Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groomed trail, half an hour in the lift line with several hundred nice people, then up and down again: the alpine skier turns himself into a yo-yo. And after the fifth or tenth chug around the splendidly scenic cross-country circuit, the Nordic skier can feel like a toy train...
Rambo delivers the conclusive cultural death blow, once more reducing to cliche the well-worn notion that violence on TV and in the movie theatre is bad for kids. Sly's Rambo is a bull in the china shop of a young child's mind. Naturally, toy stores are packed with Rambo toys. In the spring, Coleco will release its Rambo product line, coinciding nicely with the premiere of the Rambo Saturday morning cartoon series. The big screen, it seems, is only the beginning...
...just an aspiring piglet in the chorus line and her colleague a former tadpole. But even though the amphibian has since made it big in TV and films like The Muppets Take Manhattan, as well as star turns in the toy department, he hasn't forgotten his lily-pond roots. Next month Muppet Creator Jim Henson and more than 200 of Kermit's friends are getting together to toast America's best-known frog on his 30th birthday. Called The Muppets, a Celebration of 30 Years, the one-hour CBS special will feature Fozzie Bear as master of ceremonies...
...plight, post-Turner, shows how escaping a raider can still leave a company seriously wounded. To evade Turner, CBS spent some $1 billion to buy back 20% of its shares. Now the company is selling profitable TV affiliates and its toy division to repay its debt. To further cut costs, CBS fired 74 news-division employees in a single "Thursday massacre" and offered early retirement to 2,000 people...
...North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...