1. Back in Pasadena, wearing his Olympic sweatshirt with a big USA on the front, he pushed a broom sweeping downtown streets. 2. Fifteen orange-vested offenders pushed brooms on and around Market Street. 3. Hennig does consider himself lucky to have been born into a sport where someone who pushes a broom and cleans up after animals can feel like a king. 4. I think I would want to begin the movie with Inez pushing a broom at the foundry, a job he had most of his life. 5. Inez Tims, who pushed a broom for a living, pushed all of us into full integration of our schools. 6. Mae Smith grew up in Lula, Miss., where a man named Frank Frost pushed a broom at her school. 7. My experience had been that you came back from Europe and the only black people you would see in airports were people pushing a broom. 8. Now nobody makes a living pushing a broom on a basketball floor, not even one as sacred as our parquet. 9. Onscreen, Damon, playing the genius janitor Will Hunting, pushes a broom at MIT and ponders a mathematical problem on a blackboard. 10. Then everyone returned to assigned tasks, including a single city sanitation worker, diligently pushing a broom past the blown-out buildings of Church Street. |