Word: yos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steadfast Tin Soldier grafted onto Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto. The one-legged soldier and his ballerina love battle an evil Jack-in-the-box in a gorgeous blend of traditional and computer animation. Eric Goldberg has a snippet set to Carnival of the Animals--flamingoes playing with yo-yos--that is giddy enough to remind you of Bob Clampett's 1943 cartoon classic A Corny Concerto. The Goldberg variation on Rhapsody in Blue is a smartly syncopated tribute to ageless caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. In the style of the NINAs that Hirschfeld hides in his drawings, the piece is crawling...
...information sessions have become playgrounds, trying to win employees instead of friends by sharing toys. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) provided all attendees with light-up yo-yos. Vertex Partners, acknowledging a more mature crowd, provided travel coffee mugs...
...worse than yard sales. This time hero Woody is the victim--kidnapped by Al to complete a set of classic '50s toys. Turns out Woody, or the marionette that inspired him, was once famous. He starred in his own TV show. He generated spin-off merchandise like radios, yo-yos, ukuleles. Heck, he was on the cover of TIME...
...three have six yo-yos in their room, mostly obtained from the Square shop Learningsmith, which sells various educational toys. Hodge expressed his satisfaction that the Coop has also begun yo-yo sales...
...Harvard Coop, after its renovation, now carries a virtual plethora of yo-yos," he said...