Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrity in their midst and spoke approvingly of his violent act. Waitress Irene Wienckoski asked for his autograph, and Goetz responded with a cryptically high-toned message: "To Irene--To be trusted is a better compliment than to be loved." Across the street he stopped at a Toys "R" Us store to buy a toy fire engine, just as he did in December when he fled Manhattan, driving north through New England, before turning himself in to police in Concord, N.H. Dashing hopes that the mysterious fire engine might turn out to be a revelatory, memory-jogging "Rosebud...
...secretly a spirited young woman, contemplates marrying him. But in her berth she dreams vaguely of adventure, of discovering what she likes to call "the real India." Outside, the real India broods enigmatically, and we see the train from another of the subcontinent's perspectives, as a tiny toy almost lost at its feet. In the shadowy foreground of these shots loom India's temples and palaces, symbols of its several cultures and religions, of a history?a maddeningly complex reality?impenetrable to the passing stranger...
...policy. What is obvious is that science expands the frontier of our living conditions. What needs to be recognized is that science is an ethical frontier, rapidly outmoding our ways of making decisions. As a society, we are like a child with a powerful new set of hands--a toy about which we can neither recognize all the dangers involved, nor decide who gets to hold it.Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...brisk toy and board-game sales were set up, in part, by the decline and fall of the video game. Capricious young people rapidly cooled toward them in the fall of 1983, and retailers were stuck with huge oversupplies. At the same time, stores last Christmas were caught short of such traditional items as dolls, trucks and board games. Video-game retail sales this year are off sharply again, down 56% during the first nine months vs. the same period in 1983. Fueled partly by money that had previously been spent on expensive video games, sales of other kinds...
...Toy marketeers seem to have guessed right in determining what would sell. Fisher-Price, the toymaking subsidiary of Quaker Oats, teamed up with Kodak to produce a new child's camera that sells for $25 to $44. In its viewfinder is an indicator that shows a red flag if the child is holding the camera crooked. Fisher-Price has long made a play camera, but the one this year was its first foray into the real thing, and it is selling well...