Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene is a familiar one to all small boys with big dreams: make-believe football games in the backyard, played in solitude to the roar of an imaginary crowd. "I'd throw up the ball, pretend it was a kickoff, then run and fake and flip and fall down and get up again and call another play. Sometimes I'd pretend it was a pass. I'd run and catch it or dive for it. That...
Mira is the central character in this book. She spent her childhood on a leash in her suburban backyard. (At age five, Mira had taken off all her clothes and toddled to the store. Her parents didn't much like the idea of roping her up but didn't think they had much of an alternative.) She is a bright, lonely child who skipped ahead several grades in school and read Nietzsche while her girlfriends giggled over boys. In college Mira comes into her own, speaking her thoughts and expressing her curiousity. The reader resents, as Mira did, the male...
MOST CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS continue to complain that it's unpleasant to have Harvard building in the backyard. But unfortunately, this community group lacks the kind of energy it needs to stop it. The fight against the Kennedy Library gained momentum as time wore on and finally succeeded in wearing Harvard out, thus breaking a long string of Harvard victories in town-gown fights. But now it looks like old times again...
...Vernie Ruffin. Indeed, in old neighborhoods on the city's West Side, the rodents, many of which have become immune to the poisons used by the health department, are having a population explosion. They bite kids, raid kitchens and even battle residents for tomatoes and cantaloupes growing in backyard gardens...
...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...