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...months after the stunning arrest, stories circulated about the relationship between Oziel and the police informant. She turns out to be Judalon Smyth, his alleged onetime lover and sometime patient, who published a newsletter for doll collectors and produces audiocassettes like Insights into the Sensuality and Sexuality of the Aquarius Woman. Her steamy story was laid out this month in Vanity Fair by reporter Dominick Dunne; in the article she explains that Oziel hypnotized her over the phone into falling in love with him. Two weeks ago she filed a lawsuit charging that Oziel drugged and raped her and later...
...Barbie-Doll Treatment. This strategy -- painting a female foe as simply too sweet for the job -- is being tested by WMCs in several states. In Colorado Republican Senate hopeful Hank Brown dismissed Democrat Josie Heath's written demand that he put in escrow $605,000 raised for his campaign at a luncheon chaired by a Denver developer with the comment, "It's a cute letter, but without substance." Heath snapped back that Brown's remarks were "incredibly patronizing. Modern men and women in this country today are well past using language like 'cute' with a woman's serious request...
There are baby dolls, soldier dolls, movie-star dolls and, of course, Barbie and Ken dolls. Mommy dolls on the career track are difficult to find. Or used to be: Cindy Stern, a New York City mother of two, watched her children at play and decided to create a doll that would broaden a child's role-playing fantasies. She and doll-dress designer Sue Ogden, a mother of three, created Mommy Doll, now manufactured by Tootsietoy of Chicago. Very contemporary Mommy comes with business suit, briefcase and baby for "Mommy Off to Work" activities, and a leisure outfit...
...monitor phone calls at will," says a U.S. diplomat just back from Nicaragua. Humberto Ortega, brother of the ex-President and Chamorro's army chief, earns grudging American respect as the most politically adroit figure in the country. Chamorro gets a harsh assessment. "Even her friends call her 'Rag Doll,' " says the U.S. official. "She's basically apolitical and wants Nicaragua to be a big happy family. Not surprisingly, nobody respects her. Ministers ignore the orders she signs...
...whatever he does," she says. "Every Palestinian is in exile." When she teaches grade- school children, she makes up plays. Here is a Palestinian girl crossing the Allenby Bridge from Jordan to the West Bank. An Israeli soldier gives the girl candy, but then he breaks open her doll to see if she is carrying anything dangerous. The girl throws the candy back at the soldier...