Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hustlers park on the two main roads just past the track, hawking hats and T-Shirts, cotton candy, corn dogs, tacos, pizza and Coke, belt buckles, water pistols, megaphones, toy cars, checkered flags, souvenir plates and shot glasses, necklaces, feathers, earrings and pennants. Almost everyone takes a piece of the race home with them...
...questions from customers around the country about problems with its line of home appliances. In Fort Washington, Pa., the Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. employs a battery of researchers to handle 800-number telephone queries from parents on a variety of child health-care matters. In Hawthorne, Calif., the Mattel toy company maintains a staff of telephone representatives to advise customers on the operation of the company's toys.and electronic games. In Whippany, N.J., Channel Home Centers, a 91-store hardware chain, offers home repair and fix-it advice from "Dr. Wally Barnett," whose role is played by a Channel...
...Elliott, E.T. is everything a boy could want: a toy, a pet, a jolly Space Invader of a video game - most of all, a friend whose feelings become his own. To Gertie, E.T. is a youngest sibling's most welcome addition: someone even smaller than she, an infant brother she can dress up as a bag lady and even teach to speak. E.T. is remarkably adaptable and wonderfully funny in his adventure on earth. Left alone in the house, he toddles around like a middle-aged ironworker on a weekend without the wife, his potbelly peeking...
What is more, at a cost of about $1.5 million, he was cheap. As Spielberg points out, Marlon Brando gets about three times as much. And E.T. will earn his keep with the usual spinoffs: candy, dolls, T shirts, an alarm clock, a toy game to be made by Texas Instruments, whose Speak & Spell game is part of the device E.T. makes to re-establish contact with his spaceship. "Phone home," the little lost spaceman learns to say plaintively, and this dictates the single TV commercial that Spielberg will allow him to make. Naturally, it will be for the Bell...
...collected after the shooting by FBI agents from Hinckley's room at Washington's Park Central Hotel and at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., will prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books...