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...looks harmless--a small lump of colored fur with a tiny protruding lightbulb. But Hug a Light, stacked ten deep in the Jordan Marsh toy department, makes every child (four or older) a deity...
Once, long ago, children rode rocking horses. Now, who knows why, the toy firms are marketing instead animals perched on top of a single huge spring. And the names--if an entire generation grows up riding Farley Frogs, the trouble may just be beginning...
...M.I.T., great labor has gone into creating a robot that can watch someone constructing an arrangement of toy blocks and then duplicate that arrangement. Engineers at Japan's Waseda University built a robot seven years ago that could see and hear and carry out spoken instructions, but, says Ichiro Kato, chairman of the graduate school of science and engineering, "it had the mentality of a child 1½ years old." Kato's lab is now building a more advanced model. Says Kato: "It will probably have the mentality of a five-year...
...bank's letters-of-credit department. Says she: "The department used to be chaos. One letter would get handled by four, five or six people. But with the new system, one person handles everything. I had no trouble adjusting. To me it was like a new toy...
...paper-plate disposability, piled high with ground round and too much ketchup. But class will tell, and Curtis has worked with the men at the head of the scare-picture class: John Carpenter, who directed her in both Halloween and The Fog, and Cinematographer John Alcott, who makes this toy locomotive of a film look as sleek and eerie as the ghost of the Twentieth Century Limited. Curtis brings her own class to the genre, though one wonders where her career will lead her next. Into an ominous shower stall? Like mother, like daughter, bless...