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...course, customers can find replicas of the scary, green lizard from Tokyo. The store is stocked with wind-up Godzillas, a mechanistic MechaGodzilla and Godzilla versus Charles Barkley posters...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Man From Atlantis Boldly Goes Where No Harvard Square Store Has Gone Before | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

This September's first-year faces are a little more diverse, and the boxes, topped with computers and CD players, just a little different. No longer containing phonographs and wind-up alarm clocks, these boxes hide high-cost trinkets--the techno-toys of college...

Author: By Brett R. Huff, | Title: Amid Artsy Posters And Persian Rugs, First-Years Play And Parents Pay | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Drosselmeyer displayed for the company two life-size wind-up "dolls," which clicked across the stage. He presented Clara with The Nutcracker, Fritz obligingly broke it, and the party wound to a close. The adults went to bed, and the real Nutcracker--the one I had remembered--started. Once upon a time...Clara came downstairs in her filmy princess nightgown to check on her beloved broken gift...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Visions of Sugarplums | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...Beach," depicts a repulsive mixture of vegetable soup and crushed cupcakes. Sherman appears only in a reflection in the mirrored sunglasses on the sand. In her most recent photographs, Sherman is completely absent from the tableau. She has surrendered her "canvas" entirely to a mixture of hotdogs and wind-up toys in one, and a mask full of decayed dog food in another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Developing Talent | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

...Quirks. Want to buy anoutlandish, outrageous, totally wacko gift forsome zany friend? Go to Good's (Faneuil Hall).Their collection includes wind-up walking sushicomplete with chopsticks, AM coffee cup radios,lava lamps, and blow-up dinosaurs. To break up theHong Kong routine, try Good's x-rated fortunecookies...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: 26 Ways to Say `Merry Christmas' | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

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