Word: playground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Carriage. Eventually, five eight-year-olds claimed the car as their private playground, crawling in and out of it and smashing the windows. One of the last visitors was a middle-aged man in a camel's hair coat and matching hat, pushing a baby in a carriage. He stopped, rummaged through the trunk, took out an unidentifiable part, put it in the baby carriage, and wheeled...
...Rich. It is not only this cultural confrontation that makes Morocco a favorite winter playground for the rich. It is also the vistas, the warm climate (daytime temperatures rarely dip below 80° except in the mountains and on the coast) and the languid, inshallah ("as God wills") pace of life. "It's all very exotic," says Paris Couturier Yves St. Laurent, who has purchased a tiny villa in Marrakesh. "Here I don't work at all, or even think. This is my refuge from the world...
When Danny and his friends wanted to play touch football, dad's chauffeur would drive them to the playground in a long, shiny automobile. That was fun, but for Danny the greatest fun of all was the idea of some day having a foot ball team of his very own, Why? As Danny once told a friend: "Isn't it the dream of every American boy to own a football team?" For Danny, at least, it was. So, in 1941, when he was 28 years old, he went out and bought himself a team named the Rams...
Suddenly, it was no longer fun and games. Instead it had become a sad spectacle. It was, in fact, more like a bunch of big kids having a spat on the playground. Little Danny snitched that Georgie was hiring players without consulting him and with no regard for the team's budget. Georgie tattled that Danny was never around to consult. Danny claimed that Georgie demanded to be named general manager and was guilty of such naughty behavior as sending an assistant to spy on another team. Georgie said that he "never asked for anything for myself, only...
...Kill Baby Kill). In the tradition of Edgar G. Ulmer and the more outlandishly-scripted Charbol melodramas, Bava films wretched nonsense with great style, color, and originality. Don't attempt to inject meaning into this tale of a Super-thief and his sexy girlfriend who inhabit a sumptuous underwater playground which makes Dr. No's look like Rindge Tech. It doesn't matter: film-making as slick and out-landish as Bava's is quite infectious, and Danger: Diabolik proved one of the few pure pleasures...