Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cement their position. McFarlane was uneasy about the idea of shipping U.S. arms to people the American government had no contact with except through Kimche. Well, Kimche replied, suppose Israel shipped the arms and asked the U.S. to replenish Israel's stocks? Said McFarlane: "David, let's not kid ourselves. The matter isn't whether or not Israel is entitled to buy weapons from the U.S. The matter is a policy judgment that you are going to start supporting a faction in Iran with weapons and whether that's a sensible thing...
...than in fairy tales or the mythic wellsprings behind children's play, the marketers have long since phased out the elves in Santa's workshop (and kicked the old gentleman upstairs to his present role as the Colonel Sanders of the Yuletide franchise). Big business, after all, is not kid stuff; the other way round is more like it. In the U.S. last Christmas, according to the ledgers of the Wall Street Journal, "the average household bought 30 gifts and spent $315." In 1985 $12 billion worth of toys were sold at retail, 60% of them in the three months...
...about $56) is a gray, green and purple animated dinosaur that turns -- with some flips, tucks and fast snaps -- into an entire city. Transformers (a mainstay of Toy & Hobby World's Toy Hit Parade) have lots of modern dash, but electric trains still have romance enough to lure any kid away from a video game. Purists note that Lionel may not be all it once was, but the H-O gauge lines of Marklin and Roco, Lima and Liliput, chug as reliably as ever, and the large-scale LGBs, made in West Germany, could be the grandest toy trains ever...
Union Dorms Senior Advisor Thomas Hassan, who was a "blue collar kid at Brown," says when he talks to students from low-income backgrounds he is forced to recall his own "experience at a school that was expensive, worrying that my parents had to scrape together the money and not wanting to disappoint them--wanting to do well, finding it hard to admit defeat...
...imprinted with a testimonial: "I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon." That kind of thing has been said by Danny's first partner, Kid Brother Neil. But actually, the blurb is from Woody Allen, with whom Danny collaborated on NBC's The Colgate Comedy Hour for a season in the mid-'50s. These days Danny's pupils are not apprentices but paying customers for classes he conducts privately in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where he lives...