Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building up elsewhere. In Norwood, Ohio, Mrs. Stephen Wetzel, a mother of three, read about the doll in the newspapers, formed a committee that has since mailed off over a thousand letters of protest to Government officials, churches, clubs and department stores, branding the $19.95 doll an "obscene toy." Southern California is currently being blanketed by other protesters who believe that Little Brother will "complicate existing problems of sex and perversion...
...photographer (Ephrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has no idea where it is. To break down her story, the crooks concoct a series of elaborate disguises, posing as old men, young men, policemen and friends...
Unseen Goddesses. In listing the lenders to the show, Director Rene d'Harnoncourt wound up "thanking most of all an old friend, Pablo Picasso himself." And well he might, for 90% of the sculptures, from massive bronzes to toy stick figures carved to amuse children, comes from Picasso's own collection. As the throngs who jammed the show's opening days agreed, they indeed make a diverting display. Though Picasso may consider them doodles, they are clearly the doodles of genius. They reflect a fantastic fertility of invention, a sculptural technique to match every...
...1950s, Picasso turned to bronze castings of sculptures made with "found objects." Many of them, such as the Baboon and Young, with toy auto for a head and metal spring for a tail, are so well known that they set all sorts of precedents for the neo-Dadaists of the 1960s. But in this category, too, there are delightful examples of Picasso's wit never seen before, including a little girl caught skipping rope in mid-jump, and a pipe-tube, stiffly starched nurse pushing a baby in a pram...
...controlled and repeated, but cannot be explained away as an aberration of probability theory, the very tour de force this uncomfortable science needs so badly. Unlike Mumler, Serios represents a phenomenon we can and should investigate. The question of the reality of his powers is not an intellectual toy, but an issue of immediate importance, for if those powers are real, nothing can ever be quite the same again. If Ted Serios can mentally cause or influence the production of images on Polaroid Land film, then the traditional divisions of mind and matter, the life of the mind...