Word: backyarders
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...simple administrative rules can take care of regulating the use of first-year common space. Unfortunately, the FDO does not have the same influence over Cambridge criminals. And frankly, the FDO should be more concerned with the possibility of a student getting raped in Thayer’s backyard than with the chance of finding an upper-class student studying in its basement. With two indecent assaults taking place within the gates of the Yard in the past two months, the FDO can no longer pretend that Harvard Yard is a safe haven for students...
...love playing with my brother,” Steve Cohen said. “I really missed having him out there last year. We’ve been playing together in the backyard, in school, for as long as I can remember...
...separated from Carmela in the incendiary Season 4 finale. He's living in the house that belonged to his deceased, emasculating mother (on The Sopranos, you can never escape your family history). Carmela's at casa Soprano with an angry teenage son--and a wild black bear invading the backyard, a menacing inversion of the family of ducks that settled in the pool in Season 1, precipitating Tony's first panic attack and trip to therapy. (Hammering home the metaphor, an animal-control expert tells Carmela that the corn Tony bought to feed the ducks has gone bad, attracting...
...background is necessary here. I’m from Yonkers, New York, which one eloquent Urban Dictionary contributor correctly defined as a “shithole north of NYC.” Sometimes referred to as the “sixth borough” or the “backyard of the Bronx,” the city suffers from a severe inferiority complex. I think where I live is pretty nice, but I realize the place has a bad reputation. Much like Detroit or Kabul, it’s not a locale that has tourists flocking...
When he returned, Britell joined The Witness Protection Program, an instrumental-hip-hop band. He spotted their potential in the backyard of the Fox his sophomore fall. “They needed a keyboardist,” he says. “When I started doing stuff with them I started basically composing a lot of hip-hop beats and just a lot of music in general. Composing was something I had done when I was a kid, just for fun, but I never really approached it from a serious vantage—that fall I sort...