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...animators, so lovingly do they detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...
Hiding beneath the bed are the results of Sid's experiments: mutant toys as bizarre as anything seen in a Hollywood film since the human oddities in Tod Browning's 1932 Freaks. Creepiest is Babyhead, a doll's head--its hair plucked, an eye missing--perched on Erector-set legs. The neat trick Toy Story pulls off is to make these creatures first repulsive, then poignant and finally heroic...
Sarah Price's manic June only appears at the end of the play: long enough for her incessant rambling and baby-doll voice to amuse, but thankfully not so long as to annoy...
...antagonist of the three ballets. Along with dark figures running on stage called The Past (played by students of the Boston Ballet School), Wallace frightens and enchants at the same time. Ribeiro is delightful as the Mechanical Nightingale, with her precise movements. She is a cold, elegant wind-up doll, entertaining the Prince with the same repetitive moves until they are comical...
Most disturbingly, though, it began to seem as though Harvard couldn't win, like some Yalie kept sticking pins in a Harvard voodoo doll. Harvard held leads in many of the games--sometimes large ones, such as a 30-18 advantage over Yale on February 11. And other times the Crimson could not take advantage of golden opportunities, such as when Brown lost star guard Erick Blackiston but still beat Harvard, 63-61, on February...