Word: toye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether or not to take Brad Renfro's case -- and pressed "pause" again...
Last year's shiny silver dollar has become this season's lump of coal. The toy craze inspired by the Steven Spielberg movie has run its course, analysts say. "It was a promotional product line and, like all of them, it had a limited lifespan...
Sure, some parents are lining up at dawn to buy those scarce white Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Golden Jubilee Barbies, but you can find lots of presents without any hassle at all. In the toy industry, these are known fondly as "stiffs." Some examples...
...When Brazil won the World Cup, Inman went crazy," recalls Sandy Ruben, owner of yuppie toy store Sandy and Son's. "People were all over the streets, everybody was applauding and parading. The police were everywhere, but it was in a positive way. For weeks afterwards, every Sunday there would be parades of cars honking and people would wave Brazilian flags. It was really terrific...
...well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison d'etre here, and the two actresses toy with it deliciously. Nevertheless, the material is simply not weighty enough to sustain the nearly 2 1/2 hrs. The words are beautiful, but the subject matter -- auto trips, Virginia's health, contemporaries unknown to us -- becomes tedious...