Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sellers loved gadgets, too. He once owned a garage laid with 500 feet of model railroad track. He bought more than 50 cars in his day, and loved his Rolls-Royce as much as the next guy. His prized toy was a life-sized mechanical elephant...
...here in another year, what do I have to look forward to? Will I be able to find an apartment? No. Can I get married? That's a bit unrealistic without a home. What job will pay me enough to live on?" Says Manny Ender, 33, a toy exporter from Tel Aviv: "Even if you drive a taxi in America, at least you make enough for an apartment, entertainment and a visit to Israel once a year...
...Twenty years ago we could have run articles on anything from toy railroads to wild boars to American politics. Now every one of these subjects has a magazine...
...since Pope Julius ii commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling had the proclamation of a chief of state resulted in such a sunburst of high art. A troika of young film maker-theoreticians-Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko-seized the movie toy and remade it into a sophisticated machine that dazzled the world intelligentsia, even as it instructed the Russian proletariat. As long as the party hierarchy was amused too, all was well. But in 1924 Stalin rephrased the famous dictum, and his diaphanous threat holds to this day: "The cinema is the greatest means...
...instructed, the suburban housewife parked near the toy store in Van Nuys and waited. Soon an orange van drew up. "Chart 2," she mumbled to the driver; she was invited to join the van's eight other riders. In a few minutes, the vehicle rolled up to a warehouse. More passwords were exchanged, and the van's riders then blended with the 150 or so people already gathered inside. Promptly at 8 p.m., the doors were locked, and the host rose to address the guests...