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...DOLL Text by Carl Fox. Photographs by H. Landshoff. 343 pages. Abrams. $30. Once past the pretentious text, which suggests that doll making is some sort of high art, the reader is confronted by pages of handsomely photographed blank stares from a vast assortment of practice babies and surrogate siblings for the young, as well as those slightly sinister dolls for adults-voodoo effigies for black magic...
...Dinh Nhu, the beautiful doll-like sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem, once ruled Saigon social life like a pirate queen. She censored movies, organized women's militia units and fiercely denounced all opposition. When a Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest Diem's repression, Mme. Nhu ridiculed the immolation as a "barbecue." Touring abroad when her husband and Diem were slain in 1963, Mme. Nhu took up residence in a commodious, ocher-colored Roman villa purchased with funds the family had accumulated during the years of power. Now 48, she still lives there with...
...Hooray for Eleanor McGovern [Oct. 9]! At last there could be a woman in the White House who is willing to stand up and be counted for what she believes, who is capable of discussing issues and who would be more than a china-doll First Lady. How interesting to contrast her style with that of Mrs. Nixon, who can say after a cross-country trip that she didn't see any problems...
...nose first. His still flattened nose is a constant reminder of that day, especially when he walks into a multimirrored bathroom of the 40-room mansion he owns in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. The mansion also sports swastika flags on many of the ceilings, as well as a man-size doll hanging by its neck in the ballroom. When concert tours and promotional appearances do not beckon, Alice can usually be found in his Greenwich "pad," curled up in an armchair with a six-pack of beer, seeking further inspiration from...
...rest of the world does not have that consolation, and all 750,000 copies weren't run off for the Harvard-Radcliffe community. What the outside faces is a series of articles running from "Barbi Speaks Out She's More than Just a Kewpie Doll" by the significantly named Randy Parley (Barbi's biggest bitch is that she has no sex organs) to "Dear Cosmopolitan," letters written by the equally significantly named Claire de Lune, Phillipe O'Faith and Ann Cephalitis. In between the Lampoon manages to hit highpoints ("Been Up so Long it Looks Like Down...