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...same people who last year brought you "Strolling Bowling" (bowling balls that walk) this year push "Goofy Golf" (correct, golf balls that walk). And every store in the city has "Tippee Toes," a doll that pushes a stroller. Actually, you push the stroller and she clutches it and walks behind. Complete with inspirational poem...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toys for the Real Generation | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

...tried in Moscow, Marseille, Paris, Naples as well as Berlin, cities whose textures and pungencies he focused with astonishing force in his writings. Thirsty for experience, Benjamin became a passionate stroller-observer who conveyed the impression that the streets bent to meet his oncoming perceptions. His pieces about Europe's great cosmopolitan centers contain the best writing in this translation of Reflections. The book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century's fragments of shattered traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Wars | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...virulence of the Italian kidnaping disease were soon reinforced. On the same day as the Ortiz-Patińo abduction, Italian police logged their 60th kidnaping this year. The victim was Giorgio Garbero, 4, grandson of Orfeo Pianelli, a wealthy Turin industrialist The child was seized from his stroller by two men as his grandmother wheeled him home from a park. Before the accompanying guard could reach his revolver, he was clubbed and then blinded by a chemical that one of the kidnapers sprayed in his face. The ransom demand, thought to be the highest in Italian history: $11.3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Don't Let Her Suffer | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...casual stroller who would like to think of the world's greatest playwright as the bawd of Avon will find plenty of license at Joseph Papp's production of Measure for Measure in Manhattan's Central Park. "Hence shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: License in the Park | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...really turned on by the mission. One woman who had ventured into the big GUM department store near Red Square at launch time to buy a TV set grumbled that the crowds kept her from the sales counter. Asked what he thought of Soyuz's successful liftoff, a stroller along Gorky Street replied: "Oh, has it all started?" A man absorbed in a chess game in a nearby park was just as blasé. "Chess is more difficult," he shrugged and turned back to his board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Tuned In, But Not Turned On | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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