Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American industry will step up the production of rungless ladders...
...last spring's fiery riots, Brixton was staging a fair to raise funds for a local, racially mixed school. Dressed in a turquoise coatdress and squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck, and a lapel button that said CHARLIE IS MY DARLING. The royal couple never carry money, so an aide had to slip Di and Charles...
...full lips, the dimple on the right cheek. They are all there, only smaller. Much, much smaller. For those who loved the movies (The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love) and bought the Calvins, it is now time for the next artistic level: the Brooke Shields doll. Beginning in April, LJN Toys will flood toy stores with some 2 million Barbie-size, $12 replicas of Brookie in a hot-pink sweaterdress, ribbed tights and white plastic cowboy boots. LJN paid Shields, 16, $1 million for the privilege, and she dutifully sat through several modeling sessions while the doll was fashioned. The first...
What you see is pretty blooming spectacular. From the first shot-a long track down a densely designed and populated Vegas street that leads to the travel agency window where Frannie (Teri Garr) looms like Kong over a toy Manhattan skyline-you are advised that One from the Heart means to set reality and artifice into felicitous collision. On the Zoetrope sound stages, Production Designer Dean Tavoularis has created a show-stopping amalgam of razzle and dazzle, sending skyrockets speckling over what looks like a mile-long Strip of surreal glitter. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro has lighted these sets in gloriously...
WALLY IS UNQUESTIONABLY the inferior of the pair when it comes to appearances. Short and stout, with balding, frizzy hair that reveals a large melon of a forehead, he sits in marked contrast to Andre--tall, angular, and handsome. Like a baby squeezing a bathtub toy, Andre can play on Wally, eliciting a sputtering high-pitched squeal...