Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equilibrium. McCartney, married to Linda Eastman and staying close to the hearthside, released a series of albums that were roundly drubbed as corny, until he broke through splendidly in 1973 with Band on the Run. Lennon, married to Ono and living in New York, released a great solo record, Plastic Ono Band, then threw himself headlong into uncertainty. He and Ono lived in a series of elaborate post-hippie crash pads, became obsessed not only with artistic experimentation but with radical political flamboyance. Lennon's subsequent albums remained achingly personal, but turned increasingly random, unfocused. They were indignant...
...record, demonstrated that. Ono's contributions are especially accessible and congenial after years of punk and New Wave conditioning. John's songs, simple, direct and melodic, were celebrations of love and domesticity that asked for, and required, no apology. It was not a great record, like Plastic Ono Band, but it might have been the start of another time of greatness...
...tool kit is just part of the extensive Tuff Stuff line, which also provides plastic implements for would-be doctors, bus drivers and, depressingly, journalists...
Monopoly, though, seems outrageously tame next to Adorable Dora. A plastic hippopotamus in a low-cut dress, Dora dances-- "Swings"-- and mouths the lyrics that you, four or older, are actually singing from a nearby plastic microphone...
...exception, though, is one totally mysterious digital game with a bespectacled plastic hen perched on its dashboard. It's called I Took a Lickin' from a Chicken, and when you're outperformed the bird does a little convulsive dance and cackles throatily...