Word: paddington
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Toys that catch fire are another worry. Americans for Democratic Action, a Washington watchdog group, tested 18 stuffed animals and found that 13 of them, including Mattel's Baby Mickey Snuggle Pal, Paddington's 30th Anniversary bear from Eden Toys and Playskool's Big Bird, are flammable, even though they meet existing federal and industry standards. Manufacturers say they have had few complaints and would have to use toxic chemicals to make the toys fully flame-retardant...
...Bears. No holiday season would be complete without a few cuddly creatures. Calliope (33 Brattle) sells three inch high antique bears, for just $3. If money is no object, check out their huge Paddington for $350. For those who are tired of intellectual dining hall conversation, there's always the $89 animated Teddy Ruxpin at FAO Schwarz (40 Newbury...
Instead of an old standby, the isolated country house, the setting is a complex, violent and very real London of the '80s. A junior Cabinet Minister is found with his throat slashed in the dingy vestry behind the altar of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Paddington section of the city. Across the room, a derelict lies dead, killed in the same grisly manner. In charge of the investigation: the sleuth-protagonist of six previous James novels, brooding Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh, a widowed intellectual who loves baroque music. As he did in such previous cases...
Mention Bears these days, and many Britons hardly give a thought to Paddington or Winnie-the-Pooh. The biggest bears of all, they know, come from Chicago. Ever since an N.F.L. game of the week started showing up on the country's TV screens four years ago, the "other" game of football throws fewer and fewer people for a loss. A monthly magazine called Touchdown counts 160,000 readers, and one Briton in every ten saw the Bears in this year's Super Bowl. It's not cricket, of course, but football seems certain to gain even more ground this...
...year list of what's In and what's Out, compiled by Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina S. Hyde. Among this year's Ins: plain white sheets, Mickey Mouse, new rock, Judith Krantz, squash, grapefruit juice, Jessica Savitch, bright pink lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon...