Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...software business. Late last year McKesson, the drug and healthcare giant (1983 sales: $4 billion), acquired a half interest in SKU, a software distributor. Both CBS and Warner Communications have started software units. Also investigating or developing their own software are publishing nouses (Simon & Schuster and Random House), toy firms (Fisher-Price and Parker Bros.) and movie companies (United Artists, MCA, Walt Disney and Lucasfilm). But small firms seem to do best in the innovative world of applications programs. Cautions Software Publishing's Fred Gibbons, who runs one of the fastest-growing companies: "Being big does not help...
...with undamaged household articles sticking out incongruously. Two rescue workers diverted themselves from the grim task of searching through the debris for bodies by staging an impromptu open-air musicale. One weary young man sat down at an undamaged piano and picked out a tune; a second snatched a toy trumpet from the wreckage of a nearby house and tooted an accompaniment...
...time?" has been the query of cross-country phone-ins for the past year. But the enigmatic Trudeau remained elusive to the end, waiting for the day of leap year to toy with Canadian mind and media. Adding insult to insult, he announced his decision by letter and bypassed the press he so disdains...
...went out of service decades ago. But the scale is all wrong: the plane is too big for the boat, and it looks more like an effigy stuck to the painting. In fact, Morley did paint it from a tin airplane, picked from his vast collection of models and toys. A U-boat, suspended beneath the painted sea on painted sticks, is also done from a toy. As a document of catastrophe, the scene is far from believable, but its curious power as an image comes partly from the sheer blatancy of its fiction. The fact that the plane...
When Morley is spinning his fables around a core of imagery that the viewer cannot quite grasp, his real successes occur. A painting like Underneath the Lemon Tree, 1981, cannot be fully read. One knows it is about aggression: Morley's toy soldiers again, two ancient Egyptians and a modern member of the Horse Guards, plus a scrawled, emblematic castle. But what are they doing in the green space that is Morley's sign for paradise? The probable answer is that they are there because they are in the artist; the combinations of aggro-and-bother with glimpses...