Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial issues to be rushed to a vote, suffered through hours of filibustering by a pair of obscure freshmen. The ever patient Majority Leader, Howard Baker, seemed dazed by the unfolding disasters while his punchy staff joked that the White House had decided it wanted to impose a "toy tax" before Christmas. After almost 30 straight hours of throbbing confusion, the chaplain rose to offer a prayer. "Father in heaven, the Senators are very weary in body and mind," he said. "In such circumstances, heat tends to transcend light, minds function with less discernment and precision...
...hybrid: part book, part toy. In The Dwindling Party (Random House; $8.95), Edward Gorey's gothic farce matches the designs of his kidnaping bats and boat-swallowing moats. The very young may not get some of the puns at Hickyacket Hall, but the MacFizzet family, who disappear when the readers pull various tabs, provide hours of amusement even for children who have not yet worked their...
...just told you. I gave up toys. They're worthless," he snapped, gesturing at the elephant, whose trunk still clutched Lenny's tire chain. "It's kids like that that bug me--kids who never believed in me in the first place. That's how I got obliterated or forced out of the toy business anyway. All the kids were yapping about some guy who left toys in their stockings, so the unbelieving parents decided to leave presents on their own. The demand for the real article dropped to zero--some means of production are better if they...
Next week the autumn logjam will begin to break, as Hollywood releases the first of a promising mix of films. Three movies head the insiders' early line of likely hits: The Toy, a Richard Pryor comedy; Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman in drag; and 48 Hrs., an Odd Couple cop film with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine...
...such influences are melded into a wholly modernist idiom. Hodgkin does to the Indian miniature what Matisse did to Islamic decoration; the source is not simply quoted but transformed. The miniaturist's precision of edge and line is replaced by a fuzzy, affable kind of formal system-nursery-toy versions, almost, of the sphere, cube and cylinder, those intimidating Platonic solids of programmatic modernism. His pigment, however, has an extraordinary range of effect. His work sports in the transparency, density and sweet pastiness that only oil paint can give. Surfeited by color, twinkling with fields of dots (like enlarged...