Word: colorfast
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...Manhattan's Toy Guidance Council) and are spending $15 million on TV advertising. However, discount selling may shrink the profits of many dealers who cut prices as Christmas nears. Among the most-asked-for items that will find their way beneath many a seven-foot vinyl (flame-resistant, colorfast, $9.98) Christmas tree this season...
When it comes to the why rather than the how of his hero-villain, fledgling Novelist Stone is content with a pat childhood trauma. His portrait of a demagogue is colorful but not colorfast: character blurs into caricature, sentiment into soap opera, speech into speeches. But whatever his novel's shortcomings, Author Stone will doubtless enjoy his forthcoming reign as the undergraduate lion of Harvard Yard...
...from the place city rabbits normally come from-"a toy village enclosed by chicken wire and located in Section B, on the sixth floor of a big New York department store." Winthrop is first reduced from $2.98 to $1.78 because he proves not to be "colorfast, washable and docile"; then he finds himself out on his ear in the harsh world of Central Park, where he undergoes such painful experiences as being chased by a whippet and overhearing a chat between two humans on how to cook hasenpfeffer. Winthrop chums up with other park animals, and together they create...