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...earliest memory of John is when I was about four years old. I was in my backyard playing with my neighbor’s dog. I saw my mother carrying John from behind, her arms wrapped around his waist, his legs dangling down toward the concrete driveway. My father followed with John’s wheelchair, begging her to calm down. But she kept yelling at John to walk, not to play dumb. Her face was red. Even then, I knew that John’s grunting could only mean he was frightened. My mother let go and John crashed...
...Boston is completely scrapping and rebuilding its infrastructure, putting vast new roads underground and building new bridges and tunnels as well. The community paid for the multibillion dollar project using public funds from the state, local and federal levels and had to overcome a lot of not-in-my-backyard (NIMBY) opposition to get it done. The result, when completed, will be an infrastructure that provides ease of access and quality of life benefits unmatched by any city of Boston’s size and age in the country...
Such themes fit well with the Market Theater’s mission, which involves takings risks and bringing non-traditional theater to the greater Boston area. The Market means high quality theater in our own backyard, and with special student rush tickets available an hour before the show, Harvard students should find a different kind of pre-party entertainment in the Square...
...there may be a kind of reassuring not-in-my-backyard quality to this fear - 62 percent of respondents believed their town or city would not be a target, and the percentage who have "considered" purchasing disaster-related items - a gas mask, a gun, an anthrax or smallpox vaccine - did not top the 31 percent who had considered stocking up on bottled water. Sixty percent said life in their community had returned to normal since the attacks, yet 58 percent said the country was in deep and serious trouble - the highest percentage since...
Inspirations of Tanenhaus include her father, who is also a visual artist. “Dad collects mannequin legs,” says Tanenhaus. “We have a couple sticking out of the lawn in the backyard.” Tanenhaus also mentions a Dali painting with eyes on a plate, which may or may not have been formative. “It’s kind of a cheap shot,” she says. “If you have a limb where it’s not supposed to be, it’s going...