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Founder Clampitt's original plan was to create a news organization "by children, for children" offering features on doll hospitals and white-water rafting. Then, during the 1976 Democratic Convention, the fledgling Children's Express scooped the national press corps by breaking the news that Walter Mondale would be Jimmy Carter's running mate. "My ideas were totally changed after that," recalls Clampitt. "Suddenly, it was about children taking responsibility -- about real-world journalism...
...living in slacks," says Joanne West, 42, a suburban housewife. "I was in desperate need of dressing up." Now every weekend she and her husband head downtown to Chicago's new club, Karl's Satin Doll, for an elegant evening. "We were falling into the couch-potato thing," she says, "but this has helped us get up and out." So even a sofa spud can be a sentimentalist at heart...
...world. But all of this was a world away from the simple reality of sitting in a $5 seat on a rainy day, in a half-deserted stadium, wrestling with a box of Curry Noodles (the box won in the opening round). Beside him, three local zanies were wearing doll masks on their heads and munching Smoked Soft Squid. In front of him, two sporting- goods salesmen from Ensenada, Mexico, were crying out Spanish exhortations to Tino Martinez, the U.S. baseball team's first baseman. On every side, four separate groups of cheerleaders, led by men in suits, were throwing...
...house mirror. Lay your own sound effects over the dialogue of a TV commercial or movie clip. Browse through the media memorabilia of a zillion middle-class childhoods: the Cisco Kid coloring book, the Partridge Family lunch box, a Donald Duck board game, the Welcome Back, Kotter paper-doll set. And when you need a rest, stop by AMMI's two state-of-the-art theaters and catch a full-length movie. Later this fall, AMMI will mount a Jerry Lewis retrospective. Henri Langlois must be pleased...
...figures before the Foreign Ministry called the firm's attention to a critical article about the mannequins in the Washington Post. The company stopped production. Sanrio Co., the manufacturer of a well-selling line of toys and gift items, followed suit. Its products included large-eyed dolls called Sambo and Hannah, and towels, bags and stationery goods decorated with pictures of the pair. Along with a big-lipped black doll named Bibinba, the line brought Sanrio more than $11 million in sales last year. "We were making a summer item, and we designed it to be kawaii," says Kazuo Tomatsu...