Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imust admit that I am writing this with a divided heart. Part of me objects to it: the part that dreams about outer space, that as child turned my playroom into the bridge of a spaceship. In third grade, I even wrote a short science-fiction story about an astronaut who is sent to the far ends of the galaxy to investigate a mysterious alien message...
...going, it's not just an adventure; it's a trip. Anything from flowers to fire may pop out of the sunburnt-orange floorboards. A stormy sea comes to roiling life with just a tilted spar and a few sprawling actors. By the end, the Arena has become a playroom filled with spritely wonder...
Over the remainder of her pregnancy, she attended group meetings in the hospital's adolescent playroom, sitting in a circle with other participants, while dietitians, social workers and even an aerobics instructor gave brief presentations and then opened the floor to 1 1/2 hours of lively discussion. Recovering addicts lectured on staying straight. A midwife running the parenting session gave step-by-step instruction on how to dress a child in a snowsuit to 30 young women, many of whom had never had a snowsuit of their own. "I learned how to feed my children -- how to fix a healthy...
...exploits that passive dark side: that moment, just after your mom shuts off the lights, when a T. rex leaps out of its wall poster and into your fevered R.E.M.s. And Last Action Hero taps the aggressive impulse: to engineer the apocalyptic collision of every toy car in the playroom. The two films may talk the parenting game, but what they show is the Big Scare and the Big Crash...
...prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she has been studying for a high school-equivalency diploma. An expected favorable ruling by the judge, perhaps this week, would allow Helmsley to rejoin her ailing billionaire husband Harry and travel, presumably by limousine, to perform 750 hours of community service as a playroom assistant or clerk at a nearby health center...