Video games have become so much more than idle playthings.
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When they build their own playthings, they're creators and makers.
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People love their playthings, and the toys love us back.
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But the spinner has created a new "fidget" category of playthings.
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Those expecting an embarrassed disclaimer about the playthings will be disappointed.
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Yet by design, they're kept from realizing their futile fate as playthings.
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Once on display upstairs, they lost out to the playthings of children.
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Earthquake putty to keep knickknacks, vases, and picture frames from becoming playthings
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Mechanical watches are playthings for the rich or tools for the working world.
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That is to say, these are not dolls and playthings — they're classroom needs.
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There is no doubt that they are playthings, and owners show them off.
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Sneakers are perfect for a playdate — especially if they're literally constructed from children's playthings.
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How dare Ben follow protocol and treat all the ladies like equal-opportunity playthings?
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We tech journalists can't stop talking about drones, but they're still mostly playthings, curiosities.
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Love, fury and agony have become playthings and status symbols — Botox for the heart.
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They aren't actually businesses, they are self-indulgent playthings that do nothing for no one.
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They treat the robots as playthings, abusing them at will and for their own pleasure.
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VivoText licenses its software to Hasbro, an American toymaker keen to sell increasingly interactive playthings.
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Paul Steinberg's set consists mostly of huge plywood-paneled blocks, as if a giant's playthings.
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It's unclear whether the objects inside the human-sized metal enclosure are playthings or weapons.
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As a solitary performer, she often resembles a lonely child, kept company only by her playthings.
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He loved having the power to transform police into playthings as if they were videogame characters.
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And the other playthings from high school, Toby and Caleb, showed how disposable they really are.
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Recently, Brower released a virtual reality game called Playthings that lets you play music with food.
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Undeterred, Mr Kuroda spent September 21st removing the ribbons on a new parcel of monetary playthings.
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Objectively, the Aventador and to a lesser extent, the Urus, are flashy playthings for the 1%.
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But if I did, I'd be thrilled by the kid-height sink surrounded by adorable playthings.
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On the project's website, Brower says this video barely scratches the surface of what Playthings can do.
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" She said that both "everything and nothing" was different after the harsh dialogue: "We are geopolitical playthings.
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In their disdain for vanity, its inhabitants make potties out of gold and children's playthings out of jewels.
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When Russia began turning out oligarchs, they soon started buying up teams like Chelsea as their private playthings.
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Hopefully Playthings gets released to a broader audience someday, cause I totally want to drum on some cheeseburgers.
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Still, in a time of high-tech playthings and Wi-Fi connected gadgets, tiny appears to be trending.
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Doggie playthings and bowls have 2x more germs than the everyday objects humans use, like forks and cellphones.
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A crack epidemic and poverty were ravaging the South Bronx in the 1980s, and debris became children's playthings.
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Typically they have an enclosed garage in back of them, designed for carrying motorcycles, ATVs, or other outdoor playthings.
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At the Museum of Ice Cream, guests at least receive a few tastings and interactive playthings throughout the journey.
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For rappers Famous Dex and Rich the Kid money, jewelry and six-figure cars are just very expensive playthings.
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HEALY The depiction of so many women on "Dallas" as sexual objects and playthings definitely ran counter to progressivism.
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Yet, any number of catastrophes could render them irrelevant as fanciful playthings that no longer justify their mammoth resources.
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A former corporate lawyer, Sawaya now devotes his life to making art with hugely popular childhood playthings: Lego bricks.
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Johnson) and her billionaire boyfriend, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), a guy with sculptured muscles, expensive playthings and dreary issues.
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The underprivileged are depicted as mere playthings of the forces of poverty and racism, "perennial victims," incapable of agency.
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In the toy sector, Neurala hopes to alleviate consumer concerns of playthings that can be hacked or have information stolen.
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Virtual reality 2016 looks to be a breakout year for playthings that incorporate virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).
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A friend sent me a study recently in which researchers gave wild rhesus monkey babies a variety of human playthings.
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The 'STEM premium' can be steep indeed, even as the capabilities and educational potential of the playthings themselves varies considerably.
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Arab states were seen as the illegitimate offspring of colonialism, and many of their leaders as playthings of the imperialists.
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And people love their old favorites redesigned into glossier playthings—save for a few Monkey Island fans, in my experience.
