Word: schoolyard
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...Among his first duties was attempting to quell a simmering dispute between clans controlling two villages. A schoolyard brawl that had ended with a student's ear being hacked off had escalated into a local war. "I told the party secretary to stop this, but he was corrupt and didn't handle it," Liang says...
Yuki tried to instill discipline in his son, but Apolo was a tough nut. He chewed rocks in the schoolyard, hung out with a dangerous crowd in his early teens and made an art of defying his father. "I was rough. If my dad said yes, I said no. That's the way it was for years...
...defending terrorists,” he said, but pointed out that “Muslims don’t want Western influences. The United States has acted like the schoolyard bully in trying to force its culture on them...
...melancholy, a little darkness, which I think is really vital to the story." Some of the movie's most poetic moments come from Kloves' head: after his kindly headmaster, Dumbledore, gives Harry a moving lecture about letting go of his troubled past, the boy strolls out to the schoolyard and watches his pet owl, Hedwig, take a slow, symbolic flight. "Those are the moments that move you and elevate the movie beyond being just sort of a highlights reel," says Kloves. Still, the filmmakers have stayed remarkably close to the novel. "Jo [Rowling] had a tremendous influence," says Heyman...
...Canto-pop starmakers who package and micromanage saccharin-sweet crooners as carefully as Madison Avenue launches a new line of soap. Warning labels decree their albums may not be distributed, circulated, sold, rented, given, lent, shown, played or projected to anyone under the age of 18. Even LMF's schoolyard acronym grates on Hong Kong's frantic, money-obsessed culture: lazy muthaf...