The Oscars red carpet, which has retained its reputable hue for nearly a century (except for instances of champagne to shake things up), is more than just a walkway.
—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
And under building review is Hillsboro Shores, a 10-story building with 121 homes and a public walkway along the Intracoastal.
Elon Musk, second from the left, walks along the colonnade at the White House on Feb. 19, 2025.
—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
23 Feb. 2025
Friends of the Parks and Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois had hoped to force the removal of the new steel-and-glass arena rising within the colonnades of the 1924 stadium.
2007: Chief Illiniwek, the controversial mascot of the University of Illinois, performed for the last time.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
But what has resonated most, the words that adorn hundreds of monuments erected in plazas, streets, and playgrounds across the world, is his prophecy that someday the grandes alamedas, the great avenues lined with trees, would open for the free people of tomorrow to walk through.
—
Ariel Dorfman,
The New York Review of Books,
31 Aug. 2023
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