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Like many, I had left those pre-figured playthings behind in elementary school—but now, they were suddenly surrounding me.
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Basing movies on kiddie playthings is ingenious: It turns every Lego brick into a Rosebud sled, a portal into childhood.
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Andy, the kid who owned the franchise's familiar ensemble of toys, grew up and out of his once-beloved playthings.
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First, it hints that the characters themselves live in a kind of doll's house, as playthings of some powerful unseen force.
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You could be playing pianos and drums in Playthings, but you can do that without VR, so I picked food instead.
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"DuckTales" filed trademark paperwork ... setting Disney up to produce themed kids' juices, soft drinks, toys, games, books and all other playthings.
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And at the time, most manufactured playthings tended to come from Germany, said Steve Pasierb, the association's president and chief executive.
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Until they use their voice, until they truly fight back, they're all nothing more than playthings acting out A.D.'s storylines.
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A late shot shows tombstones of the deceased, with construction trucks ("the monster's playthings") driving on higher ground in the distance.
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But, at some point, his personal metronome is going to kick in and then time and space will become his playthings.
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Just like that, Woody's kid — as the beloved playthings in the Toy Story franchise call their owners — may not need him anymore.
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Or consider that it has also suggested that we are the playthings of extra-dimensional beings we can hardly hope to comprehend.
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And a whole bunch of automakers started rolling out shiny new playthings in advance of the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany.
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First there's the children's house of make-believe, Some shattered dishes underneath a pine, The playthings in the playhouse of the children.
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While those expensive watches are the playthings of the rich, you can still make the right impression by spending $500 or less.
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Right now, Playthings is only available for HTC Vive, but he would like to release a snack-sized version for mobile phones.
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Toy Fair lives at the intersection of serious industry and fun playthings — where suited business people and poseable action figures coexist harmoniously.
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Lange, an architecture critic, shows that the desire to foster children's creativity is not always served by the increased sophistication of playthings.
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They're his playthings but since he is so very old he doesn't seem to want to play with his toys that much.
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Through proper procedures and permanent mobilization, they would continually sidestep the iron law of oligarchy and thus avoid turning into career politicians' playthings.
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Playthings aimed at the over-20s make up 27% of Japan's domestic toy sales, according to figures from Euromonitor, a market-research firm.
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A senior White House envoy, Jason Greenblatt, described the kites as "not harmless playthings or metaphors for freedom (but) propaganda and indiscriminate weapons".
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The performers tie the hanging bulbs together, swing them and gather around them — treating them both as playthings and as sources of energy.
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With his "lack of knowledge" and "great disloyalty" smear, Trump again picked up his favorite playthings -- dangerous words -- and threw them around recklessly.
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At this carnival, Ms. Perry wasn't quite a ringleader, but more like a wide-eyed enthusiast let loose among a cornucopia of playthings.
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And why are cars, blocks, and the rest of the playthings that strengthen technical skills and understanding in the other corner of the store?
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Siminovich is the creative force and founder of Petit Collage, a modern design company specializing in décor and playthings for babies and young children.
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The state's Special Financial Institutions, which provide rural credit, are now regulated by the central bank, having previously been the playthings of provincial politicians.
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"We tried to inject the fun details we are known for in digital toys into everyday items — making playthings out of everything," she adds.
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But vision comes in many forms, and chipsets by Movidius will enable startups like Petronics to offer playthings for your feline friends, and more.
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Called Playthings, this VR jamming experience was developed by George Michael Brower, formerly of Google's Creative Lab and presently of Always & Forever Computer Entertainment.
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The few briefly glimpsed women in the story are partners rather than playthings, either holding down the homefront or proving competent in a crisis.
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All the things we do around these playthings when we're not properly focusing on them at all, that have no meaningful impact on results.
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As Lingua Ignota, Hayter takes power electronics, doom, classical music, and black metal as her playthings, and contorts their lines with almost Biblical savagery.
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Tinsel is an especially dangerous to cats, who might think those long silver strings are playthings or ingest them by accident while self-grooming.
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Although tourists sometimes think the buildings are playthings and knock on the doors, the site is actually intended to help solve desperate urban problems.
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Our Parenting editor's toddler stabbed her in the eye with a pointy toy, and doctors say broken ankles from tripping over playthings are common.
