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...CABBAGE PATCH KIDS, toy-store phenomenon...
Barad is exploring ways to create multimedia toys for other company brands, including Polly Pocket, Cabbage Patch and See 'N Say. "This is only the beginning," she says in a glass-walled office that sports towering early versions of Barbie and her plastic paramour Ken. Barad vows Mattel will be a leader in interactive playthings...
...true, grand solution to the problem of opportunity in America would be laborious and expensive. Affirmative action is a patch solution, not perfectly efficient, but it's cheap and already in place. Politically, the key question about it is how numerous its enemies are. Probably most whites casually resent affirmative action; a committed group burns with outrage about it; and some whites (it's hard to say how many) have actually lost a job or a place in school to an African American because of affirmative action. On the other side is an equally varied group: those who aren...
...patch of lawn in 90 min., how long would it take three men, and would an increase in the minimum wage have an adverse effect on their employability...
...production hit a rough patch when Hawn tried to drop out shortly before shooting started. Paramount's Lansing played hardball, threatening to sue. "I'll take your house," an insider remembers her threatening. Hawn stayed in but asked for changes to make the women less shrewish. "I stuck with that bone and didn't let it go," she says. Addams Family Values screenwriter Paul Rudnick polished the script. And Midler, demanding more comedy, improvised some of her sharpest lines, including her comment to her husband's lithe mistress: "My, my. The bulimia certainly has paid...