Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most remarkable about Sunday, Bloody Sunday from a film perspective is Schlesinger's sudden acquisition of taste and tact. The man who made New York City into a playground of straw men so that a pimp and a hustler could look like folk heroes here presents the first sequences which portray homosexuality and Jewish ethnicity without smirking at their subjects. Some affectation is still present: a wayward bedside TV set, which brings back bad memories of Sylvia Miles'; a sinuous pan up Elkin's body as seen by Alex through a shower curtain; postured bit-playing by effete types...
...that, as one of them said, "there is work to be done and people to do it." On its first project, the associates turned up unbidden at a South Side lot that had become a community dumping ground. They cleared off the garbage and erected a children's playground there, then sent the city a bill for $670.50 for their labors...
...tense deadlock continued for three days and into the weekend. While the impasse lasted, reported TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, the 55-acre prison compound in the lush and rolling countryside near Buffalo looked like the playground for some fantasy war game...
Wealthy Europeans and Americans built tens of thousands of fancy villas along the 200-mile coastline between Marseille and the Italian border, turning much of the Riviera into a private playground. To keep out trespassers, these "beach barons" erected high fences, stone walls and barbed wire, often patrolled by vicious guard dogs...
...cloverleaf for a new track and football field for the junior high school. When the cloverleaf recreational complex is completed, it will resemble a kind of interchange city. A 15-acre area will include an ice-skating rink, a recreation center, outdoor tennis and basketball courts, a playground, and fields for baseball, softball and football. Another seven acres are set aside for high school football and baseball. The remainder of the interchange will be turned into a 25-acre woodland with hiking trails and picnic tables. Five miles of underground electrical conduits will make it possible to install lighting anywhere...