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"Electric toy vehicles are much more than mindless playthings," said Neve Spicer, founder of We the Parents, another website that reviews gear for children.
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There are only negative connotations regarding a gas mask, whereas there's at least a chunk of the population who use semi-automatic weapons as playthings.
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The problem right now, though, is that these "massively wealthy" clients, as Carson described them, are making more money from their playthings than actual investments.
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It's hard to tear kids away from their favorite playthings, but when those toys start getting moldy, a mom does what she has to do!
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Men who treated women as disposable playthings, who casually carried cuffs or ropes on a night out with them just in case they got lucky.
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Shine's collaborators are more like playthings than serious romantic interests, and it's fun to watch them fall under the artist's spell and take her orders.
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A close third-person voice situates "Playthings" in an eerie place between a lived account of insanity and a careful observation of a mind's unraveling.
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Even the custom-built shelves that Ms. Wise had installed in the closet no longer made sense because Emillie had outgrown her toys and playthings.
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The sense of abandonment that permeates each image is fitting: these are old, deteriorating playthings whose first visitors may now have offspring of their own.
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It wasn't until Catherine checked a separate Amazon order on Friday that she was alerted to the enormous list of playthings that was headed her way.
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Take This' co-executive director Shannon Gerritzen suggests games are often thought of as crude playthings centered around violence, yet wider preconceptions are beginning to shift.
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Enter the Human Horde below: You can check out Brower's Playthings game, here, and for other works by the artist, head over to his studio's website.
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Radar reported in April 2019 that, according to an insider, Moore had insured her collection for $2 million, and that it "consists of thousands of playthings."
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The treasures outside city limits are larger — typically stashed in Tupperware or ammunition containers, holding toy soldiers or other tiny playthings, and hidden in woodsy locales.
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Pheby illustrates this point with compassion and subtlety in "Playthings"; the book's hybrid position between the historical and the fictional makes it all the more potent.
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John du Pont doesn't care about people as people; for him, they are replaceable playthings to be bought and sold like trophies and pets and toy trains.
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MAC just announced a new collection in honor of the popular '90s playthings, and our office erupted in gasps of excitement — much to the dismay of moi.
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This year we layered up to face a sub-zero New York City and meticulously combed the halls of Toy Fair 2016 to track down the standout playthings.
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Virtual interfaces like Soundscape, Playthings, Lyra VR, and Imogen Heap's Mi.Mu haptic gloves let users control and manipulate digital music with physical gestures instead of knobs and clicks.
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Despite their original use as innocent, childhood playthings, dolls have become such a universal symbol of horror that they've been the stars of major films like Chucky and Annabelle.
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There's a feature in Playthings flirting with that, where users play a pre-written song by hitting gummy bear and sprinkle notes that fly at them in proper order.
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The episodes "USS Callister" and "Black Museum" examine how men use AI technology to act out their darkest fantasies, treating the lives of the people around them as playthings.
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Three books examine the appeal and purpose of games, video and otherwise, probing the reasons some of these playthings have become so engaging, addictive and even good for you.
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Voting rights, minority rights, the health of the environment, the sanctity of various and sundry offices — everything we're trained, as citizens, to care about — are playthings to these people.
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A Florida-based graphic designer named Gaynor Evans-Wilson just filed a trademark application in hopes of locking down "S***hole President" with an eye for playthings and figurines.
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For Toxic Don, Mexico is just the beginning, just a taste of the games he would play if he were actually president, countries and countless human lives his playthings.
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The line of accessories, called Nintendo Labo, contain modular cardboard sheets that can be folded into a variety of playthings — such as motorbikes, fishing rods, pianos, houses or robots.
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The device arrives on the scene as toymakers are going full bore with robotics and artificial intelligence that have the dual purpose of being both playthings and instruments of instruction.
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The subscription service is another step forward in pushing science and technology playthings to parents looking for more educational toys, while simultaneously adding more recurring monthly services for Amazon customers.
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Shepard has fully embraced being a dad to two little girls, having donned a tiara to play house with them in the past and dropped everything to fix their playthings.
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In 1925, Sigmund Freud coined the idea of the "Madonna-whore complex," according to which men are able to see women only as their saintly mothers or their sexual playthings.
