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...indirectly suggests a different recourse: activity and achievement. A young girl who has worked under him in city hall but finds the occupation boring comes to his house to ask him to sign her retirement papers. Watanabe becomes acquainted with her, and it is her future employment--in a toy factory--which suggests that he may still further the happiness of others. He returns to the city hall and takes up the first possible project, a proposed park in a slum district. The rest of the movie concerns his struggle to save his park from the bureaucratic lethargy which...
...better singer than tap dancer, in 1950 embarked for Italy to study, made her operatic debut (as Gilda) at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome when she was 24. On that occasion she had with her the good-luck charm she had at the Met last week-a toy cat whose beneficent influence has consistently triumphed over audiences, if not over Sparafucile...
...most irksome of musical burdens-a reputation as a prodigy. His Russian-born parents brought him up in Pittsburgh, where his father, who owned a sporting-goods store, went by the name of Yanks, a contraction of the name Yankilevitch. When he was five, Byron started to play a toy xylophone like an old hand, soon afterward was playing piano on the radio. At 13, Byron Yanks, who shortly became Byron Janis, left home for good to study with a succession of teachers, finally becoming the only pupil of Vladimir Horowitz. He made his debut at 15 with the Pittsburgh...
...start four years ago making the infra-red detection system for the Sidewinder missile, which seeks out the enemy aircraft by homing in on the heat from its engines. The company also provided the detection equipment for the surveillance satellite Midas. On the commercial market Infrared Industries offers a toy walkie-talkie that uses an infra-red beam to transmit up to i.ooo ft. in the daytime...
...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...