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King Zor, Glass's most expensive toy this year, is a terrifying-looking, three-foot plastic dinosaur. Six plastic "prehistoric rocks" are loaded into Zor's back. The child then fires a dart gun at a red target on the beast's tail; a bull's-eye causes Zor to lunge toward the nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better...
...part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists, he boiled the Ten Commandments to two: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade...
...than that ton of fun from television who in The Hustler scored as Minnesota Fats, a pool shark who looked like a whale with a carnation. In Gigot he scores again as Gigot, a Parisian janitor whose name means leg of mutton but who looks more like leg of dinosaur...
...family lives on Trifan's $9,000 a year in a modest, one-story house filled with educational devices from moon maps, Russian grammars and model dinosaur skeletons to two pianos, including one in a backyard practice cabin. Music is the Trifan passion. Pianist Marioara commutes three times weekly to Philadelphia's noted Curtis Institute, where she is the youngest student. The children practice for three hours in the morning, do school-work until 4 in the afternoon, then get one hour of play...
...Flintstones (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In search of capital gains, Papa Fred and Barney Rubble bet their bundle on a 40-to-l shot at the local dinosaur track...