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"The rebirth of the open workplace cannot be helping this situation," Dr. Cowan said, alluding to work spaces without desks, physical barriers and privacy, but with a plethora of playthings.
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Out of the handful of VR-equipped electronic music games that do exist, many of the most compelling examples place you inside abstracted instrument spaces, such as my favorite, Playthings.
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Now that their human playthings have ruined the sport by making Earth largely uninhabitable, the Vril are left sulking in their favorite historical forms, which include Genghis Khan and Margaret Thatcher.
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Armed with golden arrows to inspire love and leaden arrows to inspire hate, he'd treat the mortals of Greece like his playthings, magically inciting conflicts and unions for his own amusement.
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And if that's the case, a Pitbull endorsement for Rubio wouldn't sway many women either, since Pitbull himself has reduced women down to beautiful playthings who exist solely for male pleasure.
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Though no team can quite match the length of Olympiacos's hegemony, an increasing number of domestic competitions are starting to turn into the playgrounds and playthings of one all-powerful club.
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No special skills or equipment are needed; every parent learns the virtue of pots and spoons as playthings, and boxes that are more fascinating to babies than the toys they contained.
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Favored by magic acts and theaters, which used them to make ghosts and demons seem to appear, these projectors evolved into popular Victorian-era entertainment for adults and playthings for children.
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Toy Story 4 digs into the weirdest corner of a kid's play room: the toys that aren't actually toys, but everyday objects that become playthings because kids are nothing if not imaginative.
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"Toys in the Attic" (2009), a stop-motion animated feature from Jiri Barta, appears on one level to be a kind of Czech "Toy Story," populated by talking dolls and other playthings.
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The hand has also emerged as a star of a popular genre of YouTube children's content: toy unboxing videos, where new playthings are removed from their packages and taken for a spin.
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They turn men into pliable playthings, and the punchline of almost all of these films revolves around one idea: Men are basically stupid; blinded by sex, and helpless in the face of it.
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Newer brands like Melissa & Doug have proven there's a market for classic toys like this, even in a day and age when kids are drawn to digital playthings like tablets and video games.
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But both bitcoin and ethereum are still struggling to find uses beyond being playthings for speculators, and in Canada's most populous city, there's only a handful of locations that accept cryptocurrency as payment.
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As toys meant to inspire a love for science and math become more and more popular with parents of young children, the same parents are noticing the extra mess that these playthings bring.
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If you go to Bar None, Twelve West, or Republic (literally why though?) then you'll see these smoking playthings being passed around the dance floor like someone more retro might pass around cocaine.
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This has been an ongoing theme for Musk; he even discussed his campaign to protect us all from becoming robot playthings in the not-so-distant future in a lengthy Vanity Fair profile.
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Up in the hillsides, a no-go zone for civilians, multimillion-dollar mansions are flooded with mud, and cars, tossed about like playthings, are now just hunks of twisted metal, jammed against trees.
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The movie's background is littered with playthings whose appeal has spanned multiple generations, and seeing those classics rendered in animation that samples liberally from other eras creates a comforting sense of whimsy and nostalgia.
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BB-8 droids, lightsabers and other playthings made "Star Wars" the U.S. toy industry's top-selling property for 2015 and 103, with $1.5 billion in sales over the two years, research firm NPD said.
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The first season of Westworld ended with the hosts taking up arms against the Delos board, as their burgeoning self-awareness turned them against the people who had used them as playthings for decades.
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It is at this time of year that encounters with cicadas are most frequent, as they can occasionally be found buzzing clumsily on the ground — easy pickings for birds, and playthings for domestic cats.
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That befits the new story Westworld is telling, in which the Hosts who are still around think through how to approach the question of living within a human society that sees them as playthings.
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Much of the backlash surrounding the automobile came from the early period, when cars were still the noisy playthings of rich people, spooking horses in city streets and belching steam out in the countryside.
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BB-8 droids, lightsabers and other playthings made "Star Wars" the U.S. toy industry's top-selling property for 23 and 2016, with $1.5 billion in sales over the two years, research firm NPD said.
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It's hard to bring something new to a table already sagging beneath its own weight; she's a charismatic anarchist who treats people like playthings, and both the audience and Sherlock have dealt with this before.
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Then take a trip to a virtual island full of candy colored objects, musical instruments, and shimmering portals in Playthings, a virtual reality game revolving around music, with floating junk food that acts as instruments.
