Why is it that for the smallest child, the height of pleasure lies in seeing the rules of the real world playfully subverted — the toy elephant made to fly, the playground tree made to talk — but as we grow older we find such pleasure in seeing rule-bound reality re-enacted onstage, in a book or in a dice baseball game?
The fourth quarter was almost over when bullets started flying across the playground.
Jack and Meg White announced the end of the band with a lightly pretentious statement on their website, accompanied by a picture of the pair in a playground, Meg flying girlishly through the air on a swing.
Most memorably, a class of slightly passive-aggressive elementary school students sent a copy of Judi Barrett's classic Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to HQ after a drone accidentally dropped a party-sized egg of baked ziti as it flew over their playground at recess.
Described as having the "energy of two teenagers - despite the fact that he remembers Spitfires flying over his own school playground - Stratton says he has no plans to retire from Lipson community college in Plymouth.
The 15-minute trip involves clambering over wheelie bins, scaling a high brick wall, squeezing between the bars of spike-tipped fences, dodging flying soccer balls in a school playground and navigating a neighbouring estate.
Simply the fear of "what could happen IF there is an insect flying around me" was enough to cause tantrums on the school playground.
Around and around the characters go, running up walls and flying from perch to perch, like wuxia warriors navigating a spinning parkour playground designed by M.C.
Everyone else has realized that they're not going to get a single inch of column space or a single soundbite clip on the evening news unless they embrace their inner Trump and let fly with the worst playground taunt they can think up.
For example, Bart puts Nelson in a triangle choke at the playground when the two are fighting, while Marge takes ou6t Englebrit with a flying armbar.
