Word: matchboxful
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Finally she seemed to understand what she needed to do, and she began slowly scribbling the answers on the tired-looking paper, while her four-year-old brother weaved his Matchbox car in and out between our legs. The television blasted the soundtrack of a black-and-white Spanish movie that her stepfather was watching, and I tried to stifle my unruly thoughts...
...Ferrari, G.I. Joe rappelling from the chimney with care. There will be Lego castles aloft by Christmas dinnertime, cabins carved of Lincoln Logs, and portraits etched on the Etch A Sketch. Even some new hits, like Lewis Galoob's Micro Machines, are souped-up successors to such staples as Matchbox cars. "All these toys have predictable long life," says Peter Harris, president of F.A.O. Schwarz in Manhattan, "while enhancing children's fantasies and imagination...
...townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg and Pretoria, where the urban black labor force is required by law to live, many of the roads are littered, unpaved and scarred with potholes. Increasingly, however, they lead to the gates of grandiose homes built amid the matchbox slums by a new class of upwardly mobile black professionals and entrepreneurs known, like their American counterparts, as "buppies." Inside exclusive enclaves with up- market names like Siluma View and Beverly Hills, the new black elite is enjoying amenities once reserved for whites only: "his" and "hers" Mercedes, live-in black servants, Jacuzzi baths...
...here, though, is the flat-out rock 'n' roll: John blow torching his way through a couple of Arthur Alexander scorchers, Soldier of Love and A Shot of Rhythm and Blues; Paul lighting into That's All Right Mama and striking sparks off Carl Perkins' Matchbox. George gets to sing at least once on his own (a very snug version of Nothin' Shakin' but the Leaves on the Trees); and Ringo turns in an exuberant rough-house performance of I Want to Be Your Man. These songs all have the blind energy, nerve...
...refugees: the vacancy rate in Dade County rental houses and apartments is a mere 1%, and the county has received no federal public housing money in 14 years. Though Washington claims that 85% of the Cuban boat people have been placed with sponsors, many are stacked in crowded matchbox dwellings in Little Havana with distant relatives who have agreed reluctantly to let them stay for a while. Some 750 Cubans live in Campamento del Rio (River Camp), a group of Army squad tents nestled under the elevated highway Interstate 95. People wash at spigots; laundry flutters from wire fences; young...