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...world today is one big capitalist playpen, and there are some pretty good companies in most corners of the globe. Want to invest in the world's largest pharmaceutical company? It's Switzerland's Novartis, not U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson or Merck. Have a taste for the planet's biggest food company? It's Netherlands-based Unilever, not home-baked RJR Nabisco or Sara Lee. Biggest farm-equipment maker? It's Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, not Caterpillar or Deere. Metal goods? Try France's Pechiney, not Alcoa...
...matter how domestically challenged, to get out of the house on his own. And they have, in droves. The age of first marriage for men has shot up to almost 27, and after divorce it is the man who gets the bachelor pad and the woman who gets the playpen and potty seat. More than at any other time in the past 25 years, men are living in a state of radical disconnection from the women-and-children part of the human race...
Woody and Buzz become uneasy partners, Defiant Ones-style, when they are captured by Sid, the toy torturer next door. Sid must have spoken to a deep, dark streak in the animators, so lovingly do they detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...
...always considered Guatemala its private playpen. It was in Guatemala that the agency learned to overthrow Latin governments, engineering the 1954 coup that toppled leftist President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Administrations have come and gone. So has the cold war. But the freewheeling tradecraft the agency practiced in Guatemala has barely changed. "If you were going to pick a place where the CIA still has a cowboy mentality, it's there," says a former top official with the agency...
...times water and the shore were nothing but the playpen of high class society to him. Light mixes of baby blue and lavender reflect a magical violet and pink sky shining down on picnickers in sun-bonnets sitting under the shade of stubby saplings whilst a glow of yellow gold bathes the hillock rising up from the watery expanse. Vose Galleries deemed this, Picnic Overlooking the Harbor, as Farndon's most important work, and indeed his success in capturing a vision of paradise seems to have compelled him in many of his works only with incomplete and less satisfactory results...