Word: playground
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...opera that, since its 1934 premiere, has been embraced almost solely by devotees of the avant-garde. Skating atop Stein's nonsensical wordplay ("Once in a while and where and where around around is as sound and around"), Morris has created a heavenly playground full of beautiful saints who dance like angels. As always, he draws his main inspiration from the music. "It's so friendly!" Morris says of Thomson's score, a festively fractured reminiscence of the Sunday-school hymns of the composer's Missouri childhood. "It's not complicated, and it doesn't wear...
...price of free), the Big Five record labels are starting to look positively negligent. They might as well have taken all that precious copyrighted music they invested so much time and money in, and left it out on the curb with the recycling. In the language of the playground: finders keepers, losers weepers...
...safety as Yam falls below to be impaled and roasted. (Rule No. 1: at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire.) Piling impossible climax on incredible crescendo, the 5-min. scene plays like a war of the titans in a child's playground of Hell...
...Then things got really whiny. Bogdanos complained that in a previous session Brafman had called him "snotty." Said Bogdanos: "If he draws first blood... " The judge responded: "It's not the playground." But it was too late. It was the playground. And the spectators were twittering with laughter. After things settled down, the jury was brought back in and Brafman continued his cross-examination. Fenderson held to his story that he saw Combs with a gun on the night of the shootings, but he was unclear on details. He said that he saw Combs pull up his "Sean John" sweat...
...children limit their use of TV, videos and electronic games. After a six-month experiment, researchers report that children who reduced their TV time to seven hours a week and stuck to less-violent videos and games were half as likely as their peers to engage in bellicose playground behavior like taunting and teasing. The most combative kids at the start of the study showed the most behavioral improvement...