Word: toy
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Obviously much depends on how the devices are used. Even in the U.S., the record of shock weapons is far from unblemished. Prison guards in California, Arizona and Texas have been accused of tormenting inmates with stun batons. Five states have banned the devices. "It's one of those toys that enterprising manufacturers have developed that sound real good, but their potential for abuse is so great," says Armond Start, a professor at the National Center for Correctional Health Care Studies. And in the hands of a torturer, the "toy" can produce cruel, even fatal, results...
...Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which has been criticized for allowing the late Princess' signature logo to appear on a tub of margarine, said Wednesday it was approached by the American toy firm Hasbro Inc. about games, puzzles and other toys, including a doll like its popular Sindy. But the London-based Fund responded, "The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund has not granted a license for a Diana Sindy Doll." A spokesman said a Diana doll of some other kind has not been ruled out, as long as it meets the trustees' requirements and is judged acceptable...
Ultimately, the figures and scenarios in Walker's mysterious, melancholy art don't provide the instant recognition that stereotypes require. Although she may toy with stereotypical tropes like hair texture as a signifier of race, close attention to visual detail distinguishes her subversive and exploratory project from an uncritical parroting of racial cliches...
TEACHING AN OLD TOY SOME COOL NEW TRICKS...
...parents alike marveled at the computer-generated antics of Buzz Lightyear and his floppy rival Woody. But that was child's play compared with the technological high jinks Pixar is cooking up for its upcoming Disney movies, A Bug's Life (due this fall) and a sequel to Toy Story (1999). Next on the 3-D animation studio's plate are convincingly rendered humans, the first of which appears in an imaginative short called Geri's Game. Director Jan Pinkava used powerful new software tools to create the skin and facial expressions of an old codger battling his alter...