Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comrades applauded lustily and showered Togliatti with gifts. For his adopted daughter, seven-year-old Marisa Malagoli, Genoa dockworkers gave a doll which closed its eyes and pronounced "Peace, peace." For Marisa's father himself, the Genoese donated a grey, five-passenger, 30-knot motorboat ("Fast as any boat in the Italian navy," boasted the comrades). A delegation of Red youth contributed a rowing machine, to help
...movie surrounds Hope with a whole gallery of Runyon types sporting names like Gloomy Willie (William Frawley) and Straight Flush (Jay C. Flippen). Jane Darwell plays an authentic old doll named Nellie Thursday, and Marilyn Maxwell supplies songs and cheesecake as a showgirl reluctantly in thrall to the Lemon Drop Kid. They treat their problems with deadpan earnestness, as Runyon intended them to, and beneath each sharp lapel and checkered vest beats a heart of gold...
...other comic characters are all foils to Falstaff, and many, are treated as caricatures rather than as characterizations. Bardolph, whose "zeal burns in his nose," and Doll Tearsheet, "as common as the way between St. Alban's and London," both get inspired treatment. The other comic characters join vigorously in the numerous brawls, and seem to get a good deal...
...little too late to reflect that "a 'person' is a-man-plus-a-woman; with one or the other absent, there is no person." When Gaunt sees his sex-starved fellow men queueing up for the Miss America Doll (including choice of permeating perfumes), it seems to him that "she" is precisely the "mechanical lust-putty" that they have been hankering after all along-an erotic object chosen solely according to "criteria of eye and ear and nose and touch," devoid of all "personality . . . mind . . . ideas or a soul." It is inevitable, Gaunt thinks, that this lascivious dummy...
...young Broadway producer strode aboard a Los Angeles-New York plane with TIME'S May 1st issue clutched in his hand. For more than a year handsome Ernie Martin had scouted movies, radio, TV and theater, but he could not find the right soprano to play the mission doll in his new musical, Guys &Dolls. The girl had to be able to sing like an old trouper and look like a teen-aged angel...