Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having skipped a couple of grades, he decided to kill a year between high school and college, went to live with his sister in Los Angeles. He worked in a toy store, shot pool, and went to the track. Finally, he took a job as office boy in MGM's cartoon department "so I could watch movie stars." Then he began to study acting at the now defunct, professional Players Ring Theater. From then on, all thoughts of college vanished. He moved on to TV's Matinee Theater, and in 1958 he made his first movie, Cry Baby...
Lunokhod is powered by solar cells that are apparently charged when it opens its clamlike lid to sunlight. One or more electric motors drive each of the eight spoked wheels independently. Like a remote-controlled toy car, it is steered by radio signals from earth, where monitors are able to see the terrain in front, behind and to the side of the rover in pictures transmitted from onboard TV cameras. To avert disabling accidents, Lunokhod has a number of safety features. It can, for instance, shut itself off if it begins to list dangerously, or if one of its wheels...
Other children may not be so lucky, and the Food and Drug Administration last week said that it would take steps to ban Balloon Squawkers and three other potentially harmful toys: metal-tipped lawn darts that have pierced a child's skull, a super-loud cap gun that can cause ear damage, and a baby rattle that can fall apart and expose sharp metal prongs. If carried out, it would be the first FDA prescription under the Child Protection and Toy Safety...
...first, kids treated Sesame Street like the yellow brick road. Its heavy stress of cooperation over competition, its amalgam of the wholly familiar and the totally exotic were irresistible. It was only grownups who expressed doubts. And who could blame them? For openers, the Street looks as if a toy truck had overturned in Harlem. There is no Disneyesque nostalgia for the inaccessible past. The place is in the unavoidable present; the clothing of the cast is well worn, the umber colors and grit of inner-city life are vital components of the show. Some other main ingredients...
...would be about as important as a broken crayon. The gentleness tends to reassure parents, but children are more often caught up in the lively puppet sequences by Cosmo Alegretti. "We program the gentle side of life," claims Keeshan, an approach that includes gentle lead-ins to cereal, toy, shoe, and game commercials...