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Under the white walls and blue-and-gold cupolas of the Sergiyev Posad monastery, the row of vendors selling nesting dolls and other traditional Russian handicrafts is noticeably shorter this summer. Usually the cheap folding tables, set up in a double row outside the spiritual center of the Russian Orthodox Church, are surrounded by tourists snapping up the iconic egg-shaped souvenirs, made of smaller and smaller wooden dolls hidden one within the other. But on a recent Thursday afternoon, there were only about a dozen people looking to buy. At one table, Olga Isakova waited on her first customers...
...Jackson who, for the past 20 years, seemed so remote as to be extraterrestrial - the moonwalking moon child. But that was just the last of many Michaels who fascinated, seduced and troubled the world of popular music. In his first prodigious eminence, at 11, as the Cupid and Kewpie doll of the Jackson 5, he was no more complicated than he was adorable: the family singing group's star, dimpled and lithe, the young emperor of elfin cool. Five of Katherine and Joe Jackson's nine kids were in the group, which had a slew of hits for Motown Records...
AMERICAN GIRL accidentally names new doll after domestic terrorist wanted by the FBI for arson...
That's the trick of ventriloquism: it puts the taboos in someone else's mouth. The humans in the room are innocent, including the one with a hand up the doll's shirt. "Peanut and Walter get away with stuff we'd all like to say but we can't because we have sort of a valve," says Dunham. "Sometimes I shut that valve...
...arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. For one or two years I was throwing arms and legs and hands and feet at the audience if they wanted them. And then last year I moved on to thousands of these really cheap sex dolls. We had races and whoever inflated their sex doll the fastest received copies of a book or something...