Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past three months, Koosh Kins have ranked among the top 10 non-TV- promoted toys, according to The Toy Book, a trade publication. Says associate publisher Jim Silver: "If ((OddzOn)) created some sort of animation, they could do even better." That may be next. OddzOn hopes to spin off a TV program (Koosh Kin Kartoons?) and may soon have Koosh Kins klinging to sleeping bags and lunch boxes...
SIGMAR POLKE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first major North American survey of a restlessly eclectic German artist, 49, whose work ranges from Pop-related imagery through psychedelic fantasy. Polke's recent "alchemical" works incorporate materials (silver oxide, sealing wax, even rat poison) that change color and texture as climatic conditions vary. Through...
...recent wave of hype began last year with his defense of hotel magnate Leona Helmsley. With the release of Reversal of Fortune, the film in which actor Ron Silver portrays Dershowitz defending Claus von Bulow, the feisty professor's public recognition level rose another notch...
...HOUSE OF BARRYMORE by Margot Peters (Knopf; $29.95). The rollicking lives and boozy times of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore, the silver siblings of stage and screen whose character roles delighted millions but whose flawed characters inflicted havoc on their own lives and those of their children...
...concrete proof of how much they have achieved since they began rebuilding their country from the rubble of the Korean War. "New York, Paris, are better than us, more beautiful," concedes a government guide. "But 40 years ago, New York, Paris, were the same." The nation "so rich in silver and in gold," as its national anthem proclaims, has enough resources to build $500 million stadiums, but its citizens must get by on about $50 a month. "These people have hard currency -- they are not so hopeless as ((the people in)) many other countries I deal with," says a European...