Then it was street photographers; any dropped burger wrapper was instantly mistaken for a portrait opportunity.
The answer, Osakwe reasoned, is clothing that is erotic but protective — not a short skirt and heels but a long, strapless red dress, evoking the traditional wrapper, that can easily be dropped in the act of seduction.
I prefer the faux naif approach: I once ran after a couple of teenagers who had dropped an ice-cream wrapper on the pavement and handed it to them, saying, "I think you lost this".
Stop walking down the street, unwrapping wrappers and just dropping stuff on the ground, and then calling City Hall and complaining about it.
From there she surveyed a proper urban scene: the shopkeeper opposite hanging out his coils of wire, high-school children dropping wrappers on the street, the tailor retiring at midday to water his plants, Irish longshoremen swaying home from the White Horse Tavern.
After the passer-by called the police, the bomb squad arrived, and a technician dropped onto the catwalk, among cigarette butts, bottle caps and gum wrappers, to examine a camera connected to a digital video recorder, the police said.
But Ms. Gomez and the other wrappers were going as fast as they could, given that some customers had each dropped off as many as 20 gifts to be wrapped.
The curtain rises for Jacobs when she puts her rubbish out at 8am, as gaggles of students rush to school dropping sweet wrappers in their wake.
I make my own first entrance into it a little after eight when I put out the garbage can, surely a prosaic occupation, but I enjoy my part, my little clang, as the droves of junior high school students walk by the center of the stage dropping candy wrappers.
I make my own first entrance into it a little after eight when I put out the garbage can, surely a prosaic occupation, but I enjoy my part, my little clang, as the droves of junior high students walk by the center of the stage dropping candy wrappers.
