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...July 31, Toy Maker...
...Harry may shoot or squash or harpoon the odd malefactor. He may find fellowship with Patricia Clarkson, a Sondra Locke look-alike who plays a prying TV reporter. And he does get to drive in the big chase scene, in which a remote-controlled toy car with explosives attached hounds Harry through the town's roller-coaster streets. True Californians, he and his partner never think to get out and run for cover. But then, this picture's soul is located 400 miles south, in the Los Angeles movie industry, where metaphorical backstabbing is business as usual...
...shorts, soft-core porno and previews for grade-Z melodramas ("Terrifying realism! Claws at your unbelieving mind!"). The Video Doll Shoppe, from the New York City-based Video Resources, is a compilation of doll commercials from the 1950s and '60s, including a gloriously dopey promotional film from the Ideal Toy Corp. describing the invention and manufacture of Betsy Wetsy...
...council will probably not even have a black majority, with most of the 36 seats taken by white, Asian and "colored" officials who are already part of the structure of apartheid. Most prominent blacks have sworn not to sit in the new assembly, which some have called a toy telephone. Said Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu black homeland: "Black leaders have long passed the point in history where they can be used as rubber stamps for the real intentions of the country's white political leadership...
...often, a father cleaning his handgun accidentally fires it on his four-year-old son, or a six-year-old girl thinks the weapon is a toy and ends up killing her two-year-old brother and becoming permanently scarred by the experience. Too often, when a handgun is in the vicinity, a jilted boyfriend takes his frustration out on his ex-girlfriend, or on himself...