Word: playground
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...very disappointed that "The Strip is Back!" depicted Las Vegas as a sexy, sinful playground for adults [July 26]. I have been to the city on many occasions with my husband and young children. Las Vegas is an elegant and entertaining city of great hotels and restaurants, wonderful shows and child-friendly arcades. But the pictures of strip clubs in your story were off-putting. You even made the Mandalay Bay's casino look seedy and cheap. What did you intend to do, keep middle-class people from visiting? MONICA STEVENS Farmington, Mich...
...PLAYGROUND: Sizzling times with new clubs, shows and chefs...
...Antonio blasts back that it's 11:30 a.m. Paula Rodriguez is asked to whistle to her twin Mirta: "Have you seen my glasses?" Mirta silbos back: "You're wearing them." To the uninitiated, it's all trill and squawk, requiring translation into Spanish by Darias. Later in the playground, Maria whistles to a boy called Luis. After he gives her the fuio acknowledgment she tells him to come and shake a visitor's hand. Luis does so. Teacher Darias explains that coverage depends on topography, wind and the whistler's lungs: "In a valley, the Silbo can be heard...
...stakes of our discourse, I would suggest, should be cherished, rather than lamented. We have an ideological playground where we can organize, write, debate, protest—even physically invade other peoples’ office space—with minuscule effect and correspondingly miniscule consequences. The result is a culture that encourages us to form and express cogent arguments and opinions, to interpret the world in a productive and reflective manner—and to do so in an environment where fear of failure discourages no one from participating...
...foot catwalk specifically designed for the production. The show’s organizers, student theater group BlackCAST, bypassed the typical runway venues in favor of a surround-sound multi-sensory experience of movement, expression and talent, creating what one crew member described as “a virtual playground...