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While the Vive is still a little clunky—a heavy box strapped over your face with wires drooping from them and tangle in your feet—Playthings is light and airy, more vivid than life itself.
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But many university students learn that the author of Don Juan was mad, bad and dangerous to know for sleeping with his half-sister and treating women in general as either dream objects or playthings.
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"Remember, though, it is just a game and much more powerful forces, like the dollar, the Fed and oil, will reduce these stocks to playthings even if the underlying companies report fabulous numbers," Cramer said.
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Ryan ToysReview — a popular preschool-targeted YouTube channel boasting over 20 million subscribers, featuring a 7-year-old boy named Ryan Kaji playing with and reviewing playthings — is in hot water with Truth in Advertising.
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Most of us don't have the authority that comes with 40 years of being Miss Manners, but no matter who you are it can be near impossible to pry anyone away from their mobile playthings.
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His well-known, vulgar and misogynist comments about women coupled with his penchant for beauty pageants and his string of model wives reveal a man who doesn't see women as his peers but as his playthings.
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And among young men, exposure to porn has been correlated with seeing sex as purely physical, regarding girls as playthings, and measuring their masculinity and their self-worth by their ability to score with hot women.
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Toronto's scene started rolling when the French-born Ben Castanie, who was inspired in part by the Parisian toy libraries that lent playthings to families when he was a boy, opened Snakes & Lattes Annex in 2010.
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In 1900 the horse remained the primary means of travel, and fewer than 14,000 automobiles — which most people viewed as playthings of the rich — bumped along the nation's rutted roads; by 1920 there were nine million.
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In their new video for "Irresistible," their latest single with Demi Lovato, FOB and the "Confident" singer channel 'NSYNC's iconic "It's Gonna Be Me" clip, with the band turning into live-action playthings at a toy store.
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Studiomate Jonathan Baken was the main sound designer and composer for Playthings, and the two also created a visual album together, where the MIDI notes float in a 3D space, lighting up in time with the music.
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He made clear that he regarded women as little more than sexual playthings, that marital fidelity meant nothing to him and that his stardom gave him license to commit sexual assault on the objects of his desire.
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Futurama - "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings" Originally designed as the series finale (before the show received an unexpected revival courtesy of Comedy Central several years later), this was Futurama at its best: sharp, sly and surprisingly sweet.
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I've long found Sarah Kane's Skin to be one of my favorite depictions of interracial intimacy because Black people's bodies are not used as playthings for white negotiations of their own racialized (mis)understandings or desires for power.
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Its matriarchal narrative — the struggles and rivalries are between women, the men are all dolts, victims, or playthings — makes what could have easily been exploitative in the hands of another director feel more like a psychedelically gynocentric safe space.
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I don't have the opportunity to try many out at this job, but when I do, there's an invariable pang of jealousy for kids today who have much broader access to sophisticated playthings than we did in our day.
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While those expensive watches are the playthings of the rich, you can still make the right impression by spending $500 or less, and we've collected eight of the best watches you can get for this reasonable amount of money.
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The designer Albert Kriemler loves to take his cues from the art world, but on what planet do women want to walk around referencing playthings on their dresses and jackets, no matter how sculptural and midcentury modern their origin?
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A ticketed Preview Party will be held Friday, November 8, 6 – 9 pm and gives audiences a first look at exhibitor offerings and art installations, while enjoying an exclusive set by DJ 7L and performance by Playthings: The Drag-a-Zine.
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The group World Against Toys Causing Harm Inc released its "10 Worst Toys of 2016" at the start of the U.S. holiday shopping season, saying it intends to call attention to playthings that may be more dangerous than parents realize.
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Psychedelic drugs have been typecast as the preserve of hippies, jungle shamans, and psychonauts (people who use drugs to explore their own mind), and more recently the playthings of privileged elites seeking spiritual nirvana, but this stereotype is a chimera.
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If the first season dealt with the dawning consciousness of the robot hosts -- after having been cruelly exploited as the playthings of the human guests -- the second moved into a new phase, as those characters pursued their independence and rebelled.
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"Finding a charity that provides toys to less fortunate children is very motivating for a child," said Ms. Lowenheim, whose 19-year-old daughter purged her playthings in this manner before each birthday and holiday, starting when she was a toddler.
