Word: playground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Boylston St. in downtown Boston, would be closing its tiny-handprint-streaked doors for good. After spotting numerous bargain hunters stumbling through the streets of Boston with hefty FAO bags overflowing with their plunder, FM donned its riot gear to investigate the chaotic consumerism at this childhood playground. The store hummed with activity—desperate customers cleared the shelves of goods as if preparing for a hurricane or a nuclear war that would leave them trapped in basements with only bottled water and board games for sustenance. Kids wandered, with open mouths and eyes a-twinklin’, throughout...
...girls in school uniforms being sexual. It's very irresponsible." It's not dirty old men that buy their CDs though; it's usually other, often younger, girls. Lisa Smosarski, editor of teen-pop magazine Smash Hits, says, "Teenagers will understand the video was made to shock and create playground talk: 'Oh my God. Have you seen that video where those girls snog? You've got to see it!' Record companies need to create that kind of buzz to get their video played and the song on people's minds." Despite the apparent manipulation, Tatu seem unconcerned by the fuss...
...more salient and compelling than that of TV role models,” Vaux wrote. “Buffy may be cooler than the leader of the cheerleaders at your school. But Buffy is much less likely to make fun of you in front of your peers on the playground...
...through the valleys and mountains of the tiny Himalayan kingdom, the road may be better acquainted with cattle than automobiles. At dawn and long after dusk, its rutted asphalt rings with the chatter of schoolchildren traveling hours by foot for their daily lessons. By noon, the highway is a playground for rambunctious monkeys, a drying rack for chilies, and?by the grace of an occasional car or truck?an ingenious tool for flattening bamboo. Waters from holy streams course alongside it, and towering stands of prayer flags cover it with a tracery of spiny shadows in the low light...
...took an accounting job at Arthur Andersen and, after a stint in the Houston office, put in for a transfer to New York City. There she developed a taste for summers in the Hamptons, playground to Manhattan's elite, and winters swimming with stingrays in the Caribbean. Before long, she sounded like any other perpetually irritated New Yorker, haranguing cabdrivers who took the long way home to her small Upper East Side apartment. "New York kind of toughens you up for people doing the right thing," she says. "It almost makes you call bulls___ faster...