Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronny Milsaps of the world. Waylon's bit in all this is interesting--he has an ego you could stretch from Port Arthur to El Paso, and it must give him a kick to play a role of fatherly support for Hank Jr., to hear those lines "Waylon and Toy (Calder) are my only boys, I want to say thanks to you/Your fiddle and your steel made me play what I feel and I don't feel lovesick blues." Waylon documented his own Hank Williams problem a few years ago with "Are You Sure Hank Done It This...
...costly and elaborate make-believe edifice that he wants on the screen constantly, shot from as many angles as possible, in order to justify its expense. Far from resisting this demand, the director will typically respond with bursts of enthusiastic inventiveness-a kid playing happily with a splendid new toy...
...initiations and in morning discourses attended by 1,000 or more motionless visitors, Rajneesh is a master of psychodrama. As he explained bluntly to Malkin, "The whole abracadabra is just to console you. It is a toy. The purpose of sanyas is so that you go on hanging around, so that a single sound from me, or just a look, will bring you that moment of enlightenment." So potent is that effect that most of the ashram's 200 permanent residents no longer bother to listen to the guru's words. "It's the presence that matters...
Mready the highest-grossing picture in U.S. history ($195 million), the film may very well break European records too. In Paris, where it opened last October, 1 million people went to see the robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio, at the annual toy show, and kids say goodbye with a wave of the arm and a "Que la force soit avec toi." Their parents are standing in line too, and journals have hailed its brave statement of the human spirit...
...presumably plays with his maps and dice and cardboard counters), and so do the CIA and the Soviet embassy. Hobbyists gather every week at the Compleat Strategist, a Manhattan shop specializing in war-game paraphernalia, to play out SPI and Avalon Hill battles with divisions of 25-mm. toy soldiers...