Word: toy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, like a child who grabs for the shiniest, newest toy on the shelves despite the piles of playthings strewn about the floor at home, capricious MTV's embrace of her music slowly faded away. However, that doesn't mean her music has lost any of its gusto, as shown by her performance at The Middle East Saturday night...
...desert seems, on the face of it, about as rational as filling a cruise ship with sand and camels, but it has its own value as spectacle. And nowhere in Vegas is water as spectacular as at the Bellagio, which rises 36 stories, clean and shiny as a new toy freshly unpacked, from the shore of an eight-acre artificial lake symbolizing Lake Como, complete with hundreds of fountains shooting their jets 200 ft. into the air to the accompaniment of operatic arias...
...family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene jokes, sexist comments and alcohol-induced insults, deftly making you want to strangle him; and Paula Plum, playing Boo's mother, giggles her way adeptly into our sympathies as Soot descends further and further into flamboyant madness...
...minute foray into the wilderness of Massachusetts, it is definitely worth it for an afternoon away from the complexity of everyday life. At Wal-Lex, it really is possible for adults to revisit the nostalgia of childhood, when winning was about getting the best plastic toy and a good time was about playing tag and trying to wreak as much havoc as possible...
Even if several new toys catch fire in the shopping season that is just starting, Toys "R" Us will have to fight harder than ever for its slice of the profit. Wal-Mart's share of the $35 billion toy-retailing industry has grown from 10% in 1990 to 16% this year; over the same period Target's share has more than doubled, to 7%. The discount stores use toys as "traffic builders," attracting families with low prices on popular toys and then making higher profits on such items as clothing and appliances. "Wal-Mart and Target carry only...