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Troubled Coleco is cashing in big on the year's hottest toy...
Consumers are showing a renewed taste for extravagance. Among the most popular items are high-fashion clothes and high-tech gadgetry. Shoppers are buying Oriental rugs, videocassette recorders, fur-tipped sweaters, microwave ovens and lots of costume jewelry. In toy departments, traditional and huggable products are upstaging video games. This year's hits: Coleco's pudgy Cabbage Patch Kids (about $35) and Kenner's fuzzy Care Bears (about $23). Military toys like Hasbro's G.I. Joe have also made a comeback...
...studies for the mechanical bird in Le Rossignol, for instance, the surprise of its actual intrusion on the stage of the Met, a blazing vermilion-and-gilt apparition in that gauzy, lyric ambiance of K'ang-Hsi porcelain blue? The drawing just looks like a canary on a toy red cart. Yet ingenuity can bridge many gaps, and Hockney is nothing if not ingenious...
...elder statesman: "Boy George is our anchor. You're never going to be able to spot a Culture Club record by just the music. It will be George's voice that identifies us." The voice is an excellent instrument, gliding over notes like a Slinky toy that springs downstairs on its own power. As the saloon singers of an older generation might have put it, the kid's got a great set of pipes...
...because it permitted him to deal with a lifelong passion. "I've been fascinated by communications ever since I was a kid with two tin cans and a taut string between them," he says. "When I was ten, I got my own $10.95 telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses." DeMott soon graduated to more complicated gadgets, setting up telegraph keys with a teen-age friend and building electronic devices from six Heath-kits, including his own ham radio rig, stereo and FM tuner. More recently he installed cordless telephones...