Word: schoolyard
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...This week, he called the Massachusetts Turnpike chairman “fat” while labeling a former state official a “midget.” In articles vilifying Democrats, Carr takes quotes out of contexts and appeals to his readers’ worst instincts like a schoolyard bully...
What they left behind were the five- and six-story apartment houses that still flank the Bronx's Mosholu Parkway, as do a sprawling park and P.S. 80. In the '30s cars were few, and the street was as much a playground as were the park and schoolyard. "For stickball, we'd break off broom handles, then use sewer covers as bases," recalls Leonard (Lenny) Lauren, today a consultant to his younger brother, fashion icon Ralph Lauren. "The foul lines were the cars on both sides of the street...
They'd meet in the schoolyard, candy stores, pool halls and restaurants. "We weren't really a gang," says Greenberg. "We didn't all go at the same time to the same places. You went down to the schoolyard, and three other guys were there. The next day, there were five different guys...
That celebration in turn served as a dress rehearsal for their 70th birthday party, which was filmed for the documentary. Shapiro and West organized both weekend reunions, which featured gatherings at their homes and assorted childhood games re-created at a Los Angeles schoolyard rented for that purpose. Wives joined their husbands for meals and mingling but moved to the sidelines as the men played stickball, basketball and touch football. In their navy Bronx Boys T shirts and with their once dark hair gray or nearly gone, the men remained competitive, disagreeing loudly over fouls. Here, though, a player scoring...
Becoming boys again as they describe their first kisses, crushes on schoolteachers and schoolyard games, they vividly retell stories like how Greenberg took apart a TV set so it would fit through a small doorway and then reassembled it on the other side...