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With such a constituency, can the merchandisers be far behind? There are Barney dolls (shhh! It may be a surprise for somebody special, but President- elect Bill Clinton reportedly just bought a 4-ft.-high model from F.A.O Schwarz) as well as Barney bed sheets, books, earrings and underwear. JC Penney has opened Barney boutiques, which sell everything from jogging outfits to necklaces. "It's going to be the hottest toy this Christmas, because every two- to five-year-old child in America knows who Barney is," says Standard & Poor's toy analyst Paul Valentine. Next year Hasbro intends...
THERE COMES A MOMENT IN ALL losing campaigns when the energy evaporates. Political operatives function primarily on adrenaline, carry-out food and the hope that "two more weeks of this and I'll have an office in the White House and clean underwear." But when the President goes to the Debate of His Life and keeps looking at his watch as if he had a much more important engagement elsewhere, there is no way for his minions not to lose heart. Trickle-down doom is inevitable when the candidate is physically present at the debates but is already mentally...
...face of these shortcomings, honesty seems the best policy. What have I been hiding from myself? A relationship with Auntie Nora's pet poodle? Infatuation with my sister's lacey underwear? I fear such perversions must be deeply buried, and that much more psychobabble will be required to dent my native prudery. I get depressed sometimes--when England lose at soccer, or my bank account throttles into overdraft--but these moments hardly constitute a recipe for a session in therapy...
...Underwear, Aboriginals, Hamlet and an airline passenger named Death seem unlikely subjects for a poetry reading. But Australian poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe combined these and other topics in a reading last Thursday that ranged from the absurd to the beautiful to the profound...
...Wallace-Crabbe's poetry is so serious, though nearly all is thought-provoking. His reading included humorous pieces through which, Wallace said, he attempts to "give dignity to commonplace things." Among those "commonplace things." Among those "commonplace things" were artichokes, bananas, galvanized corrugated iron, can openers and men's underwear--the last item earned chuckles from the audience and a wry smile from Wallace-Crabbe's wife Marianne...