Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...device is also sometimes called the Hungarian Horror, since it can induce temporary dementia in otherwise balanced citizens. It has become, in the words of a senior buyer for FAO Schwarz, the Manhattan toy emporium, "the world's most asked-for plaything." It can also be an obsession, an infuriation and an invitation to insomnia, distracting workers from their jobs, students from their theses, even lovers from love. Scholars compare it to Sam Loyd's puzzle, an 1873 American invention that was said to have driven 1,500 people to insanity...
Accompanied by his lawyer, Robert surrendered to the FBI and was charged last week with armed robbery. Robert's lawyer, Mel Sachs, contends that the gun was a toy, and the robbery merely a game that went too far. Says Sachs: "He's not Public Enemy No. 1. He's a nine-year-old who was playing in the bank, and the money was handed over to him. He is a victim of the impact of television." If Robert had not given himself up, he might have escaped detection entirely...
Most cumbersome ideological baggage for a light comedy: Dupler's employer is a supermarket chain called UltraSave (U.S., get it?), whose aisles are patrolled by emasculated wimps and homicidal amazons, where the security guard is trigger-happy and a toy helicopter strafes and devastates the store...
...banquet fit for a movie king: white and green pasta, chicken with mozzarella and prosciutto, strawberries dipped in chocolate, vintage wine. Francis Ford Coppola, 41, the director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, had invited 100 journalists to inspect the most elaborate toy a movie-mad boy could hope to own: Zoetrope Studios, the 10½-acre Hollywood production lot he bought early in 1980 to make his own films and those of fiercely loyal independent moviemakers he has invited to join him. This, he hoped, would be the studio of the future, an artistic Arcadia with nine sound...
When the trial began three years ago, the family's involvement grew, as the two remaining children-William, 30, and Mary, 23-chauffeured witnesses and fetched documents. At center stage, their feisty father, using a Styrofoam model of the scene complete with toy cars, stressed numerous inconsistencies in the officers' testimony. He discredited the meager evidence that Bowden had been carrying a gun. He produced as a witness a reporter who, having ridden with the officers and listened to the episode while lying on the floor of their car, testified that there had been no warning shouts. Finally...