Word: craniums
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...Mart, and many are shutting down. Since last season's brutal price war--led by Wal-Mart--KB Toys and FAO Schwarz have closed roughly 600 stores between them. Toys are increasingly merchandised as impulse items at drugstores, supermarkets and even coffee shops. Starbucks has sold loads of the Cranium board game. KB, operating under bankruptcy protection, says it will close 164 of its remaining 820 stores in January. FAO now consists of just two stores and a luxury catalog hawking, uh, toys like a tyke-size Mercedes convertible--a bargain at $15,000 (top speed: 15 m.p.h...
...cartoonist delves so eagerly into the contents of his compromised cranium, he loses all sense of perspective. He seems to have no interest in the anguish of others--the actual victims, for example--or in why the attacks occurred. When he describes himself as "equally terrorized" by al-Qaeda and by his own government, he's giving us an equation that just doesn't balance. Yes, there are serious civil rights issues in the U.S. today, but Spiegelman personally has little cause to fear a dirty-bomb attack from Tom Ridge. And if his grasp of the problem is shaky...
...cartoonist delves so eagerly into the contents of his compromised cranium, he loses all sense of perspective. He seems to have no interest in the anguish of others--the actual victims, for example--or in why the attacks occurred. When he describes himself as "equally terrorized" by al-Qaeda and by his own government, he's giving us an equation that just doesn't balance. Yes, there are serious civil rights issues in the U.S. today, but Spiegelman personally has little cause to fear a dirty-bomb attack from Tom Ridge. And if his grasp of the problem is shaky...
...Then in 1955 Chicago housewife Eppie Lederer took over the syndicated Ann Landers column from a recently deceased nurse who had been doling out tabloid therapy under that pseudonym. With witty, blunt pointers ("A father who diapers his daughter at the age of 12 has a geranium in his cranium"), a heartfelt respect for her readers and a willingness to change her mind, she earned an ardent following of 90 million readers. Dubbed the country's most influential woman by a World Almanac poll in 1978, Lederer cherished her ability to help and read several hundred letters a day while...
...Rose’s cranium has now joined his back and Ryan Fitzpatrick’s elbow as areas of concern among Harvard signal-callers...