Word: doll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperate degrading of her memory, James had made love to a fat tart "with the face of a baby doll" night after night in the private compartment next to his dead mother. At the end of the journey, he was too drunk even to attend her funeral. As Josie realizes, the only thing James wants from her is the temporary peace of absolution. She cradles him like a lost child, knowing that death alone can absolve...
...Seattle, a four-year-old boy tries on a surgical mask for the role of doctor. Instead of playing nurse, a little girl assumes a doctor's mask herself. The boy glowers, and she asks, "Why not?" There is no reply. They begin to operate on a broken doll...
...department stores, magic sets are big along with ten-speed bikes and all sorts of arts and crafts, including candlemaking outfits. Boys want Evel Knievel ($ 15) as well as Big Jim and Big Jack dolls, and girls ask for Baby Alice, a creature who eats gel, which then comes out on its diaper, and a Barbie doll with a real hair dryer run by batteries ($15). The subteen set also wants records: the Osmond Brothers, David Cassidy, The Jackson 5, Andy and David Williams, and the Carpenters. Unlike their hard-rock counterparts, the young idols come on as shy homebodies...
...casting of Gigi. Hepburn brought an ethereal child-bride quality to all her roles, and that gave her Gigi a piquant flavor. Caron was a kind of wistful gamine, and that made her interpretation equally engaging in a different way. The current Gigi, Karin Wolfe, is a Barbie doll who has been programmed to sing, dance and fall in love with a chilling absence of presence Daniel Massey is also miscast as her suitor Gaston, a rich Parisian play-boy-about-town who discovers that little girl he used to pat on the head has grown into a young woman...
Point System. One result is that the boys often react to one another just the way their outside peers react to them. A five-year-old with a passion for dolls teased a fellow patient who picked up a doll, saying, "That's sissy stuff." Because many of the youngsters seem unaware of the way they appear to others, they are shown videotapes of themselves mincing down the hall...