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...first, kids treated Sesame Street like the yellow brick road. Its heavy stress of cooperation over competition, its amalgam of the wholly familiar and the totally exotic were irresistible. It was only grownups who expressed doubts. And who could blame them? For openers, the Street looks as if a toy truck had overturned in Harlem. There is no Disneyesque nostalgia for the inaccessible past. The place is in the unavoidable present; the clothing of the cast is well worn, the umber colors and grit of inner-city life are vital components of the show. Some other main ingredients...
Words are at the childlike core of Alice in Wonderland, and it is heartening that they have been honored in this production. Words are a child's grandest toy. They are also his first mystery. Even before he understands them, he puts them together and takes them apart. He pops pieces of them into his mouth, and spits them out in odd shapes. It is a profound form of play, for it is the only tool a child is given with which to comprehend a world in which he coexists without really belonging -the world of adults...
...Tops exemplifies one type of film done by Charles and Ray Eames, the toy films. These films are "purely visual and musical," said Eames. In their previous toy films, Charles and Ray Eames explored the world of toy trains, bread, or even soap flowing over blacktop. When the making of bread was the topic for a film presentation at UCLA in 1953, they added smells of freshly baked bread to the images and sounds on the screen...
Through their toy films, the Eameses have examined everyday objects by illustrating the objects' characteristics; tops are to be spun, not to sit on the shelf. So for seven minutes the audience delights in watching whirling tops of different colors and nationalities. A snow-flake top from India splits and becomes five tops spinning at once. There is no narration; a musical score anticipates the spinning function found even in a jack or thumbtack...
...said the rape occurred Tuesday night in an off-campus dormitory as other residents attended a meeting in the house. A man, armed with either a real or toy gun, forced his way into the dormitory and raped a student not at the meeting...