Word: playground
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This March, Spinowitz took Day back to the playground of the Hebrew School where they first met for a picnic dinner...
...those who like their vacations quiet and their luxury discreet, part of an island in the South China Sea can be rented by the week. Boayan Islet, just off Palawan Island, comes with a staff of six and a speedboat. Home is a palatial wooden bungalow on stilts, the playground a private lagoon, and there are any number of pristine snorkeling holes waiting to be discovered. And the cost? Less than the price of a five-star hotel, say the owners. Check out your very own fantasy isle at chinaseaisland.com...
...fruit. Joey pretended to pick the fruit off the page and eat it, offering me a bite. Again I flashed back to those evaluation forms: "Does your child engage in pretend/imaginative play?" Nate's idea of play is to drop sticks and small stones into a drain at the playground. He could do this for hours if we let him. Last week Joey took a long noodle from his bowl of soup, dragged it across the table and said, "Look, it's a train. There's the freight car." Then Nate took a noodle from his soup. He tossed...
...show offers some factoids about prairie life (makeup was considered immoral), but it's truly about 21st century society. The women adjust to an un-p.c. life of cooking and cleaning for their newly Marlboro-ized men. "The whole place is like a man's playground," one woman says. And a surprisingly moving epilogue follows the families' re-entry into mall-and-microwave life. Their conclusion--that we're alienated from our work and nature--is trite but hard earned. Does that mean they end up swearing off fast food and video games? Dream on, Pilgrim. --By James Poniewozik
...Glitter's stay in Cambodia is coming to an end. But the tragic truth is that his high-profile case is a reminder that for too many foreigners and Cambodians the country is a playground for people who prey on the young...