Word: playground
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...Settling down in my hotel, I looked out at the swimming pool to see a few men standing around its entirely dry surface, laughing and occasionally pushing one another, as in a playground. Outside my window, cows were padding placidly past the five-star rooms, while wild dogs barked in the early light and a man hung lines of washing (including the shirt I'd just given in?) above a muddy wasteland. And though I couldn't know it yet, not far away, the first stirrings were beginning to be felt of the terrible bloodshed that erupted a few days...
...Almost since it opened in 1864, the Galle Face has been a Sri Lankan institution. It was a center of British colonial life and later the playground of the rich and famous passing through the island. Lest you forget its illustrious clientele, the hotel has a bronze plaque listing its celebrity guests, with names ranging from famous to infamous: John D. Rockefeller, Emperor Hirohito, Indira Gandhi, Imran Khan, Bo Derek, Carrie Fisher and Kurt Waldheim...
Across the street is the municipal William F. Smith Playground, where two parents push strollers past a play structure with red slides. An older woman sits on a bench overlooking the community basketball courts and baseball diamond, with her back turned toward the Harvard building across the street...
...spent her whole childhood in the Eliot Masters’ residence, from when she was born in 1972 until 1985. She is now an editor at Yale University Press. Like Bossert, she remembers the excitement of House life. “It was a huge playground in a lot of ways,” she says. “The Masters’ lodgings were enormous and we had wonderful times as children exploring the steam tunnels under the University and sneaking up into the tower at night.” But for Heimert, her parents’ responsibilities...
...kids on the playground would unconsciously play out the gender roles that have been set for them from the movies,” Fong says...