Word: cubed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few years ago, when toy companies were smaller, their financial health was notoriously erratic because they rode up and down with the latest fads. Example: Rubik's Cube, which lasted only one season, 1981-82. Now the toy firms want to grow large enough so that they can take part in several trends at once and get a smoother ride. Hasbro, Mattel and Coleco, the No. 3 toymaker, will account for about 35% of this year's industry revenues, compared with less than 15% five years ago. But these big firms now compete with a manic rivalry that...
Last week's Walter Mondale ("We will win") Award for prediction inaccuracy goes to me, the only member of The Crimson Sports Cube who did not correctly predict every game last Saturday...
Incidentally, Dolby and the Clinton crew combine on a 12-incher entitled MAY THE CUBE BE WITH YOU, from Dolby's upcoming Brit-funk LP. The song reminds us that Dolby's mindless career since "Blinded Me With Science" can still be salvaged. He just took the wrong road when it diverged in the ol' yellow wood...
...seriously-folks, the best thing about The Cube is the company Dolby keeps, not his natty nuttiness. The funk on this song is slow and smooth, like honey over gravel, eased by Clinton sidemen Dennis Chambers and Rodney Curtis, spiced by the Brecker Brothers' smart horn playing, and sassy, improvised background vocals by Lene Lovitch and George Clinton...
Last week, four of the Cube selectors went 5-2. President Jeff Zucker, staff writer Bob Cunha, and I penned in the same selections for the second week in a row, tying for first place with one of our guest selectors...