Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streak of playfulness. Ron Curtis' outdoor table, for example -- a piece of painted redwood fastened to a teak stake -- seems perfect for grownup Cheever children: charmingly zany and casually handy, equipment for a movable fete or a midsummer night's drink. The View-Master 3-D Viewer, a color-slide viewer intended for actual children, has been around for nearly 50 years. In honor of its longevity, the company commissioned Designers D.M. Gresham and Martin Thaler to produce a new version. It is a $5 delight, its function and structure self-evident, its whimsical spirit exactly appropriate...
...called Lazer Tag: "I was also intrigued by one toy, Spacewarp, which looks like a high-toned version of a marble game I used to love." When he was a boy, recalls Ferrer, toys were less exotic. He and his brother constructed raceways from blocks for marbles to slide down, and would play with them for hours, until their sister toddled in and knocked everything over...
LAST WEEK, Jean kilbourne brought her now-famous slide show "The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women" back to Harvard. In it, she shows how advertising's sexist imagery systematically dehumanizes women...
While electronics and car manufacturers have only recently stumbled, Japan's coal-mining industry has been in a long slide. Indeed, the industry may have survived only because of price supports. A government advisory panel last month recommended that domestic coal production should be slashed 38%, to 10 million tons a year, by 1991. As a result, about 11,000 of the country's 24,000 miners would lose their jobs. Says Shigeo Shigetaka, a union official at the Mitsui Sunagawa coal mine: "The proposed cut is the same as a death sentence." To protest the plan, workers at Japan...
Brady said another less scientific index--"theJohnny Carson indicator"--also offered evidence ofthe president's slide. "When Johnny Carson startsmaking jokes and the people are laughing atReagan, you know he's in trouble," Brady said...