Word: doll
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spaceman doll whose computer memory gives it a disappointingly narrow range of behavior. It breathes heavily (one of its better effects), buzzes, twitters and flashes its lighted eyes, and sounds ominous gongs, one for good and two for evil. The trouble with this Parker Bros, homunculus is that it looks as if it should be able to use its arms and legs like a true robot, and it can't. Rom will end up among the dust balls under the playroom sofa...
...Ginny, meanwhile began to use "play situations" to build up the twins' limited English. The girls could not easily arrange syllables into understandable words. They spewed out what English words they had with a machine gunlike rapidity. Given modeling clay (which they pretended was potato salad), kitchen implements, dolls and dollhouses, the twins would play and the speech pathologists would ask questions. Where should the doll go? "Inhouse," Gracie might answer. "Oh, in the house," Romain would reply slowly. Single words were expanded to phrases, phrases to sentences. Romain and Koeneke never directly corrected the twins. The girls seemed...
...study or office, but at least it has adequate closet space. There is a fur and jewels safe, and plenty of drawers for her status jeans (which come with this warning: "for tight-fitting fashions, especially pants, ask an adult for some baby powder and rub it on doll's legs before slipping on clothes.") There are even hangers for superstar Barbie's feather boa and disco dresses...
...most popular doll this season is not Superstar or Malibu Barbie. It is not Hawaiian Barbie ($7) or even Beautiful Bride Barbie ($10). Jordan's can barely keep the new Kissing Barbie ("Make her lips pucker! Hear the sound! See the lipstick mark!--$12) in stock...
Barbie is well-prepared for her twenties, but we can't help wondering about Ken. There's no kissing Ken or Beautiful Bridegroom doll. How long is Ken willing to wait? Barbie is already twenty and she's only just learned how to kiss...