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Carney is an "Etch-A-Sketch" politician. He begins every campaign from scratch and views each as a personal test to do the job better than it was done before. Consider just some of the New Hampshire moves Carney is helping oversee, work Dole's rivals can only envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOLE'S KITCHEN MAGICIAN | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...Drops Bombs" is indicative of the album as a whole. The twelve tracks end up blending together as one murky montage of tambourines, Hammond organs, watery electric guitars, and indistinct vocal harmonies which spew out shallow lines of neo-psychedelia such as "I hear your tambourines/inside my Etch-a-Sketch...

Author: By Ron Weiner, | Title: The Dylans Take Us On a Trip to the 60s | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...kitchen counter at 36 Irving St. is an Etch-a-Sketch. On the grey face above the two knobs are not the usual convoluted stick men, shaky square house, or the even more usual quasigeometrical mess of random shapes and wiggles. Glaring from the screen is a squat, intricate medieval demon named Baphomet, who has a cross in his crotch, a flaming eye in his right hand and a nasty leer on his toothy face. Baphomet used to be regarded as the guardian of the gates of hell, and here, on the kitchen counter, in the squiggly confines...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Mark has an amazing talent with the Etch-a-Sketch. For a while, he did a different one every day. Hamlet holding Yorick's skull. More demons, some of them on motorcycles. Scenes from the Arabian Nights. When he went back to Cairo to visit his fiancee, after finishing his thesis, Mark said goodbye to the house with a pyramid landscape, replete with all three pyramids, a blazing sunset, a camel and himself waving goodbye in the distance. The round knobs just don't look capable...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Parents who are shocked by their children's Pentagon-size procurement plans should take heart. Many simple, inexpensive toys have persevered over the years. Etch-A-Sketch costs only $9, compared with $3 when it was born 25 years ago. Slinky ($1.59), the coiled spring that walks down stairs, sells at the rate of 3 million annually after 40 years on the market. The tough question is whether Stinkor will still be around years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Fun Factories | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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