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INDUCTED. RAGGEDY ANN, 87, wholesome redheaded doll; into the National Toy Hall of Fame, joining such icons as Barbie and Mr. Potato Head; in Salem, Ore. With the support of letter-writing fans, Raggedy Ann won the honor after being passed over four times...
...Costello's best in a long time, because of how often he returns to that clever post-punker mode. Instead of seeming dated, these moments feel right in tune with the current resurgence of guitar rock, and songs such as Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) and 45 are as good as the better songs by any of Britain's current up-and-comers. He may be getting as fleshy as the original Elvis, but at this rate he'll never be as irrelevant...
...shopping center; by a Japanese district court in Naha. The incident was the latest in a string of public relations debacles for the U.S. military in Okinawa, whose personnel number some 26,000. Woodland has been sentenced to 32 months in jail. INDUCTED. RAGGEDY ANN, 87, wholesome redheaded doll, into the U.S. National Toy Hall of Fame, joining such icons as Barbie and Mr. Potato Head; in Salem, Oregon. With the support of letter-writing fans, Raggedy Ann won the honor after having been passed over four times. RESENTENCED. KRISHNA MAHARAJ, 63, British baron of banana imports who spent...
...Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...
Louise Bourgeois’s triptych, “Obese Bulimic Anorexic” (2001), deals with similar issues of control, self-loathing and aggression in a slightly more obvious way. Composed of stuffed, flesh colored stockings, her figures resemble homemade dolls, maybe even a variant of the voodoo doll or a reference to the fertility goddess, the Venus of Willendorf. The three figures play out an ambiguous progression of weight gain, emotional trauma and aging. Their armless bodies are scarred with seams betraying surgery, deformity or self-mutilation...