Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooks' comedy career began on the schoolyard circuit-a bright, bookish, undersized Brooklyn kid who learned fast that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
...Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle, and here is one of them with fear in his heart and swamp water in his ears, lying at the bottom of a mucky hole and spilling out his guilt to McGee...
...mother, "I hardly saw Annemie during the day. She even skipped breakfast to make a few runs before school began." She paid at best only minimal attention to her studies during her nine years of schooling, much preferring to test, and often beat the boys in climbing, skiing, even schoolyard brawling...
...After being hit in a schoolyard fight, Kelly Niles complained of a headache. But after an examination by the emergency room staff at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital, he was sent home by Pediatrician David Haskin. Hours later, Kelly was rushed back to the hospital, too late. Clotting blood from an artery severed by a skull fracture had put too much pressure on his brain stem. He was permanently paralyzed from the neck down and was also left mute. His IQ of 140 was not seriously affected, and he now communicates by flicking his eyes-left...
...Brooklyn, every alley has a basket and a waiting line of eager cagers. Kids strut around in Converse sneakers with weights on their ankles, trying to develop leg muscles. Adolescence is the crisis period, with fearful 13-year olds marking their height progress on the schoolyard wall each...