She survives this fate, growing up to become a sparky young woman, moving to the city to work in a rainbow-lit factory full of glowing toy dolls (the design from Chloe Lamford is excellent).
But look: there are delightfully glowing toy buildings, nine versions of them towering elegantly and defiantly enough above a miniature Manhattan to tease anyone with an imagination, particularly the city's young at heart.
Bock is the poster boy for contemporary Las Vegas literature, and much of Beautiful Children – a New York Times bestseller described by Esquire as "dirty, fast and hypnotic" – plays out in the city's shady perimeters and suburbs, where the strip is nothing but a "distant row of glowing toys".
In Adichie's version of reality, Ivanka Trump – "whom Donald showed off like a glowing modern toy that he did not know how to operate" – secretly donates money to Hillary Clinton and quietly sabotages her father's campaign.
The boxy, earth-toned trio with rectilinear designs and gold leaf inserts in their granular matte surfaces play off Constructivism in art and in utilitarian design, while the ones made of cylindrical volumes bearing lustrously glazed compositions of glowing rectangles toy with Cubism, Color Field painting and the hot-rod lacquering that inspired the California Finish Fetish movement.
With the crowd thin enough for movement, Son of Kick (the night's first opener) spun his mix to the delight of the hoopers and glow toy enthusiasts in attendance.
Mr. Leibov's current show, his fourth, is called "Satellite of Love" and features armfuls of glowing cast-glass sex toys in rainbow colors tucked into strappy handbags, also made of cast-glass, which makes an exciting backdrop for his morning coffee.
The preference assessment implemented prior to neuroimaging required subjects to select seven preferred toys (one for each fMRI task run) from a large drawer containing small toys, such as stickers, rubber balls, glowing pens... (items costing ~$1.00).
On the Opus, it appears they were toying with a much more modern look: glowing blue icons on an all black background.
The glowing orb bits are soft, malleable rubber — just like your pups favorite chew toy.
With their tiny interior lights glowing and embedded plastic cups holding haute cuisine soft-serve, it looked as if a fleet of toy U.F.O.'s were landing -- or a deconstructed igloo.
