Word: playground
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...claim to be useful.”A SMASHING SUCCESSThe red crane-like structure from which Ross fell is a primary example of the concept of usable—but not necessarily useful—art. Combining concepts of physics and simple machines to re-interpret a reliable playground staple, “Leverage,” is an asymmetrical ten-person seesaw. Due to its configuration, one person is able to counterbalance the weight of nine others. Reyes asserts that multiple readings are possible for such a piece.“You could say it is inequity, or hierarchy...
...Regal audience loved the movie, applauding vigorously at the end and chattering happily on the escalators that led them out of the theater and onto the city street at 2 a.m. New York used to scare people; once it was its own horror movie. Now it's just a playground, where the coolest, most scariest rides are in the plexes. People go inside to have a game played on them...
...Attleboro ban drew instant criticism--and not just from playground libertarians and young players. "It's not the right route to take," says Charlene Burgenson, executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, who believes tag is "exactly the type of activity that is appropriate at recess." It won't harm kids "physically or psychologically," she says, and argues that the exercise could even help, given the rising rates of obesity among young people...
However, it didn’t ring of condescension but served as a common recognition of something amusing. Everyone was truly laughing with the debater, and not at him. And in the great playground of collegiate political debate, maybe that’s the best we can hope...
...Festival and a surefire bet in this year’s Oscar race, this film is anything but childish. Kate Winslet stars as a desperate housewife, Sarah Pierce, who feels misunderstood by other stay-at-home moms, her husband, and even her daughter. One hot summer day at the playground, the moms fawn over the lone stay-at-home dad—Patrick Wilson, best known for his role as a closeted Mormon in HBO’s “Angels in America”—whom they have dubbed “The Prom King?...