The children stomp across the non-slip chicken wire on the wooden bridge, laughing and clutching their pads and pencils.
"It was one long scream at the industry and society," says Waller-Bridge, laughing.
"When I told people I'd found someone to drive me over the bridge, they laughed," said Ms. Casey, 41, a homemaker whose husband is a consultant.
Like a horde of vernal messengers, they have invaded the city: a lone woman in skirt and hat cutting through a sunny stretch of SoHo, a posse of Chinese boys with severe dye jobs doing 180's near the Brooklyn Bridge, a laughing young professional using hers as a laundry cart.
Rick: For bridge! (They all laugh).
Owner of Laughing Bridge who won one section of the Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Springs.
The New Yorker, August 12 , 1974P. 83 Owner of Laughing Bridge who won one section of the Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Springs.
By G. F. T. Ryall The New Yorker, August 12 , 1974P. 83 Owner of Laughing Bridge who won one section of the Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Springs.
We tried bungee jumping, but that was hardly the wilderness adventure we were looking for; after our jumps, we watched a young German woman during her free fall as her shirt rippled up around her neck, revealing more than a pink tummy, while bus tour groups stood on the side of the bridge gasping and laughing.
When I showed up at her apartment, sweating, despite the cool early-spring weather, because I'd biked across the Manhattan Bridge, Sonia was laughing and crying at the same time, saying, "It's Elena's fault, she made me drink all that water, so I had to pee, so I rushed out of the car, forgetting the paintings".
Mr. Fontana and Ms. Hecht had quickly told each other about their respective auditions for "A View From the Bridge," and had laughed about the notion of going from one Brooklyn setting (Brighton Beach) to another (the Red Hook neighborhood of Miller's play).
