Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOLL Text by Carl Fox. Photographs by H. Landshoff. 343 pages. Abrams. $30. Once past the pretentious text, which suggests that doll making is some sort of high art, the reader is confronted by pages of handsomely photographed blank stares from a vast assortment of practice babies and surrogate siblings for the young, as well as those slightly sinister dolls for adults-voodoo effigies for black magic...
Another title might be Beyond the Doll's House, for if the book turns out to be all that Liv says it is, it will reveal what Ibsen never did: what Nora found on the other side of that door...
...affair with Bergman, Liv resembled another famous Norwegian woman, Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). Like Nora, Liv was loved and protected but also patronized. "I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald," said Ibsen's heroine to her husband. "But you would have it so." Like Nora, Liv rebelled. As Nora's husband commented shortly before she closed that famous door on her domestic life, "she is terribly self-willed, this sweet little person...
...Dinh Nhu, the beautiful doll-like sister-in-law of President Ngo Dinh Diem, once ruled Saigon social life like a pirate queen. She censored movies, organized women's militia units and fiercely denounced all opposition. When a Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest Diem's repression, Mme. Nhu ridiculed the immolation as a "barbecue." Touring abroad when her husband and Diem were slain in 1963, Mme. Nhu took up residence in a commodious, ocher-colored Roman villa purchased with funds the family had accumulated during the years of power. Now 48, she still lives there with...
...nose first. His still flattened nose is a constant reminder of that day, especially when he walks into a multimirrored bathroom of the 40-room mansion he owns in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. The mansion also sports swastika flags on many of the ceilings, as well as a man-size doll hanging by its neck in the ballroom. When concert tours and promotional appearances do not beckon, Alice can usually be found in his Greenwich "pad," curled up in an armchair with a six-pack of beer, seeking further inspiration from...