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...plotline is packed with twists and turns that are far more clever (and thus more rewarding) than those of the average thriller. The suspense begins when Sam Hendrix (Mike Yank '02) is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. The woman promptly disappears--until small-time hoods Mike Talman (Joseph Nuccio '00) and Carlino (Jerry Ruiz '00) find her body in Suzy Hendrix' apartment, placed there by their new employer, Harry Rote (Paul Monteleoni '01). Suzy's blindness allows them to search the apartment for the doll, which contains smuggled heroin. Mike manages...
...market for professionally written term papers, a retirement community in Florida designed to offer its residents a 24/7 Disney World experience, celebrity quick-change artists like Madonna and Michael Jackson and a woman who underwent 20 plastic surgeries to remake herself in the image of a Barbie doll. He points out the difference between the "inner-directed" character valued in America's past--composed of personal qualities and goals inspired by one's upbringing--and today's "other-directed" character, in which a person attains value through the opinions of others and through emulating those one admires...
BARBIE A babe since 1959 and now worth almost $2 billion in sales annually, Barbie was fashioned by Ruth Handler Mattel's co-founder. The first doll wore a swimsuit and cost $3. Over the year Barbie's had 30 relatives and companions, but only one boyfriend...
...prayer and the conspirators against her being assassinated--this capo of England never chooses to become "Godmother." And without Elizabeth's complicity in her own fate, the consquences of her power lack the tragic heft of Pacino's deeds at the end of The Godfather Part II. The china doll face...
...before Christmas, prime time for scalping. You're stuck with a K Mart waiting list and cheerful lies from salespeople: "We'll call you soon." Makes you wanna gouge those adorable Furby eyes right out of their electronic sockets. So who's to blame? How did a little fuzzy doll become crucial to your eight-year-old's survival...