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...risky leap forward. Six months in the studio last summer and fall have produced something as welcome as it is unexpected: an Of Montreal that knows how to cut loose and get down convincingly, deploying a fleet of gleefully programmed sounds that would have been pure science fiction to sandbox-era Brian Wilson...
These aren’t the church basement sandbox and Lincoln Log preschools of our childhood memories. The world has changed since then, and nursery school programs with it. In fact, most are no longer called nursery school, but something staid and serious instead—something like “Pre-Primary Preparatory Education.” The rugs and water tables of yore have been replaced with desks, nap time with tests, and hugs and Ginger the pet bunny with grades and a stiff pat on the back. I doubt many of us could have survived such...
...this technique sandbox or Stanislavsky? "Children are natural Method actors," says Emily Mortimer, who is McElhone's mother in Frankie. "It's because there are no tricks at their disposal. The only thing they can do is what they do in life: to play and use their imaginations." The boy plays Frankie into a fully realized character, preternaturally alert to the emotions swirling around...
...city to city may look like aimless wandering. (She has moved six times since 1999. Her father calls her and her sister gypsies.) But Emerging Adulthood's Arnett--and Galantha--see it differently. To them, the period from 18 to 25 is a kind of sandbox, a chance to build castles and knock them down, experiment with different careers, knowing that none of it really counts. After all, this is a world of overwhelming choice: there are 40 kinds of coffee beans at Whole Foods Market, 205 channels on DirecTV, 15 million personal ads on Match.com and 800,000 jobs...
...fighting or sneaking into a hostile town at night. Wooing the governor's daughter now involves dancing the right steps at a society ball. Best of all, Pirates! (for PC; $49.99) still lets you play exactly the way you want to, turning the entire Caribbean into your own giant sandbox. It's the closest thing to a gamer's island paradise...