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Senior Editor Jose Ferrer, who edited the toys stories, claims he was too busy to play, but he acknowledges that he would like to try a newfangled gun called Lazer Tag: "I was also intrigued by one toy, Spacewarp, which looks like a high-toned version of a marble game I used to love." When he was a boy, recalls Ferrer, toys were less exotic. He and his brother constructed raceways from blocks for marbles to slide down, and would play with them for hours, until their sister toddled in and knocked everything over...
...smashes his head against the concrete walls of propriety. Then he meets Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), a pug- faced groupie from a Philadelphia suburb, and starts living up to his name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud. And squalid Nancy was plenty eager to share his psychopathy. Before long he was killing her loudly with his song: she died, apparently...
...they can pour their profits into research and development. In the meantime, other discounters, like the Koreans, are rushing into the U.S. market to fill the discount gap. "I'm meeting with a group from Seoul tomorrow. Their prices will be better," says Donald Kingsborough, chairman of a California toy company, Worlds of Wonder, that uses a high volume of chips in products like Teddy Ruxpin, the talking bear...
...politics is that on the surface, the two forms of expression seem antipodal not only in tone and structure but in the pictures of mind they convey. The poet is a vague and hazy animal, the politician hunched forward like a cat. What one would devour, the other would toy with in the air, angling the world in his paws so as to know not the world itself but the light-play on the world...
...explored a different genre. One book was, in her view, a "political romance," another concerned a Maine woman attacked by ruffians, and the third was an old- fashioned love story. King's sun-washed study, set in a remodeled stable loft, has a hidden stairway leading down to a toy-cluttered indoor swimming pool with a vaulted gothic-style ceiling. Tabitha calls it the Church of the Poisoned Mind. The children drift in and out frequently. Naomi, 16, comes by dressed in a Mickey Mouse T shirt and shorts, a departure from the standard King uniform of work shirt...