Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...construction of a 2000 car garage to be covered with a landscaped garden. The low-rise units will approximate living conditions which the hospital extension will destroy, while income from space leased in the garage will revert to the tenant developers. Tennis courts, a swimming pool, and several playground areas are also slated for construction...
Though puns may be used to political advantage-or disadvantage-punning has traditionally been more the farm of the artist than the playground of the politician. By punning, which probably derives from the Italian puntiglio (fine point), the writer grows ideas as well as wit. Aristophanes punned, with scatological exuberance, and so did Homer and Cicero. What was occasional in the classicists was fecund nature to Shakespeare. Because he had to play to the galleries, his plays were par for the coarse, brimming with such verbal pratfalls as "Discharge yourself of our company, Pistol." But Shakespeare could also buff...
...habitation except by the memories of those De Sica has brought to life and led to death. Like Micol's breasts seen through the wet veil of her drenched tennis shirt, De Sica's method is one of powerful suggestiveness. A tennis court is a concentration camp is a playground for whatever mental visions the director's varying ideas project onto the screens of his audience's mind...
...family that has learned to live with the plan is that of Lawyer Donald Ungar, who lives in the middle-class district of West Portal. Ungar's son Kenneth now spends 15 to 20 minutes traveling to a 44-year-old school in a heavily Spanish-speaking area. Its playground is perpetually littered with broken glass. "We'd talk about that school this summer and tears would literally roll down my face." says Carol Ungar. "But my husband feels very strongly about integration. He'd say, 'Look, we believe in it. Let's give...
Between $100,000 and $125,000 will be spent on the playground. According to Moulton, the amount was set to correspond to the $100,000 that the City recommended for improving Corporal Burns in its 1971-72 Capital Improvement Program...