Word: toy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toy Story 2 was the ultimate in collaboration, with three directors on the final credits. Lasseter first got the idea back in 1995 after watching his four youngest boys playing with his Woody collectibles. "My sons looooove to come to Daddy's work," says Lasseter. "But Daddy has one-of-a-kind toys, old and expensive, and he gets very nervous when the bulls are playing in the china shop. I found myself freaking--and laughing at myself." He also started thinking. Toys were meant to be played with. How must they feel about being put on the shelf...
...help his two younger co-directors. More than half the movie had to be redone. Buster the dog was added, as was Wheezy, the damaged penguin. Tensions rose as the workload increased. The company stock was on a yo-yo ride, with merchandise income from the $358 million megahit Toy Story trickling out and home video and merchandise sales from A Bug's Life ($362 million worldwide) expected to fall below expectations...
...often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing over walls of ice, crossing expanses of open water on ice blocks bound by ropes, skiing through clouds of drifting snow. Burton Meyer of Downers Grove, Ill., a retired toy designer, first crossed the North Pole with Northwest Passage at 69. Among his companions: a 16-year-old schoolgirl, one of only three women ever to reach the pole on foot. Meyer remembers everything about his trip, the second of 12 he's made with the company: "We traveled 13 miles...
Instead of the usual parade of great photographers, this is more the story of pictures themselves, how they conquered the world and filled every last inch of psychic space. It travels from the Kodak Brownie, the memory toy that let everyone commemorate the everyday, to the computer manipulations that turn pictures into smooth lies. This is history that gives more time to mass-market phenomena and socially concerned work than anything formalist, unengaged or inward. So LIFE magazine, tabloids and the child-labor photos of Lewis Hine are all nicely served. Minor White, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston...
...rapacious toy collector is leaning over the old man repairing the torn arm of a small cloth figure. "So how long is this gonna take?" Al shouts. And the gnomish artisan snaps back with a rage born in loving care, "You can't! Push...