceral experience of walks of life they might only be passingly familiar with.