Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue and retrimmed in Connolly English magnolia leather throughout. He had a bar, television and telephone installed. The total price came to $92,000, in contrast to a U.S. price of God knows what. Normally he would have paid $850 for shipment to Los Angeles, but he wanted his toy in a hurry, so he had it air-freighted for $3,000. And worth every penny, he chortled to his tax accountant...
...pages, 99 too many, describing the seamier side of Lauren's double life. Her work after hours takes her into the nighttime dens of London's healthy Arabs and the hotel rooms of travelling businessmen, some of whom are merely looking for companionship others for an erotic toy. Theroux details her daily outline, a seven mile run around Hyde Park in the morning, seminars and papers at the institute, and Karim or Salim at night, while the reader can't help but wonder when this girl is going to get some sleep...
...them play/ Only boys that save their pennies/ Make my rainy day") are like an endless series of come-ons, all promise and no follow-through. Madonna's whole image, in fact, is like a finger-flip to feminists and earnest liberals. BOY TOY, says one of her most famous accessories, a belt buckle that competes for body space with various pieces of sacred jewelry - crucifixes, rosaries - that seem to be advertising some unholy sacrament...
...didn't. He never caught for anyone. By his own admission, Poet Donald Hall (Kicking the Leaves, The Toy Bone), is the nonpareil indoorsman. In school, when he went out for the baseball team, "they didn't cut me, they just laughed at me." He even dropped fly balls in the stands. Yet he kept up with the sport, attracted by "an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons...
...some of the dancing is truly funny. The Busby Berkeley extravaganzas are a real joy, screaming with a "camera-as-new-toy" aestheticism. The footage from the "Stone Age," the early years of dance on film, features clumsy chorus lines whose tubby legs bespeak better cooking than choreography. Clowning aside, That's Dancing includes a superb dance by Eleanor Powell, the greatest female tapper ever who, because of her less-than-mediocre acting, never enjoyed the popular fame her footwork deserved. On the floor, she is simply astonishing. Another inclusion oft-neglected elsewhere is the Nicholas Brothers' rubber-legged vaudeville...