Word: playground
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...hero of Little Children, to the extent that it has one, is Sarah, a woman with a master's degree who finds herself at the age of thirtysomething watching her 3 year-old daughter frolic in a manicured playground, surrounded by a coven of fellow mothers who are capable of discussing only "the eating, sleeping, and defecating habits of their offspring, the merits of certain local nursery schools, and the difficulty of sticking to an exercise routine." For fun, she fantasizes about the host of Blue's Clues. Ouch. Todd, the iceberg to Sarah's Titanic, is a genial...
...venue as they haul equipment onto the stage with the help of their roadies. A publicist comes by with an allowance for this time: ten dollars each for use at the bar. A call goes up for some take-out Thai food. There is no lavish backstage playground for these musicians. Members of Stereolab periodically emerge from backstage to check the scene...
Lowell volunteers will again venture to the site tomorrow and Sunday to continue construction on 22 units of low-income housing, a commercial area and a public playground...
...their thing on the elongated runway, while a large projection screen in the background magnifies each person up to twelve times their normal size. With a planning staff of about twenty-five people and over $2,500 spent on lighting alone, Ardrey calls Eleganza a “creative playground for those without a voice...
...increase the number of troops in Iraq. The relative public equanimity gives the Bush Administration precious time to try to get things right. Foreign policy luminaries from both parties say a precipitous U.S. withdrawal would cripple American credibility, doom reform in the Arab world and turn Iraq into a playground for terrorists and the armies of neighboring states like Iran and Syria. "We can't afford to have a failed state there," says Nancy Stetson, a foreign policy adviser to Kerry. "If we walk away, the place could implode...