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The popular Pinkfong tune inspired a line of plush playthings by WowWee, which the toy company was originally selling on Amazon at $17 for the singing baby, mommy or daddy shark doll and $8 for the song-cube variety, according to Good Housekeeping.
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The public rejected the duo's troublesome chamber western The Beguiled, starring Eastwood as a wounded Union soldier who foolishly tries to make playthings of the Confederate-aligned, Mississippi boarding school belles that nurse him back to health, while critics more or less shrugged.
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I like to think that the Vive experience Playthings was conceived when creator George Michael Brower spilled a bunch of gummy hamburgers on a table, started drumming on them absently with his fingers, and thought Wait, I should make this in VR!
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After decades of French standards like chocolate mousse and crème caramel, the simultaneous arrival of nouvelle cuisine and global express shipping brought new playthings to American restaurant kitchens, like white and dark chocolate, macadamia nuts and mangoes, kiwi fruit and coconut milk.
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Scientists, according to Strickland, "fall in love with their playthings"—shades of "Pygmalion" again—and we learn that, while the top brass tire of the Creature and ask that he be euthanized and cut up, Hoffstetler has clandestine motives for keeping him alive.
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It was in some ways a dangerous choice for Mr. Porte Jacquemus, whose recent collections have essentially cast women as dolls, playthings whose clothes appeared pinned to them (last season he actually sewed an entire dress across the front of an outfit).
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That these symbols have been reduced to playthings for tourists is a coda to the brutal narrative of indigenous people's military subjugation and internment in reservations — a fact I have to reconcile with the rich smell of the cedar chips that wafts over me.
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The revolution, whether it was waged by the Yippies or the Black Panthers, left little room for women, who were viewed as not much more than helpmeets and playthings — La Maman et la Putain of Jean Eustache's 1973 movie, The Mother and the Whore.
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Although many older Americans have, like the rest of us, embraced the tools and playthings of the technology industry, a growing body of research shows they have disproportionately fallen prey to the dangers of internet misinformation and risk being further polarized by their online habits.
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"Europeans are in danger of becoming hapless playthings in a tussle for pre-eminence between China, Russia, and the United States," wrote former Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt and Mark Leonard in a sobering account for the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank.
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Former Double Fine animator Tyler Hurd made our "Best of Tribeca" list last year with his virtual reality music video Old Friend, and the followup he directed is a pleasantly bizarre work that builds on the colorful surrealism of musical VR experiences like Playthings and Fabulous Wonderland.
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The society also plans to organize traveling versions of the exhibition, and it will use Jerni playthings in shows that examine the history of toy manufacturing, "chart the progress of westward expansion and document the impact of train transit on New York's industry and economy," he said.
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On Thursday at Zankel Hall, in addition to a string-orchestra version of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet, there are works by Tilson Thomas himself, including solo piano pieces performed by Wang and "Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind," written for the soprano Measha Brueggergosman.
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Of their six rivals in the Belgian second division, four are the playthings of foreign investors: the Thai owners of Leicester City, the Russian billionaire who has bankrolled A.S. Monaco, a German entrepreneur and a wealthy Egyptian who now backs three separate clubs in Africa and Europe.
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The latest in a string of children's playthings to get their own movie, Playmobil parlays the beloved German building toys into a tale of international travel, adventure, and intrigue, centering on a girl named Marla (voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy) and her brother Charlie (Gabriel Bateman).
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Hadid stepped out wearing a pair of light wash, flared and cropped, high-waisted Maje jeans with Zayn's name in gold script sewn across the back left pocket, much in the way Andy from Toy Story would scrawl his name in Sharpie upon the feet of his beloved playthings.
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She finds work as a maid, in households where the sons and fathers treat female servants as sexual playthings; "there are some masters who think you owe them service 24 hours a day, and that you should do the main work flat on your back," she tells the doctor.
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They may be unjust to the harridans, simps and playthings he stocks them with but they tell a real story of male collapse that was relevant to the culture at the time they were first produced, and might still hold up better than the later, more "serious" works.
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The real action won't be on the stage, but in the audience of undecided voters who will question the candidates: What will they ask Trump about the revelation that he admitted to groping women and treated them like playthings to be bought with a boob job or bedroom set.
