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There seems to be a Crimson voodoo doll with pins in its legs...
...Street horror movies, no one has ever succeeded in killing off the fiendish Freddy Krueger, who mutilates and murders teenagers in their sleep. But in toyland, Freddy has been given the ax. Last week Matchbox Toys acknowledged that it had halted production of its 17-in. talking Freddy doll. The company was bowing to pressure from the archconservative Rev. Donald Wildmon, who called for a boycott of stores selling...
...Breathed's inflated mind, this must have looked like a good idea. Unfortunately, it looks horrible on paper. A little Black girl from the ghetto, Ronald Ann, is transported into an avante garde land of socially-conscious weird beings. Ronald Ann, who totes a headless doll, made appearances in the last year of "Bloom County," but her character was smothered beneath her role as the Voice of Liberal Consciousness. She was never anything more than an easy way to get a point across. Ronald Ann had none of the subtlety or independence of, say, Oliver Wendell Jones, Breathed's Black...
...eight-year-old boy if he wants to play with dolls, and he may paste you one. Better not tell him that a court has ruled that his GI Joe is a doll. Hasbro, which introduced GI Joe in 1964, has always used macho euphemisms like "action figure" to describe the soldier. Since 1982, though, when Hasbro began importing its GI Joe toys from Hong Kong, the U.S. Customs Service has classified it as a doll...
Despite these imbroglios, Barry, like a weighted inflatable punching doll, keeps bouncing back. Boasts the mayor: "If I ran tomorrow morning, I could beat anybody in this town." As for the allegations of dishonesty, "If all this corruption was going on, I should be in jail." Some of his staunchest supporters now see the emperor without his clothes. For 15 years, Washington power broker Max Berry, a wealthy international trade lawyer, raised money and campaigned for Barry. Berry used to defend him. Today he gripes, "It's just a matter of time before the next thing hits. It's hard...