Word: playground
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...each weekday morning, the asphalt playground of Franklin Elementary School in Oakland swarms with some 900 boys and girls shooting baskets, playing tetherball and skipping rope. This large number of children are not at Franklin for a summer recreation outing. They are at morning recess in Franklin's year-round school, one of three such programs in the Oakland unified school district, and one of 394 year-round education projects that are nourishing at scattered locations in schools across the country...
...Devil in Red Lake " [April 4] said, "Jeff Weise lost his parents but had close friends. So why did he shoot and kill his granddad and eight others?" He did it because he had access to guns. Without the guns, his difficulties might have ended in a playground fight. Weise's admiration for Hitler might have faded, or, in the best of scenarios, it might have been addressed by counseling. Too many fights--between husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings--wind up with someone dead rather than with just dishes thrown and doors slammed. So long as weapons...
...Tommy and Melissa’s teenage romance is very successful; it achieves a level of human emotion that the rest of the film lacks. There are no specific scenes that truly encapsulate this tone; rather, the brief touches of subtle emotion—furtive glances across the playground, an awkward conversation overlooking Central Park, a first kiss—are what make this small portion of the film so good. Duchovny’s camera captures these brief encounters as quick snapshots of isolated emotion that, strung together, approach the sublime...
...Facilities: Finest rooftop playground...
...about 7 in the evening when I came to. It had taken me 2½ hours to get from the playground to the Miyuki Bridge, and this was eight or nine hours later, so I had lain unconscious for a very long time. The warehouse at Ujina ordinarily was used to store food for the soldiers. Now it stored people, who sat dazed with their backs to the walls. The first thing I saw on coming to was a soldier's face looking into mine. He gave me an affectionate pat on the head. Perhaps it was he who removed...