Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember what that means? By the toy store in two hours. See you there...
Those meetings with Lyolya, usually in front of the big Dom Igrushki toy store on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, sometimes seemed more like a TV sitcom than what they were and still are: an essential and sometimes perilous part of a Moscow correspondent's job. Moscow's Lyolyas -- what few are left after years of KGB crackdowns -- carry news of dissidents, refuseniks, political prisoners, religious activists, divided families and the other sad human detritus of a totalitarian state. The news is usually depressing, time consuming to gather, and often of too little import to warrant reporting. But still it must be covered...
Inevitably, the antidrug crusade is producing some ludicrous results. A best-selling toy in the U.S. is Madballs, a set of eight rubber balls adorned with gross names and faces. One of the more grotesque Madballs, depicting a creature whose skull has been split wide open, was called Crack Head. Fearful that this charming toy might be accused of glorifying drug use, the toymakers last month changed the name to Bash Brain...
...supersecret Air Force project, has long been the subject of gossip. Tom Clancy features it in his new best seller, Red Storm Rising, and one toymaker has gone so far as to produce a 12- in. model. Though the Air Force will not comment on reports that the plastic toy is 80% accurate, as its makers claim, sales have been high among the Lockheed workers in Southern California who have had a part in the project. Last week the status of the F-19 became a bit less murky. The Washington Post reported that about 50 of them are hidden...
...Lauren's headquarters suggests the backstage of a theater: cramped and slightly eccentric, with forest green walls and a bowl of M&M's on a table in the reception room. Lauren's personal office contains some of his favorite props: a wood-burning fireplace, a fleet of toy racing cars, family photographs and piles of fabric swatches. He often wears a studiedly scruffy uniform: a cotton work shirt, faded Levi's and well-worn cowboy boots. "This is who I am," he claims...