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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even classic toys get face-lifts, rendering them inexpressive. There is something ridiculous about being able to buy a sock monkey. Legos used to be jumbled batches of bright bricks with the occasional wheel or axle. Now you can buy the Star Wars Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser kit, 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Toys are a trapeze, swinging us from age to age. Those that leave nothing to the imagination never sweep us off our feet. So maybe it's good news that toys have turned out not to be recession-proof after all: analysts called last year's holiday sales the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Zhu Zhu Hamsters, Classic Toys Have Power | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

A lot of people have left. The world calls to the people of Lake Wobegon, especially to the young. I don't know what it is, but they leave. All of the work that we put into raising them and educating them and instilling values of industry and loyalty and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

No. The Internet is full of humorists. They've risen from the earth. They've fallen from the skies. Anyone can write anything, anytime they want. Blogs that are angry--which maybe half of them are--wear out. What people keep going back to are writers who are funny. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Its role is to talk to people who are stuck in traffic. And conservatives become incensed enough listening to public radio that it keeps them awake so they don't drive into a fire hydrant. That's what we do: we save the lives of thousands of right-wingers every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Garrison Keillor | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

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