From the street, a terracotta walkway flows through a grassy front yard before emptying out at a covered colonnade.
—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
16 Apr. 2025
Trump makes his announcement on ‘Liberation Day’ U.S. flags were draped along the White House colonnade for a red-white-and-blue backdrop when Trump announced his tariffs on Wednesday, April 2.
Or are Allende’s grandes alamedas still beckoning all these years later?
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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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