Word: backyarders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Personally, I love my parents. They help me with a lot of difficult decisions, like whether I should use hot or cold water with the washing machine. I even enjoy hanging out with them while they tell me exciting news from home, like which birds have been frequenting our backyard feeder or about the new “yield” sign on our street. But let’s face it: When our parents come to visit us in college, our stress meter reaches...
...want for Christmas is a backyard water park ($100,000) and a spaceflight ($1.7 million). You can order both from Neiman Marcus, which just unveiled its extravagant 2006 Christmas Book...
...backyard was spacious by oft-cramped Capitol Hill standards. Foley was probably the oldest in a small crowd that downed burgers and hot dogs in addition to plenty of beer and probably a good many gin and tonics. Fordham was there, as I recall, and some of Foley's other aides, including some attractive young women. One or two other reporters were there in addition to my colleague...
...late afternoon in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, and Renee Tanaka isn't worried about where her teenage son Ryan or his friends are. They're in the backyard, safely gambling the day away...
...Irwin was a showman, but his genius was to always play himself. Children can readily spot fakes. The imagination and stories of our young are biased toward creatures you don't encounter in the backyard or at the shops. Irwin didn't surround himself with common marsupials. Rather, he was a danger man who celebrated the bad boys of the animal kingdom-ugly spiders and crocs, snakes and sharks. Kids imbibed the childlike exuberance of the loud man in shorts and his taste for adventure; he was more like them than their parents-buttoned-down folk who worked in offices...