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Sitting on the couch in the living-room, just off the playroom filled with Edward's toys, the threesome present a snapshot of family happiness...
...generally driven by trenchant wit this year, but Nissan's spot amounted to topnotch satire of one of auto advertising's perennial themes: the right wheels always win you the babe. To the beat of Van Halen's You Really Got Me, a G.I. Joe look-alike leaves one playroom, hits the road for another in a sporty coupe and picks up a silver-lamed faux Barbie from her plastic manse. The crestfallen loser? A dull, preppie sort. The message? Drive Nissan...
Charities covered P.J.'s medical expenses, but local residents chipped in to build a special playroom that blocks out ultraviolet rays and filled it with every toy imaginable. While the room was being built, a young carpenter came to help lay the concrete floor. "He kept sanding and sanding and asking us what kind of finish we wanted," Deloris recalls. "The two carpenters with him told him that it was fine like it was because all we were going to do was put carpeting down." After the carpenters had gone, Deloris looked outside, and the man was still there, sanding...
Imust admit that I am writing this with a divided heart. Part of me objects to it: the part that dreams about outer space, that as child turned my playroom into the bridge of a spaceship. In third grade, I even wrote a short science-fiction story about an astronaut who is sent to the far ends of the galaxy to investigate a mysterious alien message...
...going, it's not just an adventure; it's a trip. Anything from flowers to fire may pop out of the sunburnt-orange floorboards. A stormy sea comes to roiling life with just a tilted spar and a few sprawling actors. By the end, the Arena has become a playroom filled with spritely wonder...