Word: sandbox
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...happened yet, but we can dream, can't we? Sleek hardwood floors. Open, airy space. Bottles of pretty liquids set charmingly against soothing, light wood shelves. You can almost smell the construct-your-own-scent counter from the street. For all appearances, this new boutique is to be a sandbox for the stressed yuppie...
...Uphoff's conception, the King of Navarre and his friends are a group of prep school boys who want to be alone with their books and toys. They cavort on a fantastical playground that comes complete with a swing, a seesaw, a sandbox, a basketball hoop and, of course, an electric train set. The visiting Princess of France and her ladies in waiting find the men's actions, particularly their vow not to see women, highly amusing. Needless to say, the men immediately fall in love with the women and decide to forget their vows and begin wooing. Accompanied...
Some have critters on them -- a snail crawling round the base, or a worried- looking frog leaning backward; one piece, Blind Sea Turtle Cup, 1968, is borne on the back of a turtle laboriously crawling its way across a sandbox. Yet curiously enough, they look mysterious rather than cute. Victorian potters like Mintons produced a plethora of whimsical, curate's-joke animal majolica, laden with cows and sheep and bees and other homely creatures; the surface of earlier French Palissy ware was encrusted with reptiles and insects to the point where the plate became an unusable plaque...
...sent a powerful message: here at last was a leader who was blunt, not glib; passionate, not packaged, with the carriage of a man of courage and principle. Even then, it was hard to imagine that he would willingly trade the high challenges of the Saudi desert for the sandbox that is American politics...
...Soon as they come around, everybody's got to go. They've got to have their own little spot," local resident Richard Andrews said, as his young son played in a nearby sandbox...