Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a G.S. 13 but I've never used it," says Sid. "Louise said to me, 'you know how long you would last in a bureacratic job? About two months.' I'd blow up the place. Besides, it's a happy scene, it's not a pressure thing...
...like to see our people build Roxbury instead of hanging on the street. I'd like to go into a business where I could take two or three people off the street at least, where I can produce something. But the number one thing to think about is survival. People say they can't do this but they don't try; if I set myself a goal I want to conquer. If I don't, I sick...
...thing about Suckerman, the clinging vinyl critter, is that he doesn't stick. Don't believe the box. He simply doesn't grip most surfaces. Despite the suction cups that bulge from his body, he makes but the feeblest attempt to cling to the wall of the Jordan Marsh toy department, bouncing off again and again with his shallow vinyl grin intact...
Overall, electronic devices have replaced instruments as the source of music for children. At an age when Beethoven was grinding out major works, children today are encouraged to buy the "Magical Musical Thing." Shaped vaguely like a rifle, its maker promises you can "play it like a piano keyboard" or "play it like a guitar and be a star." Either way, "Touch a tune or strike a song, let your fingers creep along...
...argument could be made for the relative superiority of the Magical Musical Thing, though, when it's stacked up against the electronic games dominating what the marketers call the "high end" of the toy business...