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...Shalimar/ Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far?") while she somehow makes her harp sound like a bedspring banged with a coal scuttle. Before long teeny Tony, her stepson and heir, just can't face the music. So he runs a wire from his toy-train set to the frame of the harp, transforming it into a colossal toaster that does stepmother up brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Little Boy Bluebeard | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...King in New York, had its world premiere in London, the critics emerged in a rattle of pans. "The heart of the film lies pickled in the formaldehyde of the Thirties," wrote the Sun, and the Daily Sketch mourned: "It croaks and creaks like an aged mechanical toy." Director Chaplin, who played only a cameo role in Countess and left the acting to Sophia Loren and Marlon Brando, said that he couldn't care less about the reviews: "I still think it's a great film, and I think the audiences will agree with me rather than with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 13, 1967 | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

Logue called the Harvard, M.I.T. and Brandeis professors "tinker toy boys" and suggested they were frustrated academicians exploiting the people of Madison Park in order to try out their own planning ideas...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: BRA and Roxbury Citizen Group Reach Urban Renewal Agreement | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...just as the UPA does not trust the BRA, BRA officials frequently question the motivation of the people in UPA. Logue himself called them "tinker toy boys" and suggested that UPA was composed of frustrated academicians exploiting the people of Madison Park in an effort to try out their own planning ideas...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, | Title: BRA and Roxbury Citizen Group Reach Urban Renewal Agreement | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...complete arsenal, in theory, would cost around $200, and many a family has found itself getting almost as far ahead of its original spending estimates as, say, Defense Secretary McNamara. This Christmas season, G.I. Joe is still the bestselling single new toy around, despite the competition of other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Front & Center | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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