Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barbie comes with "moveable hips" and Oriental Barbie invites youngsters to visit the "exotic" (what else?) East with her. They seem a small sideline of the Barbie empire, though; it is still the Barbie expressing good old American values that take up more display space than any other single toy...
After all, there was Lego's "Fabuland" to play with. The company that once brought children a challenging construction toy now markets sets "with special large components for fast and easy construction." And most of the pieces are too big to put in your mouth...
Inevitably, the popularity of Rubik's Cube has encouraged rip-offs as well as spinoffs. Counterfeit versions are available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's brainteaser, has sued more than 20 American companies for importing fake cubes from such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong...
...anywhere from $32 million to $57 million as producer, director, co-author and star of a 3-hr. 20-min. movie about a nearly forgotten American Communist and his troubled, tempestuous wife Louise Bryant. These Reeds never pretend to be ordinary people; this Reds boasts not a single mechanical toy as a major character. Reed's life said this: Not only can you hop the express train of history, you can help steer it into a new age. With Reds Beatty says: I'm not just a movie star, a minimogul, a hot gossip item...
...most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grâce. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; instinctively cats do not always relate killing with the need to eat. When they finally do away with a mouse, it is with Darwinian perfection. The cat's teeth are so arranged...