Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consumers and computer magazine editors put Polaroid to the test by heaping indignities on their disks. Staffers at one computer journal poured a hot-fudge sundae on theirs. Another publication sent Polaroid a floppy covered with mustard, catsup and relish. One disk had been used as a chew toy by a golden retriever. In all those cases, Polaroid was able to clean the disk or electronically transfer the user's work to fresh floppies. The only disk that was less than 100% salvageable was one that a user had sabotaged by riddling it with staples...
...Wanna Be's, such getups somehow suggest the '50s, now conceived on the evidence of old Marilyn Monroe movies to have been a quaint and fascinating though slightly tacky time, rich in flirtatious, pre-feminist sexuality. Although to her it's a joke, Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl, is a joke too damaging to laugh at. Somebody...
...TOY. About four years ago, I used to live in the East Village. I used to love hanging out at the Roxy with all the break dancers and graffiti artists and the deejays. Everybody had a tag name they would write on the wall like "Whiz Kid" or "Hi-Fi." The thing was to see how much you could "throw up" (get your name up) everywhere. It was a very territorial thing. One day I just thought of BOY TOY, and when I threw it up on a wall, everybody said they thought it was funny too. They understood...
...seduced by a sky that was taking an age to fade away and a few precious stones attached to the gas lamps which shone without illuminating-by a whole night blue and filled with whisperings, which brought summer to mind. And suddenly I was overcome by a kind of toy at the thought that I alive was there in that proud dead city...
...case, Mr. Steiner has quite misunderstood the ironies of the protest. It is ironic that while nearly 45 students who sat quietly on the second floor and studied the subject or apartheid in South Africa were addressed by Deans Epps and Toy, and Chief Johnson of the H.U.P.D., Mr. Steiner chose to remain on the first floor of the building, unseen. It is ironic, providing that Crimson had the correct quotation, that Mr. Steiner feels that President Reagan's policy-making regarding future investments in South Africa would have anything to do with Harvard's longstanding portfolio in South Africa...