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...pronounced ''connects,'' and is perhaps best described as a color-coded plastic construction set. The giant 1,800-piece set, which sells for $99.99, can be snapped together to make everything from Ferris wheels and robots to helicopters and windmills. Produced by the Rodon Group, K'NEX had sales that topped $25 million last year, in contrast to $2 million...
...every item of houseware. Now it has got around to the lowly bottle opener. Perhaps inspired by a mental picture of millions of infantilized men sucking on beer bottles as they watch football (or soccer) on TV, Morozzi used the baby rattle as a model, producing a jumbo-size plastic opener that is both playful and elegant. It comes in black and white and -- yes -- blue and pink...
...wonder, skepticism, beauty” and more. “In her films,” writes Tom Gunning in his foreword to Child’s book This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics Of Film, “images, sound and words are all treated as plastic matter, open to re-arrangement, liberated from predetermined meaning, and embarked on adventures in ambiguity and discovery.” Such liberation and adventures are certainly the case with Ms. Child’s most recent film, “The Future Is Behind You” (2004), a short that...
There are two Facebook groups dedicated to drinking out of unconventional containers, “The Duck” and “Cone Funnel.” These group members either fill a plastic duck with beer and drink out of the duck’s bill or use a traffic cone as a makeshift beer bong. At The Game, a plastic megaphone will make a good replacement. After you’re tanked, you’re conveniently ready to cheer—as long as it’s before half-time...
...children, who held a large sign displaying a letter addressed to Summers, were distracted momentarily by the candy in the large plastic bowl held out to them...