Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Borg's pockets for promoting breakfast cereal, bread, soft drinks, leisure shoes and clothes, sunglasses, tanning lotion, key rings, pencils, erasers, posters, calendars, confections (a Borg candy bar is sold in Europe), blue jeans, jewelry, glucose tablets, men's cologne, liquor (in Brazil) and a Bjorn Borg doll. One year he posed with two Swedish sewing machines for a company that wanted to salute "three Swedish champions." This fall a Borg-authored tennis column will begin appearing in British newspapers. Next month, for $125,000 plus royalties, a French picture agency will be permitted to photograph Borg...
...Baronova, Muriel Bentley, Sono Osato, Nora Kaye, Annabelle Lyon, Violette Verdy. Against a deeply shadowed backdrop, Chase seemed to appear in her old roles: actually dancers were costumed as the young girl who dances the prelude in Les Sylphides, the greedy virgin in Three Virgins and a Devil, the doll in Petrouchka, the Columbine in Carnaval, the eldest sister in Pillar of Fire, the stepmother in Fall River Legend, Juno in The Judgment of Paris, the fourth song in Dark Elegies, Queen Clementine in Bluebeard and the regal imperious Mother to such Princes in Swan Lake as Rudolf Nureyev...
Revenge detonates a little explosion of doom for the sake of personal-and usually rather temporary - satisfaction. But some say the practice of vengeance has its salutary, cleansing effect. Better for the circulation, they say, to liberate that maniacal little Nietzsche doll that jumps up and down inside all of us than to let him tear apart his cage...
Hitler reappears later after he sinks back into Wagner's grave. He is a puppet. A mannequin. A marionette. A ventriloquist's doll. "Is this the world you pit against mine?" he asks. "In the United Nations, 110 out of 159 countries torture and murder, so each time the U.N. votes, a purely democratic majority votes for inhumanity. Without the extinction of the Indians, the progress in America would have been impossible. I am immortal as long as the world exists," he says, as the ventriloquist undresses him through a series of suits and costumes. "Well done...
...characters and the play seem to fall apart. Almost arrogantly having refused help from James, Sarah joins a "cause"-putting deaf and hard-of-hearing people on the school staff. James complains that he wants to "rest his hands." Finally, in an echo of A Doll's House, Sarah resolves to be utterly her own woman until she can meet James again in some space that transcends silence and speech...