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Take Gregory, Big Bad Vampire Bat as an example. Designed for a slightly older crowd (over five), Greg features the usual--flapping wing action and such. But read closely: "press his back," the box advises. And then? You can "see 'blood' flow in chest...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Every Child a Deity | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

...doing imitations. "I became suddenly a star seen in the third person, even to myself," she said. "It didn't frighten me. I got fun out of being a legend and an institution." During World War II, her name was on every soldier's lips, and inflatable chest life preservers were known as Mae Wests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: She Was What She Was | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...suprised that none of them are swimming. Life lines mark out the "legal swimming area" in which the water is never more than chest deep. Only a few of the more adventurous men actually swim; most cling to floats or the lines and splash about. Our swimming draws stares; the lifeguards warn us that it is dangerous to go out too deep and then asks us if we have any Taiwanese girlfriends yet. He speaks only the native Taiwanese language and very little English so our conversation is stilted, but he does manage to tell us that native Taiwanese swim...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: More Than One Great Wall | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...affects a quest. It is divided among three distinct, sequential sections that draw one from room to room, back in time from Alexander comic strips and a Daumier cartoon to a final, wine-dark chamber where a wreath of gold leaves and acorns hangs over a gold larnax, or chest, in which Philip II's bones might have lain. The tomb at Vergina in which these treasures were discovered was unearthed in 1977 by Greek Archaeologist Manolis Andronikos. It may not actually be Philip's, but it is pleasant to think it is. In any case, Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Alexander Takes Washington | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...revolver fired too close to his ear while he filmed a movie in the 1930s. He also has an arthritic right thumb, and suffers from hay fever. Reagan rides and uses an exercise wheel regularly. According to his doctor, the wheel has contributed to "his upper torso and chest muscles [being] really well preserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fit for the Presidency? | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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