Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's nothing I like better than driving down the road with one hand on a bottle of booze and the other around my favorite doll...
...songs themselves carry through fairly faithfully with Simon's claimed themes. "Baby Doll Love" depicts the sexual charms of young girls, and "A Million Miles from Happiness" discusses love, faith, disappointment, and heroin. In addition to the nine original cuts on the album, the opening track, "I Want You Back," is a cover of a song originally written by Dave Faulkner, of the Australian band Hoodoo Gurus. Simon provides an interesting synth-pop adaptation of this wild tune, but the more driving and sincere Gurus version remains vastly superior...
Seriously, this doll stuff has got to go. Further dolls include pound puppies, teach and play kids, wide-eyed or sleepy real babies, kari-me babies, koosas, etc. Robots, too, now serve as companions, as shown by Omnibot, Omni 2000 (a steal at $399.97), Pester Puppy and Cat (why does the feline cost $20 more than the pooch?) and Alphie II. How are today's kids ever going to learn to deal with other tots who want different things for lunch and who who bleed if you bang them off furniture? Nothing is sadder than the five-year...
Amidst all this fooliness there are two entries listed in the Child World which I find genuinely objectionable. The first is a minority version of a Cabbage Patch kid, called Bambo. Neither the appelation nor the fact that the girl doll's hair has been bleached blond can be construed as anything but a regrettable holdover from the days of Amos 'n' Andy. My suggestion is that these dolls should be beamed out into space along with broadcasts of that show...
...entrepreneurially-minded alum seems to think every Harvard alumni child needs a varsity letter sweater for his Cabbage Patch doll...