"We've been waiting for Amazon to play ball with libraries since they came out with the Kindle".
Happily, in most American towns, public facilities like museums and ball fields, libraries and playgrounds, are open to all.
"We've been waiting for Amazon to play ball with libraries since they came out with the Kindle," Ms. Newman said.
The Canal Zone gave them all the comforts of home, resembling a modern-day gated community, with schools, churches, servants, ball fields, libraries and Y.M.C.A.'s.
But the dismay at the major increase in prices is tempered by a sort of desperate gratefulness that the publisher is willing to play ball with libraries at all.
That's a big reason why airports, ball parks, libraries and other public places are installing more and more defibrillators.
For the Pences, this includes painting the dining room matte blue to match existing chair fabric chosen by Marilyn Quayle, hanging a few Karen Pence watercolors and adding a crystal ball to the library coffee table.
Back at the station, the Aso Boy train (asobouyo means "let's play") seemed to have been designed with children in mind, with its Kuro-the-dog logo and special carriage featuring white-leather, child-only seats, a wooden ball pool and library.
But in wealthy communities across the New York region, the pitched battles are now over ball fields and libraries, school buildings, churches and housing for the elderly -- projects once seen as pillars of an upright community.
Marx's wit sparkles in unexpected places: one store's maternity department featured a mural of birds and bees; he "planted" plaster cactuses in a drinking club founded during Prohibition and put stately obelisks topped by marble balls on the library mantel of a billiard equipment tycoon.
