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Realism first entered the world of dolls when spitting up and wetting became optional features. One toymaker has carried it a bit farther this year, though, with a doll (ostensibly designed for children) that "talks" when you toss it around...
Actually, when you throw it against a wall or very high in the air, it begins to moan; after about 15 seconds, it manages a husky "I love you." The doll's name? "Dumpelina." Swear...
...other hand, almost the only dolls included in this collection come from Europe and North America. Everyone in the Common Market, everyone in Scandinavia, almost the entire Eastern bloc--but not a single nation in Africa, or the Far East, or Latin or South America. There is a doll garbed in traditional Mexican costume--her skin is just as fair and her cheeks just as rosy as the Norwegian doll next to her on the shelf...
When one football team beats another into doll rags like Harvard did Penn this weekend, it leaves you a lot of time to let your eyes wander away from the field and see what's going on in the rest of the stadium...
...marital situation comedy a bit like A Doll's House turned upside down. Candida (Joanne Woodward) treats her husband James Morell (Ron Parady) rather like a doll. When the poor devil is thoroughly terrified that she will leave him for the ardent young poet Marchbanks (Tait Ruppert), Candida elects to stay put, and domestic tranquillity is restored...