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Ismail Cimen is the most famous boy in the world just now. The five-year-old sits in his hospital bed in Istanbul, watching the procession of toy-bearing journalists from all over the world who have come to hear his tale. He is the last living soul to be plucked from the destruction of the Aug. 17 earthquake, a boy buried so long that his uncle had prepared a grave for him. Says his sister Aysa, 18: "He was born on June 12, but his real birthday is the day they pulled...
Last night my daughter woke up at 4 a.m. in high spirits and yelled at us until we took her downstairs to the kitchen. She dug into her toy basket and got out her favorite doll, which laughs when you whack it, a perverse invention indeed. My daughter walked the floor with this doll, as if trying to put it to sleep, and my wife and I sat like a couple of refugees and thought blank thoughts and longed for our bed. And then my wife went upstairs and discovered...
...something so horrible and despicable that it has to end," Gallegly said of films such as Vicious in Las Vegas and Mistress Di: Princess of Death. One site, perhaps anticipating a crackdown, has already moved on to a new fetish: a woman sitting on a Sony Walkman and a toy...
...horrible and despicable that it has to end," Gallegly said of films such as "Vicious in Las Vegas" and "Mistress Di: Princess of Death." One web site, perhaps anticipating a crackdown, has already moved on to a new fetish: a woman sitting on a Sony Walkman and a toy...
Part of it is pure nostalgia. At the height of scooter mania in the 1950s, the sleek, steel-framed bikes were symbols of romantic escapism. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn putted through Rome on a Vespa in Roman Holiday; it was a favorite toy of Hollywood's elite, including Gary Cooper and Jayne Mansfield. In 1960s England, while big, grease-sputtering Harleys were ridden by leather-clad Rockers, elegant Vespas were the signature of their archrivals--and regular rumble opponents--the fashionable Mods...