Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Tinker's Toy. Caro creates by adding pieces to a growing work. He may start by suspending a steel circle from the roof, or by resting a bar against a packing crate. Then, prowling through the work, he alters the angles like a tinker with a giant toy. He likes to work in a confined space to prevent stepping back, taking an overall look and possibly making cliche changes for symmetry's sake. Once the girders are joined together, Caro slaps on flat, emphatic coats of bright - paint whose loud colors are supposed to have a kind...
...Sixty-three seemed the year of lost hope for Virginia liberals. Gov. Harrison and Lt. Gov. Godwin had defeated a liberal ticket in 1961. The "Young Turks"--Boothe of Alexandria, Toy Savage of Norfolk and others--who had fought the Byrd Organization's segregation and tight budget policies during the '50s--were beaten and tired and did not run for the state legislature in '63. The conservatives who did run and were elected ignored a state constitutional mandate to reapportion the legislature...
...Louis Napoleon, son of Brother Louis, was the second and last of the Bonaparte emperors (L'Aiglon was proclaimed Emperor in 1815, but he never actually ruled). In Stacton's opinion, he was merely "a paper demagogue" who wrote lively pamphlets and had "the dignity of a toy lion." Carried into office on a flood tide of Bonapartism, he soon made it clear that his resemblance to Napoleon was merely nominal. He became a sort of Gallic Coolidge decorated with Continental charm, and he presided over an era of prosperous inanition that collapsed in the debacle...
Susan Dubiner's costumes are an odd lot. The noblemen wear something resembling a toga and wigs that look as if they came out of a toy disguise kit. But maybe it's how they wear their wigs, and not the wigs themselves, that seems so ludicrous. At any rate Miss Dubiner's mass-produced fairy outfits serve well...
...head out of proportion. I'm Government property until March 1967, and then I'll probably get out and into the entertainment world." He's got a healthy start. He has just signed an agreement for commercial licensing of his name on T shirts and toy guns...