Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Have you seen the "Jerry Ford doll"? You don't wind it up-you help...
Comedians ask: "How can a man who works in an Oval Office paint himself into so many corners?" They tell audiences about "the Jerry Ford doll"-wind it up and it lurches into something. The jokes are even spreading abroad. On an Israeli TV show, "President Chevrolet" greets some Israelis at the White House by saying how pleased he is to "welcome this distinguished group of Egyptians to the Kremlin." Other jokes making the rounds...
...photograph like "Mrs. Mulhall and Child, Ozark Family, Arkansas, 1935" may seem casually taken, yet it is a perfect picture. The mother, child and doll are incongruous in size, expression, and surface texture. They are also rather desperately poor. Another photograph of these subjects could have been chaotic or shocking or both; Shahn's is tied together formally by intricate series of triangular rhythms and rescued from pathos by the contentment of the child and the alert concern of its mother...
...Oxenberg, in Home Movie, chronicles her gradual realization that she is a lesbian, narrating her story as we watch old home movies of her playing mother with her doll, tap dancing away, and at a later age, cheerleading...
Ralph will make do with the name "doll" if you don't bother to tell him what they really call you. Every so often we come across one another in Central Square. I'm not sure when he decided that I read poems, but this is indeed something that I happen to do from time to time. It is the only thing he knows about me, and I have to admit that it doesn't make my life seem very remarkable. So I let Ralph call me "doll...