Word: doll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traveling with three friends--a neighbor, a sister, and her best friend since second grade. She was overweight, she had deep crows' feet around her eyes, and her throat rasped when she laughed. But her clothes were put on carefully and neatly, and she must have been a doll in the late '50s, before the wrinkles set in and the double chin appeared. When she looked me in the eye I saw why she was going to Memphis. Her eyes shone with a memory and a question. She needed proof. She wanted either to see Elvis and light...
...that Ken and Barbie Doll have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come...
...finds himself at a loss in the depiction of his characters, Auchincloss resorts to literary reference: Fred Stiles, a colleague of Jamey's, "thought of himself as the hero of a Balzac novel"; Amy complains to her husband, "You're treating me like Nora in A Doll's House"; in a more charitable mood, she broods, "The Brontë governess had found her Rochester...
...their glass enclosures and crates, armed with hooks, hasps, locks and hinges, they take their stand as small fortresses of care and responsibility against an inimical world of non-art-ratty execution, sloppy thought. This point is neatly made by A Close Call, 1965. Inside the box, a wooden doll with an ermine's head reels backward to avoid a dagger that has penetrated the glass ceiling...
...Hubert Humphrey, his family has still not figured out what to do with the thousands of things that people sent him over the past 35 years. Stored in a musty basement of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul are plaster busts of Humphrey and his wife Muriel, a doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number...