Word: toye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks like a 9-in. cloth-covered ruler, but a quick downward flick will send it curling around your wrist. And before you can say Slap Wrap, you are wearing the newest preteen craze. The bracelet's manufacturer, Connecticut- based Main Street Toy, sells nearly 500,000 a week (retail price...
...case, because women's prisons, like those for men, are often all but inaccessible by public transportation. When children do manage to get there, the sessions can be heartrending. Some facilities, including the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution at Hardwick, where Rachals is housed, have created bright, toy-filled visiting rooms, but more often the quarters are grim and frightening. In Chicago's Cook County jail, a thick glass pane separates family visitors from prisoners. "It's a terrifying thing for a child to reach out and try to touch his mother, and find out he can't," says Gail...
...hear it before you see it. Clacker. Klickstick. Kabanger. No matter what you call it, it's the most ubiquitous and onomatopoetic toy in 20 years. That's how long ago the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the original clackers, which were often made of ceramic. Connected by ropes, they sometimes shattered on impact. But the 1990s model is made entirely of plastic and is apparently harmless -- except to the sanity of adults. (Retail prices: $1.50 to $5.) One company to thank for this is Classic Items of Chicago. It has sold 2.5 million of its version, the Klika, since...
...Drives-a-truck" is a name Ray says she adopted one night when she was waiting for a group of friends and began playing with a toy Tonka truck to pass the time...
...creators of network shows are getting a bit more leeway to toy with style as well. Characters on several series talk directly to the camera or convey their thoughts as ironic commentary on the action. Fantasy sequences and playfully exaggerated camerawork abound. Even routine sitcoms are striving for little stylistic flourishes. NBC's American Dreamer, starring Robert Urich as a newspaper columnist raising two kids, features Our Town-style narration. Working It Out, another NBC sitcom, with Jane Curtin and Stephen Collins as divorced people who meet cute at a cooking class, chronicles the start of their relationship in flashbacks...