Word: schoolyard
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Suddenly, I was playing field hockey on sprinkler-fed fields tended by legions of gardeners. I went to sleepovers in mansions, and attended sweet-sixteen parties that would have given Caligula a run for his money. Instead of getting chased around the schoolyard by pit bulls, I spent my afternoons at meetings for the various clubs I’d joined, or reading quietly beside one of the stained-glass windows. I graduated in a white gown, holding a basket of red roses...
Knapp spoke of her sister’s hunger as an “agent of denial” for family love she felt was withheld in childhood, while Harold said her multi-ethnic background led to painful schoolyard taunts...
...Jenkins feared his father so much that after cutting out of class early the in ninth grade, he asked his younger brother, recent Green Bay Packers signee Cullen Jenkins, to punch him in the face so it looked like the principal sent him home after a schoolyard brawl. Cullen refused, then heard strange sounds emanating from the bathroom - Kris was right-hooking himself in the eye. Since he couldn?t fully mutilate his face, Jenkins came clean to his dad. ?For once, he let Kris off easy,? Cullen says. ?It was just too damn funny to get mad about...
...defendant duo's message to the European Commission was blunt: Sorry, some of us are more equal than others, and don't slap us with a heavy fine just because we broke the stability pact. They won the day for the same reason that a schoolyard bully gets away with stealing lunch money: the others simply aren't strong enough to stop him. So Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted to suspend the pact and to withhold sanctions. The duo's defiance is reminiscent of the U.S. going to war against Iraq without a U.N. mandate...
Lethem, whose previous novel Motherless Brooklyn was named the “Book of the Year” by Esquire, is very engaged in his characters. This was clearly evident at the reading; he eagerly mimicked the dull hulk of a schoolyard bully; he let the squeak of a scared submissive jump from his lips. Clad in tight jeans, a bright yellow shirt and Costello glasses, Lethem was as colorful as his characters themselves...