Word: toye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house also contains some of Mrs. Constable's designs. She loves constructing paper animals; one sits next to a toy hedgehog on her husband's desk in the study. (Mrs. Constable has illustrated a children's book about hedgehogs, scheduled for publication this spring...
...reconstructed his childhood to suit his mood. Born in the silver-mining town of Guanajuato and brought up in Mexico City, Diego recalled that at the age of four he was denouncing Christianity to his horrified elders; at a slightly older age, he claimed that he made 5,000 toy Russian soldiers out of cardboard to do battle with capitalists. There is no doubting, however, his early aptitude for art. At ten he was enrolled in art school, and at 21 he won a scholarship to study in Europe, where he spent 13 years imitating the masters and searching...
...spinning coins on a marble table. But it owes much to his use of the literary come-on. On one page, for example, Dagmar is seen standing next to a Christmas tree. "Through the tree's branches," writes Saporta, "Dagmar looks like one more fantastic toy . . . She is naked." The page ends there. The reader-at least the male reader-turns expectantly to the next page. No Dagmar. And turn or shuffle as he will, he never gets to the other side of that Christmas tree...
...charge business and union with neglect in meeting their responsibilities in giving the consumer what he is led to believe he has paid for. Whether I pay $2.50 for a toy, $25 for wearing apparel, $2,500 for a car, $25,000 for a home, or $25 million for a Mercury shot, the product too often contains the same careless construction and careful avoidance of detail, quality and followup. There is more than quality of workmanship lacking-there is pride of workmanship...
...twisted bicycle. A flattened toy gun. A silver corkscrew. A blue-handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...