Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approached the unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after opening, a seven-year-old girl broke the ice, bought a 2 milreis doll. The cash register has been banging ever since...
...would have taken a Gustave Doré to do justice to the big beauty of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. No Dore, Disney peoples his classical Olympus with smirking "centaurettes," smirkingly brassiered, with calf-eyed centaurs and kewpie-doll cupids, makes Bacchus' bacchanale look like a nursery lemonade party, leaves his audience wondering whether he is serious, or merely trying to be cute by putting diapers on Olympus...
...pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...
...adventure in which Seabrook, using black magic and a nail-studded doll, al most killed a French wizard who had cast a deadly spell over Mrs. Seabrook...
...Rousseau windows, which he had already tried out in Hollywood, Saks's perky window designer James David Buckley chose six typical lush, salad-like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser Buckley made each window represent a phase in the life of a woman. Rousseau's Portrait of a Young Girl, bloatedly enlarged, became "Her Awkward Age"; his Sleeping Gypsy, complete with mandolin and prowling lion, "Her Bohemian Period." Unlike previous art-conscious window displays, Buckley's contained no merchandise. Sole...