Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...widespread. Many of its officers are not above currying favor with their superiors and sometimes compound their mistakes by trying to cover them up. According to Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, this most secretive of organizations has had its share of minor security lapses. An angry old woman searching for a toy store located across the street was once discovered roaming through the ground floor of the KGB building. In an incident that must have left Andropov red-faced, a distinguished group of guests who had come to confer with the KGB chief discovered on leaving his office that all their elegant...
...mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless man endlessly tried to recapture a youthful sense of wonder; almost all his works blink out at the world as if they were seeing it for the first time. Yet when he could tear himself away from toy theaters and critiques about "The Ethics of Elfland," he could toss off mature, insightful analyses of Browning and Dickens, marred primarily by their inaccurate quotes (he was too lazy to look up the original passages...
...Marieleen." A line of Monroe dolls planned by a New York City manufacturer will include a $6,000, 16-in. porcelain model that is described as a replica of the star, with a fur coat and diamond earrings. It will make its debut next month at the American Toy Fair in New York. Last week, "Remember Marilyn" shops at Bloomingdale's New York-area department stores began offering a line of Monroe-inspired blouses, sweaters and tight pants. Says Bloomingdale's Vice President Kal Ruttenstein: "The '50s are a source of inspiration to young people. Kids think...
...love for the piano was intense, but he soon discovered an even greater love: opera. Jimmy would listen to recordings, singing the parts and conducting from the score. His mother, who had been a Broadway actress, bought him a miniature stage, where he put on his own productions using toy tables and chairs as props. During the summers, he attended the performances of the Cincinnati Opera, held then on the grounds of the local zoo, clutching his grandmother's long knitting needle as a make-believe baton...
...Quartermaine is concerned, these are like whispers in the anteroom of his mind. The thunderclap comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...