Sentences with phrase «street peddler»

Djbril (Sy Alassane), an aspiring singer and Canal Street peddler, may move through a gray - market immigrant world of pirated CDs and sketchy back rooms, but everyone and everywhere looks fashion - spread terrific, thanks to the serenely muted colors and elegant, wide - screen compositions by the cinematographer Bradford Young.

Thousands of banner - waving protesters poured across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday for a Manhattan rally condemning the killing of street peddler Amadou Diallo and police brutality.

Had we not turned this viral marketing event into a concert, everyone would have thought we were street peddlers!

There were so many long lines everywhere with tourists waiting to go in and street peddlers selling mini colosseums and popes.

Drank some local wine, got harassed by five different street peddlers and watched all the stunts being pulled, like this one guy who hid himself with a blanket and stroller, he poked his head out of the stroller as if he was a baby, and scared people walking by.

Featuring a cast of transsexuals, cross-dressers, prostitutes, hustlers, bikers, eccentrics, circus performers, street urchins, tearaways, gang members, back - street peddlers and survivalists, the works present the outsider as an agent of change.

Michael Lin's new installation Money Tree - Evergreen evokes a scene once common to the daily hustle and bustle of Shanghai, where street peddlers used to ride Chinese manufactured bicycles selling paper pinwheels.

Not exact matches

@klin who told you am a common man, by the way am drug peddler on the london street, tell police to come arrest me.It seems you do nt want me here!

A bill being introduced Wednesday afternoon would authorize the city Department of Transportation to establish rules for activity in the plazas — which could mean those street entertainers regarded as nuisances as well as assorted peddlers are confined to a designated area or driven away entirely.

Street - level drug peddlers use pay phones and pagers to communicate to avoid police eavesdroppers, and the phone company has waged war on them for decades.

IN the streets of Kathmandu, where drug peddlers and holy men compete with shoeshine boys and rickshaw drivers for the tourist dollar, a new trade is springing up.

These special effects are merely the epitome of Stargate's second - hand wonder; part of the film's value as a curiosity piece is its New York street - merchant vibe: like peddlers of the Rolux watch or Parda handbag, Emmerich and co - producer / co-writer Dean Devlin are selling us an approximation of a blockbuster by a licensed hitmaker, and we excuse them the same way we allow for the smudgy print of carbon copies or the colour bleed on VHS dubs.

As this fascinating timeline from the Center for Educational Telecommunications shows, Chinese peddlers were transforming the streets of New York back in 1830, and by the start of the 20th century, Korean immigrants were forming churches and mutual assistance societies in Hawaii and California.

On the beach, there are many peddlers along the street, selling various local specialties, such as crafts, T - shirts, beach clothes and accessories.

Dem» Golden Slippers is a performance and installation inspired by the street vendors and self - employed peddlers originally housed in the Essex Street Mstreet vendors and self - employed peddlers originally housed in the Essex Street MStreet Market.

Cairo is awash in plastics, the water bottles from which everybody drinks, and worse, cheap knock - off - clothing, sneakers, flip - flops and household items imported from China spread out by peddlers on the streets.