Word: schoolyard
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...threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot him and his family." Ahmed Ali still shudders at the memory of seeing people massacred by troops, their bodies left to rot in a schoolyard until dogs came to eat them...
...That one was picked up by the hair by an Iraqi soldier -- he was still holding his soccer ball -- and shot in the head in front of the other kids." Some of Mike's friends had to cut down seven young Kuwaiti girls who had been hanged in a schoolyard after having been raped. There are several hundred women awaiting abortions, says a doctor at Mubarak al-Kabir Hospital. All were victims of gang rape...
...while we're at it: What did the Mama Pajama see Julio and his friend doing down by the schoolyard? How come we can call you Al? And in this new song The Obvious Child, what is the cross doing in the ball park...
...self-reflection -- self-immersion sometimes -- and knows how to undercut and play against it, as anyone who's seen him larking around on his producer pal Lorne Michaels' Saturday Night Live shows over the years can instantly attest. The man who wrote Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard and You Can Call Me Al and 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover knows how to have a good time with a lyric, but only Paul Simon could write a tune titled Have a Good Time that's a deliberately dippy paean to incidental ennui and spiritual indifference...
Wideman is best when he is most personal: a description of a schoolyard basketball game, a grieving meditation after a telephone call from a son in prison. Or this bitter college recollection about feeling as if he were in a test tube from an uncertain liberal experiment: "I was walking down the street with this cute little white coed, thinking we're minding our business, strolling to the cafeteria for a cup of coffee, and blam. Run right dead into the glass wall." To Wideman, the stares seemed to say "Wait a minute, boy . . . You still in the tube, nigger...