Pushing my past down Seventh Avenue, I couldn't help but wonder how I had grown up to be so un-prolific.
In the park "Oh, my God," said a Swedish woman as I wafted past, down a path in Brockwell Park, London.
He took a journalist on a tour of the bar's hardscrabble past, down to the unfinished basement, where, the story goes, the gangland boss Waxey Gordon once ran a gambling operation.
Down with the past, down with the future, down with the fantastical, the far-flung, the feathery: on your bike, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Milton - and take the brothers Grimm with you.
But, he continues, as it "tweaks the attitudes and behaviors of the past, 'Down With Love' is careful to uphold the right-thinking norms of the present, denying the audience the pleasures of subversion and satire".
Dates matter to her: she sprinkles them in the titles of her poems ("1953", "5th April 1990"), and in conversation is careful to get them right, pinning her past down precisely, day by day, year by year.
Summer rush hour isn't bad, but on our way to one appointment, we drove past down-at-the-heels urban neighborhoods the whole way.
For workers who have lost their jobs, the curretn recession feels no less severe than past down-turns that sent the unemployment rate spiraling toward 10percentt.
Boos erupted as demonstrators walked past Downing Street.
That individual claimed that he was walking past Downing Street when he heard Mitchell call officers on the gate "plebs".
Somewhere past Downing Park -- the 35-acre green designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the architects of Central Park -- the streetscape changed from cracked sidewalks to cropped lawns.
