Word: ladybug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with an owl's face drawn on it, the skeleton of a bat, the mummified body of a cat, a twisted wagon tongue, a piece of the rudder of a fishing boat...
...always been our most popular toy." Still, it is only one of a menagerie of 250 different stuffed animals running the gamut from A (alligators) to Z (zebras). Visiting toyshops and department stores in the U.S. last week, Steiff was taking orders for everything from a thumb-sized ladybug made of clipped wool (60?) to an 8½-ft.-tall giraffe covered in mohair plush ($500). The company's 2,100 workers also turn out life-sized gorillas, kangaroos and buffaloes. Total production amounts to 3,500,000 individual animals a year, and all are handmade...
...Lucky Ladybug was sung by Billy & Lilly...
...When she was two, her Negro nurse landsaked, "Lawd, she's purty as a ladybird," and the name stuck. A ladybird, as it is called in the Southwest, is not a bird at all, but a black-dotted little beetle, otherwise known as a ladybug...
...same statement might be made to anyone who wants to see this movie. Ladybug is the second picture put together by Scenarist Eleanor and Director Frank Perry, the husband-and-wife team whose first picture, David and Lisa, was the best movie made in the U.S. last year. But this time the Perrys have plonked. Ladybug just crawls along for 81 minutes and never decides where it is going. The movie aims to be a thriller with a moral: it merely achieves a puerile apocalypse...