Word: strollers
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...more often than not unsettling, it's fascinating to watch Liza Lim attempt to calm her crying three-year-old son Raphael. "Do you want me to wheel you out?" she asks him at the headquarters of the Sydney Symphony, where Lim is composer in residence. She moves his stroller around the conference table, but still he whimpers. "Would you like some water?" Instead, Raphael calls out for his father, Daryl Buckley, who is artistic director of the new-music elision Ensemble, based at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. "You want a Spiderman lolly?" Lim flourishes the dispenser from...
Many an expectant mother has embarked excitedly on her first expedition to a baby-gear emporium only to break out in a sweat at the overwhelming array of must-have products. Blinded by brightly colored plastic, dazed by dozens of strollers and high chairs and cribs, she would be excused for running from the store and hoping for hand-me-downs. Fast forward just a few months, though, and the same mom can be found expounding on the design flaws of her stroller, wishing her diaper bag had a couple more pockets and surfing the Internet for the latest...
...tween” girls snapping their gum and flopping their wrists while shimmying their pink-skirted boyish hips from side to side; the thirty-something couple holding up five shades of blue “onesies” for the infant drooling in the stroller; and my Savta, still mesmerized after all these years by the marble floors and bright lights of this American shopping mall...
Particularly tall parents sick of stooping as they push their toddlers about town will appreciate the new Xplory. Its push bar can be positioned nearly 4 ft. off the ground, and the seat can be raised high to keep the child above the fray. This stroller can be adjusted to accommodate passengers from a newborn to a 40-lb. preschooler; a special latch turns it into a two-wheeler for negotiating stairs. Bonus feature: a zippered sack for groceries...
...recently released by the Bush campaign is set somewhere in suburbia, featuring a mother jogging with a stroller and a father with his minivan; the voiceover, which sounds like it’s straight out of a scary movie, drones “History’s lesson: Strength builds peace. Weakness invites those who would do us harm.” Mixing images of Middle America with threats of imminent terrorist attacks if Kerry is elected—on account of his enigmatic “weakness”—is a detestable ploy to get voters...