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...love for the piano was intense, but he soon discovered an even greater love: opera. Jimmy would listen to recordings, singing the parts and conducting from the score. His mother, who had been a Broadway actress, bought him a miniature stage, where he put on his own productions using toy tables and chairs as props. During the summers, he attended the performances of the Cincinnati Opera, held then on the grounds of the local zoo, clutching his grandmother's long knitting needle as a make-believe baton...
...Quartermaine is concerned, these are like whispers in the anteroom of his mind. The thunderclap comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...
...came across Glover walking with his stepfather in a section of Queens. Thinking the pair were his suspects, Shea leaped from an unmarked car. He was wearing street clothes and did not identify himself. Shea fired when the 10-year-old raised what turned out to be a plastic toy gun. The officer was acquitted in court, but an internal police tribunal expelled him from the force...
Timex Sinclair 1000 ($99). This tiny toy is good for dipping one's toes into the micro revolution and not much more. It will play video games with boxy, black-and-white graphics and speaks only one language: BASIC. A buttonless "membrane" keyboard is well designed for learning the fundamentals of computer programming, but for written work it is a step down from the old typewriter. With 600,000 sold in 1982 alone, there is sure to be more software on the shelves soon. A more powerful model that speaks child-oriented Logo is expected out this spring...
...computer of the year. Introduced in August 1981, nearly 200,000 were shipped in the past twelve months, winning it 17% of the market for mid-range machines. Already 1,000 programs are available for the PC, including games. Though IBM discourages using its machine as a toy (it charges $300 extra for color graphics), software programmers are busily translating all manner of playtime activities...