Word: parkes
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...from it. Could El Nino be the culprit, wafting dozens of puny pop-ups into the far bleachers? Jim Kaat thinks so. "This spring we've had the wind blowing out," observes the former 20-game winner, now an announcer for the White Sox. "Wrigley Field in Chicago, Fenway Park in Boston used to be pitchers' parks in April. This year they weren...
...Kennedy School of Government, 489students will receive master's or doctoral degreesin public administration and public policy.Graduates will get their diplomas in John F.Kennedy Park...
Boston isn't the biggest city in America--last time I checked, it comes in seventh. It's big enough to make life interesting, yet small enough that you bump into friends at restaurants and in the park; it's hard to be anonymous here. The city is malleable enough to change under almost anyone's influence. When artists asked for cheap living space, the city gave them a neighborhood--cheap lofts in the Leather District rezoned for their convenience. When it became clear that Boston was segregated into isolated, misunderstood communities, the city planned a new T line, linking...
Michael K. Mayo '94 was associate chair of The Crimson. JP is Jamaica Plain. EB is East Boston. And "Townies" and "Parkies" come from Charlestown and Hyde Park, respectively...
...with the theme parks. Walt Disney's genius was to drain the boardwalk midway of its anarchy and menace. He smoothed and creamed and pureed it into a shamelessly sweet, hopelessly inauthentic 3-D movie set he called a theme park. His movies are Hans Christian Andersen pasteurized. His parks are Coney Island homogenized. In both he created the perfect entertainment for children...