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...Huffingtons relieve themselves of the stress of politics with Saturday Night Live-type skits for their friends, in which they mock Feinstein. Says Arianna: "We had her pulling toy levers, saying, 'There crime goes down; there unemployment goes down.' " Then someone mimics a grumpy judge in a courtroom, "Oh, let me see, what kind of race are you? Oh, you're African American. We are not going to sentence you. Our list is already full." The latter refers to Feinstein's hope of finding a way to ensure that convicted blacks aren't sentenced to death in numbers disproportionate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Huffingtons Be Stopped? | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Kuwaiti religious official brands busty toy as moral threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Sep. 12, 1994 | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop. To send up a rocket, a child must find a way to light the fuse. One possibility: using a magnifying glass to focus light rays. Budding authors can use Storybook Weaver, from Minnesota Educational Computing Corp., to create adventure tales. After clicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Babes in Byteland | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...also nothing extraordinary. He plays the recently widowed Manny Singer who is busily trying to piece his life back together after his wife's death. Symbolic of the glazed-over, plastic, "Leave It to Beaver"-esque tone of this film, Manny Singer writes the music and lyrics for toy company advertisements. Perhaps you've always wondered who did this sort of thing, but the 1950,s setting makes this film cheesy, alleviating the more apparent, and perhaps interesting, struggle for racial equality and the problems involved with cross-racial love...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Oh, 'Corrina, Corrina,' Why Can't You Be True? | 8/19/1994 | See Source »

...what's coming. Barich ages another 25 years and his marriage takes sick, as the state suffers severe economic megrims and rattles with real earthquakes, not toy ones, and realists among its population head for Oregon, where they are cordially requested to go away. Travel writing for such a pilgrim, over such terrain, is not going be a record of lotuses eaten and pretty girls embraced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Lotus Land No More | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

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