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...they even fly coke in from a ship in one of those remote-controlled toy planes and land it on a bayshore condo...
...story. The adventure involves Kevin, a young, modern-age Briton (not so much played as walked through by unknown Craig Warnock), whose parents ive in subservience to hundreds of whirring, useless kitchen apparati and sit transfixed as horrific gameshows prance across the T.V. Kevin retreats to his room, amidst toy soldiers, cardboard castles, and plastic spaceships, reading about Agamemnon's methods of brutality. Not simply another middle-aged prepubescent a la Justin Henry and Gary Coleman, he is a real kid, untainted and imaginative. Warnock's lack of acting ability adds to Kevin's believability...
Barone started his career as a self-described "Information junkie" during his childhood in the Detroit suburbs. Census figures, he says, were a favorite toy. From Cranbrook prep school, he went to Harvard, wrote occasionally for The Crimson's editorial board and graduated magna cum laude in 1966. He passed through Harvard Law School three years later and then spent two years clerking for a federal judge in Detroit. But the information bug never left him. And the idea of the Almanac proved irresistible. "It's the sort of thing I always wanted to read, so I wrote...
...self-proclaimed freedom fighters, terrorists and fanatics and, alas, the children whose legacy it is to be born into a world of arms. One of the 20th century's enduring images may be that of a sad-eyed adolescent cuddling an automatic rifle as if it were a toy...
Electronic games, at first turned out mainly for teenagers, have become elaborately complicated to appeal to adults. At least one toymaker, Mattel, is now making a home computer in an attempt to make up for lost toy sales in the downsize baby market...