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Word: schoolyard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body is buffed enough for a macho role, but the Academy Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling his effects, including a furry toy bunny he bought for the daughter he's never seen. "Put the bunny back in the box," he whispers with slow righteousness--and he flashes the Stare That Kills. When the thug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CAGED HEAT | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...rack. Gilkey knows that the body is a deft comic instrument, even as the charming Chinese girls who do the "diabolos" routine (spinning a toy on a string while prancing nonstop in short skirts and Tin Woodman hats) know how to make this precision aerobic workout seem like schoolyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: FORGIVE THE MIMES | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...playground, in any nursery school, Brittany Abshire and West Redington would blend in perfectly with the other kids and the schoolyard clamor. Brittany, 2 1/2, is a chubby, mischievous chatterbox, and West, who turned one in August, is a grinning, inquisitive toddler who loves clambering up steps and the back of the sofa. As far as the world can see, there is nothing special about either of them. Wonderfully ordinary though they may be, however, young West and Brittany were conceived under extraordinary circumstances by parents who could barely believe the feat was possible. Just five years ago, in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO COAX NEW LIFE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...Leaky Acres Groundwater Recharge Facility, where the President and his entourage can run undisturbed. Their path will take Clinton past a growing gaggle of children and teachers at the Viking Elementary School. They are shouting for the President to come by. But the jogging path and the schoolyard are separated by a chasm of tight security: two cyclone fences, a four-lane highway and a water-filled ditch 15 ft. wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL CLINTON, FROM ONLY SLIGHTLY CLOSER RANGE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...such a disciplinary tool only works if it is taken seriously and unequivocally executed universally: complete silence, for a complete minute. Students would not even be allowed to clean their guns or sharpen their knives until 60 seconds have elapsed. At that point, usual classes and schoolyard violence would be allowed to resume...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Politics of Silence | 7/9/1996 | See Source »

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