Word: toy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fabric store. Part-time Kisco resident Arlene Francis (I once wore her son's former Little League uniform) used to come in. Arlene, standing behind her sunglasses, talked to me. "Darling, pull down that bolt for me, won't you, dearie?" Sure, Arlene, if you'll ask your toy poodle to kindly stop crapping on my foot. It got so that I preferred the drunk who swung on the arm of Chief Kisco's statue and snapped it off. Or Jack, the 350-pound giant who lives in a flat over the bowling alleys...
...viewer sees a configuration of the Virgin Mary, another a storm at sea, a third the blossoming of an exotic tropical plant. But the Kalliroscope is more than a Rorschach in flux. It is also a work of art, a study in hydrodynamics, a patented invention, a decoration, a toy-and with sales already exceeding 15,000-one of this year's most successful novelty items...
...destructive Mandy is balanced by the Mandy who has an obsession for order and symmetry. A toy out of place, a hair clip without a precisely secured mate on the other side of her head could send her into rages. In quiet moments she rocks herself with a natural sea-born rhythm. But when Mandy dances, it is explosive, "closer to Nijinsky or Zorba the Greek than to Fred Astaire." Her favorite toys are paper cutouts of golliwogs and Draculas and model airplanes that West assembles with her. The glue goes to their heads...
EDWARD ALBEE once wrote a play about a middle-aged couple who, before putting Grandma permanently in the sandbox with a toy shovel, gave her a nice place to live under the stove, with an Army blanket and her very own dish. The play contains more truth than allegory. One of the poignant trends of U.S. life is the gradual devaluation of older people, along with their spectacular growth in numbers. Twenty million Americans are 65 or over. They have also increased proportionately, from 2.5% of the nation's population in 1850 to 10% today...
...Julie Budd (nee Erdman), 16, is a Brooklyn-born toy Streisand, (5 ft. 2½ in.). She has yet to learn to read music and insists that she has never studied voice. Says Julie: "I just open my mouth and sing." Within the three years since she was discovered on an amateur night at a resort in the Catskills, she has appeared on most of the network variety shows, including Merve Griffin for the 34th time last week, and has played Caesars Palace in Vegas with Frank Sinatra. She has a big three-octave range and reaches high C with...