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The memory of the thrill I experienced as a 13-year-old, ready to shed the hyper-feminized ideals of her old playthings, eager to revel in their demise, came to me as I scrolled through Natalie Beach's account on The Cut of her complicated friendship with Caroline Calloway.
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They were the playthings of Ember, a satyr-like god who lives for dramatic chaos and doesn't care so much about constructing a just society, and they found themselves torn between impulses to return power to Fillory's people (who are mostly talking animals) and to rule them with an iron fist.
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Me: And you don't have a problem with a candidate who demeans women as sexual playthings, who critiques women based more on busts than brains (in his words: "A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10"), who insults or leers at half the population?
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"I think the real depressing result here is the increased perception that both the law enforcement and intelligence agencies and their overseers are nothing more than partisan political playthings for the party in power," Steve Vladeck, an expert on national security law at the University of Texas Austin, tells me.
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Buzzfeed's Joseph Bernstein wrote in a fantastic exploration of the hoverboard supply chain: The hoverboard industry that has unfurled in the concrete of Bao An and other similar districts is on-demand IRL content production, a super-flexible churn that hands us the playthings of social-media-driven seasonal diversion.
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Harsh Conditions sees Via Vengeance double down on the sludgy, burly, atmospheric doom that's been the band's bread and butter since 2006, and also introduce a few unexpected new sonic playthings—piano, guest vocals from A Storm of Light's Josh Graham (who also handled the gorgeous cover art), and even vocal harmonies from Ocell's grandmother.
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This collaboration between institutions and artists was essential for making art playgrounds a reality, with groups such as Creative Playthings involving artists like Danish sculptor Egon Möller-Nielsen in the 1950s to produce playground sculptures available to order from catalogues, even coordinating a play sculpture competition with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1954.
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As Tim Wu argued in his 2010 book, "The Master Switch," all the major information technologies of the 20th century adhered to a similar developmental pattern, starting out as the playthings of hobbyists and researchers motivated by curiosity and community, and ending up in the hands of multinational corporations fixated on maximizing shareholder value.
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In addition to toy weapons and other playthings that could encourage children to launch projectiles at or crash into one another, the list includes a large stuffed elephant that the group warns could inadvertently suffocate an infant if left in a crib and a toy puppy with a 31-inch (79 cm) leash that could pose a strangulation hazard.
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Growth in the luxury private jet market is set to dip by 5 percent while luxury yachts have a zero growth outlook for 2016 as consumers are increasingly preferring to spend on experiences than playthings, according to the latest Bain Luxury Study, which forecasts a 4 percent rate of growth in 2016 for the overall industry.
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"The Ferrari and Porsche supercars offered for sale are just the most visible and gaudy signs of Tucker's greed, luxury playthings bought with money stolen from victims who were often living hand to mouth, people who took out payday loans to buy food for their families or pay medical bills," US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a statement.
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In short order it flips into a road movie when John and Lydia are forced to flee, a narrative turn that allows Mr. Richet to root around in a sandbox filled with the usual classic playthings: cool rides, ribbons of lost highway, the motel that becomes a deathtrap, the spooky deserts haunted by the ghosts of film cowboys and Indians past.
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"My father, he's come up with these slightly more unusual, eccentric ideas, but then he's gone out there and followed them through," said the son, who has been airlifted to the tops of mountains to skid down their side, and built a supersized replica of his childhood toys to shoot a video of him doing 360s over enormous children's books and playthings.
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So while the 'learn to code' space has erupted into a riot of noise and color over the past half decade, with all sorts of connected playthings now competing for kids' attention, and pestering parents with quasi-educational claims, pi-top has kept its head down and focused firmly on building a serious edtech business with STEM learning as its core focus, saving it from chasing fickle consumer fads, as Lozano tells it.
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More than a sleaze, not just a creep – Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is a man who views women and girls as sexual playthings, toys to be fondled and coveted, and he has no problem enacting his sexual whims on the women around him.
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But there's an obstacle, isn't there, between your games-oblivious proverbial man on the street and the acceptance that what can be seen strictly as playthings—and I do feel that the verb we use, to "play" video games, is a problem in communicating their contemporary complexities to those who still see Sonic and Mario in their mind's eye—are capable of moving us, constructing lasting memories based on story, the fate of the player-controlled avatars on screen, above and beyond how we maneuverer them from place to place.
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