Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courier who fell afoul of customs was Carole Dale Robinson, a 19-year-old model from San Francisco. She arrived at Mexico City airport last March clutching a stuffed toy llama from Peru. Customs officers split it open?and found 8 Ibs. of pure cocaine inside. She protested that she was merely carrying the toy as a favor for someone else, but in fact U.S. agents had been watching her since she left California. She is now awaiting sentence, which may run as high as seven years...
...formed by pouring liquid-concrete into molds to form made-to-order planks--allows for extraordinarily quick construction. Using this technique the 400-foot laboratory wing was built in seven months. The technique used in putting together the pre-cast concrete planks resembles the way a child's popsiclestick toy raft is constructed. After the girders are put in place, the thin 60-foot-long planks are laid adjacent to one another and sealed weather-tight. In some cases, the sealing has been reinforced with epoxy glue, a cement that when hardened is stronger than the concrete...
...plus about 30 wooden distaffs (for spinning wool into yarn). Half the distaffs are covered with figures of birds, animals, and fanciful arabesques in bright tempera; the others are blond wood so delicately carved that they give the impression of lace. A great find was a group of clever toy whistles made by craftsmen in the Arkhangelsk and Tula regions from 1890 through 1910. The whistles are in the form of horses, dogs, bears, a hen and her chicks, and peasants, and are gaily decorated with bright yellow, peacock blue, and magenta stripes. My favorite one depicts a troika--three...
...best thing about Sergio Leone's movies is their charming and infectious childishness. So gaudy that they seem to have been splashed across the screen with finger paints, so wildly illogical and improbably elaborate that the props might have been pulled from a giant toy box and the plots from comic books, films like the early Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns or Once Upon a Time in the West exert a weird fascination. It is almost as if Leone not only remembers the fantasies of countless Saturday matinees from his childhood but continually relives them...
...Wallace delegates. Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem, Jimmy Breslin. Germaine Greer, Robert (UNCLE) Vaughan, all these as well as unprecedented numbers of blacks, women, and young delegates converged in the same hall. The gathering prompted incredulity, like that experienced by the peach-slacked Miami matron who walked her sequined-collared toy poodle into the midst of the SDS march to confront the Democratic National Committee: "This can't be happening here. This is Miami Beach...