Word: toying
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...seduced by a sky that was taking an age to fade away and a few precious stones attached to the gas lamps which shone without illuminating-by a whole night blue and filled with whisperings, which brought summer to mind. And suddenly I was overcome by a kind of toy at the thought that I alive was there in that proud dead city...
...case, Mr. Steiner has quite misunderstood the ironies of the protest. It is ironic that while nearly 45 students who sat quietly on the second floor and studied the subject or apartheid in South Africa were addressed by Deans Epps and Toy, and Chief Johnson of the H.U.P.D., Mr. Steiner chose to remain on the first floor of the building, unseen. It is ironic, providing that Crimson had the correct quotation, that Mr. Steiner feels that President Reagan's policy-making regarding future investments in South Africa would have anything to do with Harvard's longstanding portfolio in South Africa...
...blue and retrimmed in Connolly English magnolia leather throughout. He had a bar, television and telephone installed. The total price came to $92,000, in contrast to a U.S. price of God knows what. Normally he would have paid $850 for shipment to Los Angeles, but he wanted his toy in a hurry, so he had it air-freighted for $3,000. And worth every penny, he chortled to his tax accountant...
...pages, 99 too many, describing the seamier side of Lauren's double life. Her work after hours takes her into the nighttime dens of London's healthy Arabs and the hotel rooms of travelling businessmen, some of whom are merely looking for companionship others for an erotic toy. Theroux details her daily outline, a seven mile run around Hyde Park in the morning, seminars and papers at the institute, and Karim or Salim at night, while the reader can't help but wonder when this girl is going to get some sleep...
...them play/ Only boys that save their pennies/ Make my rainy day") are like an endless series of come-ons, all promise and no follow-through. Madonna's whole image, in fact, is like a finger-flip to feminists and earnest liberals. BOY TOY, says one of her most famous accessories, a belt buckle that competes for body space with various pieces of sacred jewelry - crucifixes, rosaries - that seem to be advertising some unholy sacrament...