Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please never again dignify in print Jane Russell's flippant and too earthy observations concerning God: "He's a Livin' Doll" [TIME, June 28]. It is the most tasteless comment, theological or otherwise, that I have ever heard...
...goin' to buy a paper doll that I can call...
...doll that other fellows cannot steal...
...Mask plunges abruptly into a nightmare evocation of Parisian gaiety, with pleasure seekers as dazed as opium eaters thronging a ballroom that resounds to the thunder of Gay Nineties music. When a doll-like male dancer collapses amid the frenzy, he is hustled belowstairs to a cubbyhole as though there could be no reminder of human ills at the frolic. A reluctant doctor (Claude Dauphin) is pulled away from a pliant girl to attend the patient and discovers that, under an ingenious, dandified mask, the sick man is an aging wreck. Dauphin takes the broken dancer home and listens reflectively...
...skin "you almost never see except on the bodies of idealized nudes on semipornographic wall calendars," First Wife Elizabeth accommodatingly dies of a heart attack. But the strain of living with a growing boy in turn proves too much for Second Wife Jane, and she takes to the Hollywood doll house...