Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rolling down the runway, the little twin-engine jet looked like any rich man's weekend toy, but as it picked up speed over the California airstrip and began climbing, the craft underwent a bizarre and visually unsettling transformation. Its wing began slowly to swing around-its right half angling forward in the direction of flight, the left back...
Among the gifts from Hollywood this past Christmas were lavishly illustrated coffee-table movies, self-exploding toy soldiers and inspirational samplers. Neighbors, at least and at most, is different: a 95-minute act of aggravated assault on the moviegoer (battery included...
...only sign of destruction in Manara, where everything else seems to flourish. Red flowers glow in dark green bushes. Babies in colorful sun hats waddle in the playground where the cab of an old truck has been painted yellow and pink and made into a toy. The older children use the pool. From the water they may look down into a valley full of plums and avocados...
...investigative reporter," says Horowitz, 43, a former NBC News correspondent. "Our show is basically the opposite end of what they do on Madison Avenue. Fewer and fewer people believe commercials-with good reason." The Tonka Toy Co. ran an ad that showed one of its toy trucks surviving a stomping by an elephant. Horowitz got his own Tonka and submitted it to pachyderm pummeling at the Los Angeles Zoo. When the vehicle was removed from the cage, it was crushed flatter than a shadow...
...last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers for a $100 wicker basket holding only a bottle of champagne, a toy dog and a small package of chocolates...