Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three months and already No. 5 on the Toy Hit Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo toys, and it sure is sleeker than G.I. Joe. It is the kind of game that could turn into a phenomenon...
Football became a much bigger deal after his junior year. As he explains, he himself was "getting bigger"--he weighed close to 250 pounds. Wooster's would-be attorney began to attract some national football attention...
...very pleased with the 61-ft. 4 1/2-in.," Russell said. "The coach was pleased about it and so was I--it was a personal best. I'm glad it came early in the season. There is always room for improvement. By the time the bigger meets come around the whole team will be refined and ready to peak at those meets...
...This is much, much bigger. It's bigger than all of us," he said, his words tumbling over each other. "We tried private war already--but like Newsweek said, too many losers and misfits were getting into it. The Freedom Fight is no place for every Joe Blow who subscribes to Soldier of Fortune. What we really need is real men and big money. You might not agree with him, but the Ayatollah is a real man. Now that source is dried up, we need a new supplier...
Along the avenue, portals framed in warm black terrazzo give access to the internal galleries. Here, Aulenti has done marvels with adjustment of scale to image. Each space suits its contents, whether one is looking at Daumier's 36 clay caricature heads of the Celebrites du Juste- Milieu, no bigger than grenades and as lethal, whose passionate violations of the human face would so deeply affect Giacometti a century later, or at the large, suave, marmoreal forms of Ingres and early neoclassical Jean-Leon Gerome...