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...John Fowles is arachnid. In The Collector, his brilliant first novel, the central character is a spidery psychopath who ensnares a pretty girl and plays with her as a child plays with a doll, not consciously meaning any harm, until the poor thing falls apart. In his second novel, Fowles repeats his pattern but not his success...
...Coop has also dropped five other items his firm makes, Dietz said, including the "Six-Footer" doll and the "Little Laurie" doll, which he called the best-selling doll in the store. The Coop is his best customer, he added, and said he would like to continue selling to them...
...Remarkable Invention. In 1956, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman condemned both the prurience and lechery in Baby Doll-a judgment delivered in the exercise of a right, but nonetheless one widely criticized as employing a pulpit so powerful that the denunciation amounted to censorship. But a change of climate was taking place, and in 1957 Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Miranda Prorsus (The Remarkable Inventions) suggested that Catholics should be more concerned about encouraging good movies than condemning bad ones...
...Doll's House...
...because many of the goods it would like to sell-bicycles, sewing machines, textiles-proved so inferior that the Germans would not buy them. Hungary has a glut of poor-quality textiles, including cheap shirts labeled in English "The Very Honorable, Foreign Made," also produces cheap shoes called Baby Doll to compete with those from Czechoslovakia's Communist-owned Bata shoe factory. Unable to sell either item to the West, Hungarian companies were forced to unload them on home consumers at cut-rate prices...