Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impenetrable safety caps on aspirin bottles and rounded off the corners of our furniture; they're the original authors of WARNING: CONTENTS HOT and THIS LADDER IS TO BE USED FOR CLIMBING. Without the CPSC, Americans wouldn't know the dangers of rickety swing sets, toxic crayons or detachable doll's eyes. Last week the CPSC announced that parents shouldn't allow infants to sleep with them in bed, owing to the risk of suffocation, strangulation or death by "overlying"--when a sleeping parent mistakenly rolls onto an infant. This announcement was based on data collected from...
...this movie. It's a beginning, a pretext, for what is, finally, a brilliant exercise in popular but palpable surrealism. The film has the bleached look of a carelessly shot videotape, with, occasionally, what Russell calls "very intense hits of color"--a Bart Simpson doll is one of them--burning through its low-contrast surface. This is how combat appears to us in the new technological age--no terrible beauty, just absurdity's flat, deadly record keeping...
Last night my daughter woke up at 4 a.m. in high spirits and yelled at us until we took her downstairs to the kitchen. She dug into her toy basket and got out her favorite doll, which laughs when you whack it, a perverse invention indeed. My daughter walked the floor with this doll, as if trying to put it to sleep, and my wife and I sat like a couple of refugees and thought blank thoughts and longed for our bed. And then my wife went upstairs and discovered...
...Portuguese meeting hall in San Diego, Calif., the Violent Femmes blare from a corner amp as the putt-putting of engines competes with the squealing of high-pitched horns. Many dozens of motor scooters in burgundies, grays and greens line the parking lot, displaying favored ornaments--a Tinky Winky doll hanging from one, a picture of Rocky and Bullwinkle's Natasha from another. Ahhh, the smell of exhaust fumes from tiny tailpipes. Welcome to the Vespa Club of America's annual rally, which recently drew nearly 300 motor scooterists from all over the U.S. for four days of partying, prizes...
Emerging valiantly from the debris are the two young stars. Dunst, 17, has grown up smartly before the camera; she has poise, wit and great dimples. Richards, 27 but plausibly teenish, uses her huge doll eyes (somehow calculating and dazed) and her brilliant teeth (all 50 or 60 of them, lined up like chorines ready to please the sugar daddies) to make Becky both the apotheosis and the parody of a precocious beauty-contestant pro. These are actresses worth watching, performances worth saving...