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Parents who try to buck the marketing efforts of the toymakers by even so much as thinking about more conventional gifts will need a division of G.I. Joes to hold their ground. When asked what they want for Christmas, most children will parrot the names of popular toys. Jennifer Been, 7, of Dallas advises that she wants a Cabbage Patch Kid, a Cabbage Patch stroller, a Fisher-Price camera and Lego building blocks. Says she: "Almost every girl in the second grade has a Cabbage Patch...
...king's affections to distract the king from the beautiful Angela whom Tartaglia wants for himself. At the same time, the magician Duandarte, who long ago taught King Deramo the secret of inhabitating the bodies of other people and beasts, is returning to Serendippo in the shape of a parrot. Gozzi's fabulous fantasy concocted with generous helpings of magic and love is--some things are easy to guess--fantastic...
...publishing houses, "Who is in charge?" The answer is everybody and nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake and pie. "I'm all for good eating," says Illinois Reading Specialist Jean Osborn, "but for a child in a story not to be able to have a birthday cake...
...complains that the Biennale, like art itself, is in decline; such complaints are a necessary part of the ritual of visiting it. But this year in particular the visitor feels like a tourist in a glass-bottomed boat, gliding over a dying reef: here a brilliant polyp, there a parrot fish or sea fan, but acres of dead whitishgray coral to tell the real story...
...hurt most, especially your family," explains Lucho Arango, 29, a Bogotá office worker whose family ran afoul of the mafia. According to Psychologist Gonzalo Amador, mafia enforcers will kill their enemies' wives, children, servants and family friends. They have even been known to kill the family parrot "to keep it from talking," he says...