Word: chomped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that operates the doll's teeth. Although it has not issued a recall, the commission says it will continue to investigate some three dozen complaints that the dolls have chewed on little girls? hair and fingers, mistaking children for the fake carrots and french fries they were designed to chomp. No serious injuries have been reported -- yet. Most surprising are mothers like Diane McMasters of Campbell, Ohio, who is allowing her four-year-old daughter Ariana to keep the doll that started chewing on her a few weeks ago, and stopped only when Mrs. McMasters chopped off a hank...
...families like the Barrys who are in need of an alternative, the answer may lie in one of entertainment's hottest new concepts: pint-size suburban parks that don't require a plane ride or two days of travel and don't take a $300 chomp out of Mom and Dad's paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend...
...atmospheric influence of co-producer Brian Eno, who also lends a hand on synthesizers, is audible throughout. Bono's vocals are electronically warped, the Edge's guitars chomp and snarl or dissolve into wavering pools of reverb. In Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car, a self-mockingly pompous classical overture gives way to a jittery, high-octane beat, frayed guitar riffs and ominously echoing pings that sound like sonar from a distressed nuclear...