Word: dolle
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...like so many writers of the TV generation, found it easier to crack neurotic one-liners than to tell a story. But in Baby with the Bath Water, at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, he wobbles toward a narrative. The play follows Daisy (impersonated first by a girl doll, then by a hairy young man) from terrifying infancy, mute childhood and promiscuous adolescence to touchingly optimistic parenthood...
Ararta is an elegant construct, a story of form and connections about forms and connections. It is a story whinin a story within a story Rather than the easy metaphor--a series of Russian dolls which unscrew to reveal yet another doll inside-an elegant computer program with multiple subroutines comes closer to characterizing the work...
Spielberg was then presented with an E.T. doll, sporting heir...
...temporary-interest rates far higher than the 8¼% now being paid by the typical money-market fund. In the Atlanta area, the banks practically went berserk, guaranteeing rates of 20% or more for the first month. The First DeKalb Bank there, which dangled 25% interest and an E.T. doll, took in $7 million the first day, an amount that increased the bank's total deposits by 17%. Elsewhere, rates have been more realistic, generally ranging from 9% to 11%. But money has hardly been the only lure. Besides paying 10% interest, the Union Warren Savings Bank in Boston...
...could hardly be a match for this year's $39.95 portable AM-FM that also carries the audio portion of TV channels. Still, the misty veil of nostalgia only enhances the appeal of a Lionel electric train set ($12.79), all-steel coaster wagon ($1.98), 26-piece doll-house ($1.98) or 15-in. mohair Teddy bear...