Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When we took walks to the Arnold Arboretum, their imaginary guns zinged electronically, echoing Star Wars. Inside I saw a lanky boy with puckered lips proudly enter a practice room, touting a city-owned trombone. Once a group of five little boys and I spent an afternoon discovering a cornfield--in view of the Boston skyline--plucking off dry cobs and scattering the kernels...
...times. He is a master at manipulating the media. On the night that he edged out the official Democratic candidate for mayor by only 2,900 votes of the 180,000 cast, Kucinich was in the newsroom of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he once worked as a copy boy. While photographers clicked their cameras, he sent the edited story of his victory by pneumatic tube to the composing room...
Then, at 2½, Noah stopped talking. He seemed to have slipped his worldly moorings and drifted into an uncharted inland sea. No one could follow him. Physicians concluded that the boy suffered from autism, a variety of schizophrenia that literally means self-involved...
...skinny boy played and played Push...
Jerry Williams, a reporter for WNEX radio, then stood up and walked to the podium, followed by what looked like a page boy carrying a briefcase. He faced the panel of senators and representatives and dumped the contents of the case out on the table. A torrent of letters fell amongst the microphones. Williams proceeded, "I am here today to act as a surrogate for 8432 families throughout the commonwealth of Massachusetts... they're unanimous in that they are indicating to me that they are tired as hell and they don't want to take it anymore." The public erupted...