Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explained the vindicated principal: "The couples are good at school and exceptionally hardworking. They had been going steady for a long period . . . Nobody wanted to force them to get married, but they remained true to each other and did so. Now they have settled down happily and their 'doll marriages' are touchingly beautiful." Reported one of the young mothers, 19, preoccupied with both schoolbooks and a six-month-old boy: "Since the baby arrived, my husband and I have had no free time and have been forced to do all our homework at night. Marriage, pregnancy and diaper...
...gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which had the audience giggling merrily, and as the lovelorn doll in Petrouchka, which had it misty-eyed...
...slight. Never robust, the plot consistently thins: from the rivalry of the bordello madams emerge no comic explosions, nor any satiric didoes from the gentility of the girls. In the second half, House of Flowers craves a sea breeze to dispel its island languor, a human note for its doll-like, bird-like world...
...youngest child-mother in the medical records: 15 years ago a Peruvian girl, believed to be no older than five, bore a 6-lb. boy. Before she left the hospital hale and hearty at week's end, Felicia posed in bed with her baby and prized doll. ¶ A plan to make color films of patients under psychoanalysis was broached by Dr. David Shakow of the National Institute of Mental Health. Purpose: to show the films to groups of other analysts, enabling them to study each other's cases without having to rely on the sometimes faulty memory...
...Mama Doll Song (Patti Page; Mercury). Mother instinct takes over, with bosomy Patti lovingly imitating the cry of a mechanical doll in waltz tempo, all undisturbed by Freudian implications. Bestseller-bound...