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But the artist Jeff Koons, who constructed a 10-foot tall “Balloon Dog” that has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Canadian manufacturer and San Francisco gallery for producing and selling “Balloon Dog” bookends. Now the gallery, Park Life, has asked a federal court for a…
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For boys–even boys like this author, whose liberal-ish parents fulminated against the soul-scarring effects of “violent toys”–growing up in that America meant dreaming of guns. Cap guns, whose sweetly acrid smell is a grace note in memories of my boyhood summers. The impressively realistic toy Peacemaker in the Sears Roebuck catalog, with the tie that…
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For boys–even boys like this author, whose liberal-ish parents fulminated against the soul-scarring effects of “violent toys”–growing up in that America meant dreaming of guns. Cap guns, whose sweetly acrid smell is a grace note in memories of my boyhood summers. The impressively realistic toy Peacemaker in the Sears Roebuck catalog, with the tie that…