Word: playroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good and two for evil. The trouble with this Parker Bros, homunculus is that it looks as if it should be able to use its arms and legs like a true robot, and it can't. Rom will end up among the dust balls under the playroom sofa...
Kaufman is at his best and most challenging when he does not let anyone in on the joke, doesn't even admit there's a joke at all. The playroom innocence of Kaufman's live show is a touch indulgent, almost always inspired. Sometimes at the beginning, a pretty girl comes out with an invitation to milk and cookies, a promise made good at show's end, when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have...
During my time there, however, I perceived some conservatism among the staff. One counselor complained that the only way the older children would obey him was through fear--"pushing them around, but never really punching them." Playgroups are segregated by sex. In the "boys' playroom," children ride bicycles, run around, and climb monkeybars; in the "girls' playroom," passive behavior is encouraged, such as watching T.V. and crayoning. But through my contact with children, I realized the difficulty of translating theory into reality, and often sympathized with workers in difficult situations, though their actions were not the most "therapeutic...
Even when it comes, recognition has sometimes been careless and absentminded, casually askew. In Carew's playroom is a 2-ft.-high trophy-the Joe Cronin Award-all polished wood and gleaming brass. The American League presented it to the great lefthanded hitter in recognition of his fourth consecutive batting championship. On top of the trophy stands the likeness of a batter -a righthanded batter...
...little girl leaves her playroom, the camera dwells on the dolls left behind: Raggedy Ann, Barney Beanbag, Susie Pincushion and the rest. There is a shimmer of music, the photography dissolves to animation, the dolls come alive and begin talking to one another-surely a child's fantasy about what dolls do behind closed doors. Later, when the little girl returns, the dolls resume their still-life poses, and the animation dissolves back to reality...