Word: sandbox
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...biggest change in toy design theory since my sandbox days seems to be the downfall of the traditional board game. Gone are such dinosaurs as "Operation!" "Tiddly-Winks" and "Chutes and Ladders." Child World promotes only a few games, like "Scrabble," "Parcheesi" and "Trouble"; the first two are presented both in traditional form and in "deluxe editions." The yuppie fave "Scrabble Deluxe" features raised spaces which lock the letters in place, presumably so that your $1000 Lhasa Apso does not meander by and mess up the game. As much as I can tell, "Deluxe Parcheesi" appears to be a contradiction...
Unless you believe syllogism is gospel, you should be wondering whether the Soviet Union divestment movement is really anything more than a neat rhetorical ploy, a way of saying, "We're not going to play in your sandbox anymore, we'll make up our own game...
Diana spends as much time as she can with the children. She often plays with the boys in the morning in the walled garden at Kensington Palace, where there is a sandbox and a swing. Charles, who has less time, is far warmer with his children than his father was with him. (William calls him Daddy; Charles called his father Papa.) Recently Diana, concerned that she and Charles would be late for an appointment, found him in the bathtub with Wills (as William is known in the family), splashing about and having a jolly old time...
...pass for old), kicking up dust as the stars of a geezer's Porky's. But for the characters' wives and girlfriends (Gwen Verdon, Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton), the spectacle is bittersweet. They realize that at any age, men must be boys, and women must be their sandbox playmates or their strict mothers. Some genders will just never grow...
...makings of a sandbox brawl: "I saw it first." "Well he's my best friend." Unfortunately, the voices were not those of toddlers, but of Harvard and Boston officials squabbling over the upcoming visit of South Africa's Nobel Prize winning Bishop Desmond Tutu...