Word: toy
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Words are at the childlike core of Alice in Wonderland, and it is heartening that they have been honored in this production. Words are a child's grandest toy. They are also his first mystery. Even before he understands them, he puts them together and takes them apart. He pops pieces of them into his mouth, and spits them out in odd shapes. It is a profound form of play, for it is the only tool a child is given with which to comprehend a world in which he coexists without really belonging -the world of adults...
...Tops exemplifies one type of film done by Charles and Ray Eames, the toy films. These films are "purely visual and musical," said Eames. In their previous toy films, Charles and Ray Eames explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over blacktop. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
...said the rape occurred Tuesday night in an off-campus dormitory as other residents attended a meeting in the house. A man, armed with either a real or toy gun, forced his way into the dormitory and raped a student not at the meeting...
...Toy Pistols. "My criterion for success," he recalls, "was money-money made you a big man." As a result, he and a buddy enlisted a young woman employee of the New York Telephone Co. as their accomplice and pulled off a $23,000 payroll holdup at one of the company's Bronx offices. There was no violence; they used toy pistols for the job. Six weeks later, Kemp was arrested for the first time; the girl, questioned about her sudden big-spending habits, had talked...