Word: toying
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...mythification, Jim Copp and Ed Brown, are off on another of their nonsensical crusades ("Oh, never have we ever been on such a trip as this/ We're headed for Flumdiddle, but/ We don't know where it is"), this time accompanied by titled tin pans, AWOL toy soldiers, and that masterly comic creation The Hen With...
...celebrate his first birthday (Nov. 25), the White House lifted the swaddling curtain for the first fullface portrait of John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...establishment stocks such exotica as 17th century quill pens with ballpoint nibs ($13.45) and square-toed velvet bedroom slippers for men ($24). Cooed Mme. Arpels, gesturing at the merchandise with a ring-finger diamond that would choke a Gabor: "I'm so amused with my new toy...
...Brown dealt with a play that O'Neill drafted at the age of twenty-four and released when he was thirty-seven. The image of the playwright struggling over his work for years and ripping up manuscripts in dissatisfaction should be borne in mind by every writer who might toy with the illusion of easy success...
...give it just the kiss of the hops from Stein Song days, and the rest is a delectable kiss-off of all that nostalgic '20s razzmatazz. Frank Loesser's score does not entrance, but it does cleverly enhance the book, as in A Secretary Is Not a Toy ("Her pad is to write in, and not spend the night...