Word: toying
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...simple. The opening half is a solo song cycle about a young Englishwoman (Bernadette Peters) who comes to the U.S. to pursue romance, glamour and a hard-nosed career as a hat designer. At first she is abused by men who exploit her, or treat her as another expensive toy, or shy away from commitment. Then she treats a man that way, condemns herself for it and vows to recapture her lost innocence...
...with a toy poodle on a leash, a dog not much bigger than the word dog, hollered, "Hey, Mr. Underwood, where you want me to bury this...
...most surprising hit of the summer remains, thankfully, COCOON (Sack Copley Place). In a year where the average aged screen star probably wouldn't get served at the Metro, this touching movie shows, for a change, that not all that is heart-warming must fit on a toy shelf for Christmas shoppers. Even Dewitt gets his grandparents the old-fashioned way: he gets born with them. No plot line, no acting critique for this one, just see it yourself...
...Civil War was fought to expunge the American original sin (slavery) and to save the dream and the power. It was all of Homer and Shakespeare come to the New World. It was the American discovery of tragedy, and of modern death, proceeding from the jaunty, clumsy toy soldiering of First Bull Run to Sherman's scorched earth and Grant's trench slaughter, which were a moral preview of the 20th century...
...yesterday took over as administrative dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, kept his large University Hall office immaculate enough to prominently display several sets of toy trains, assorted pieces of junk from the renovations to Winthrop House, and bluebooks detailing the entire history of the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...