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...ignore that. But speaking of tired concepts, how about SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE (Sack Copley)? Dudley Moore plays the Elf who wanted to sell out Santa, and John Lithgow is the evil Toy Manufacturer who wants to get the goods before they hit the sleigh route. Moore and Lithgow put in some agile performances, but the lines just aren't there--not even Moore and Lithgow can improv their way through this debacle...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Clues to Dewitt | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...used the "World's Longest Urinal." As I was doing my thing along with 200 other people (mostly men), a bathtub toy floated by in front of me. Someone reached down to grab it but then had second thoughts and retracted...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Running on Empty | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...magazines to counter the "literary pogrom against me." The sad fact is that this wheedling self-inflation is unnecessary. Cosell was a tough-minded and honest salesman who could persuade sports fans to buy just about anything. As his book proves, he just stayed too long in the toy department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 28, 1985 | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Three Oranges that premiered at the New York City Opera last month, has brilliantly re-created his fable for the stage, giving it a disarming, storybook two-dimensionality. There is the wolf-suited Max (Soprano Karen Beardsley), a youthful holy terror who hangs his Teddy bear and decapitates his toy soldiers. There is Max's snug bedroom, where he is commanded to repair without supper after his mother (Mezzo Mary King) loses patience with his antics. Just as in the book, the room blossoms into an enchanted forest and is, in turn, transformed into a broad ocean upon which floats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mastering the Wild Things | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...Treasury's instructions. Hunched over a circular desk crowded with jangling phones, they buy and sell dollars at U.S. banks while glancing regularly at overhead monitors that flash currency transactions. "The Fed people just love intervening," says a former Treasury official. "They're like little kids with a new toy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Mighty Dollar | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

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