One, on a restaurant-thick street, is so full even its grate is gunked up, and simple to sample: Sewer grease is gritty yet supple, sticky yet smooth, with hints of putty and beach tar.
The action, much of it shot with hand-held cameras that carry us into the thick of street brawls and petty crimes, relies too heavily on 70's-style pop-soul ballads sung by Millie Jackson, Isaac Hayes, Dennis Edwards and Marlene Shaw, among others, and augmented with multilingual rap and hip-hop music to deliver impassioned editorials.
Lord Mandelson, meanwhile, has brought a fresh subtleness to the government's recession management, plus a sense of hyperactive urgency and an icy menace towards recalcitrant banks.Red and blue in tooth and clawThe big beasts' most important attribute, however, may be their beastliness: their sharp-elbowed, thick-skinned, street-fighting toughness.
Your progress along the pavement is slowed by a thick mesh of street vendors.
Most of the time, he mutters in a thick (occasionally impenetrable) street accent; his Patrick is reserved, and people underestimate him.
PAGE A8 Bombs Kill 21 in Baghdad A bomber driving a sedan blew himself up on a Baghdad street thick with traffic in the deadliest in a series of blasts that killed at least 21 and hurt more than 70.
A1 21 Dead in Iraqi Car Bombings A suicide car bomber steered a white sedan into a street thick with traffic and blew himself up, the most deadly in a series of bombing attacks in Baghdad that killed at least 21 people and wounded more than 70, officials and witnesses said.
The mill, now demolished, was said to have been built on castle foundations up to 4 m (12 ft) thick; 15 Castle Street also rests on the old foundation wall.
Windows shattered in more than a hundred shops left the streets thick with broken glass.
Streets thick with tourists, shoppers, office workers and devotees ran with blood.
It was only on Monday that life began to resemble normal, with the dirt streets thick with people marching to work.
