Word: schoolyard
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...party on the low-down, one you’d hide under the covers, but don’t expect it to stay there for long. While !!! is known for creating the 12 minute four-songs-in-one demi-epic “Me and Giuliani, Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story)” they have some less-than-wonderful lyrical turns, as in “Sweet Life,” where Nic brilliantly sings, “a-a-b-b, c-c-c-d, c-c-c-d.” Another taste...
...afternoon was the Filipino Tinikling piece. The group injected a strong burst of energy into “Cultural Rhythms” with their clashing ten-foot-long bamboo sticks, which some dancers beat against the stage while others jumped over and around them in moves reminiscent of schoolyard jump roping. The troupe proved versatile as well: As the beat of “Chicken Noodle Soup” blasted through the speakers, the dancers dropped their poles and put on sunglasses to begin a hip hop-inspired number. As the only group to represent Native American culture, the Harvard...
...support group, she attends allergy conferences and lobbies local and state governments to protect food-allergic kids in school. One parent in Mindlin's support group had to ask the principal to intervene when kids at her child's elementary school were bullying her son, chasing him around the schoolyard with peanut butter...
...What Thomas Stephenson Family Coach for Harvard Football Tim Murphy doesn’t realize—indeed, what the Thomas Stephenson family doesn’t even realize—is just how good Polhemus is. There is a schoolyard quality to his game that stems from a renegade attitude and an aversion to quarterback orthodoxy. Against a Harvard defense that must blitz constantly to cover up its atrocious secondary (111th in pass defense out of 116 teams in division I-AA), things will inevitably break down. When they do, Polhemus will elude the rush unlike any quarterback Harvard...
...wall weirdo watch. The problem is proportion. Strangers make up 7% of child molesters; the vast majority are family members. But you wouldn't know it from watching TV. When stranger predators are everywhere on TV, it suggests that they are everywhere in the real world: in your schoolyard, roaming your street, and--especially--climbing the DSL line into your kids' bedrooms as if it were an ivied trellis...