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By BONNIE ALLEN
Times Special Writer
In Big People World this holiday season, love, hope, and conflict resolution are picking up prestige. The Great Cold War has broken up into miserable squabbles. Defense spending is down.
But the forces of good and evil are still at it in Toy land, and it’s obvious that some of our unemployed weapons designers are temping at Santa's workshop.
Peace is not what’s happening in deep toyspace. If tiny stars are twinkling out there, Bull Alien ain’t singin’ about ’em. He’s just been blasted by Alienator missiles from Space Marine Corporal Hicks’ Bug Rocker launcher, and Lt. Ripley’s in his face with her gigantic TurboTorch. What good are Bull’s deadly spiked horns to him now! His only hope is his best girl, Giant Face Hugger Alien, who can pull a Marine into her tail web and trap him in her hideous legs. You were expecting Princess Diana?
Back on toyearth, things aren’t much more peaceful, but some of the folks are more like you and me. Batman, for example. His batmobile’s a new model, not a compact or
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