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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Trade Commission voted Wednesday to file antitrust charges against toy retail giant Toys R Us. The commission accuses the company of "using its market power to keep toy prices higher." Regulators charge that Toys R Us keeps prices up by using its size to pressure toy manufacturers not to sell to rival retailers. Manufacturers say the company will not buy products carried by large warehouse clubs, in effect using the clout of a company that accounts for more than one-fifth of the $19-billion-a-year U.S. toy business to keep suppliers selling only...
They are. Hours after Super Mario 64 arrived in Seattle, TIME correspondent David S. Jackson took it and several other games for a test run. Playing Mario 64, he reports, is like jumping inside the movie Toy Story. The plot line, something about a princess and a bad guy named Bowser, is, as always, almost irrelevant. What matters is that the Silicon Graphics chip-fueled Nintendo 64 puts the fastest, smoothest game action yet attainable via joystick at the service of equally virtuoso motion. Mario runs, flies, swims, dodges and flips his way past a bewildering welter of walls, ramps...
Police initially believed the tragedy grew out of a theft. Under questioning, the boys tearfully admitted entering the Bermudez family's apartment to steal a Big Wheel-style tricycle. While searching for the toy, they discovered the infant and, for no apparent reason, beat him hard enough to fracture his skull and cause severe internal bleeding. Then they dropped him on the bed and fled with the tricycle. Maria Bermudez, who was babysitting her step-brother, discovered his bruised and limp body when she came out of the bathroom...
...Minnesota-based Grand Casinos firm. Locals dubbed the enterprise the Stupak Stump and the Tower of Bobel. But say this about the Stratosphere: the man did it. In time it may fly or fall; today it is the instant dominant Vegas symbol. The Stratosphere could be Stupak's Tinker Toy gift to the gaming industry, or it could be the ultimate sardonic gesture--a giant metallic finger to those who have doubted...
...postmodern America has become--the stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade, 30 ft. long and including hundreds of figures, from life-size horses to tiny toy Indians and frogs, wants to impress you so much it becomes a fulsome, preachy bore...