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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kids can peer into a cluster of miniature houses and view the lives of all different types of Bostonians. Barbie-doll sized humanoids carry on the everyday activities that typify modern life...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Hanging Out at the Children's Museum | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

Toymakers are selling nostalgia and reality themes -- sometimes together. Hasbro is bringing back the original foot-high G.I. Joe. Today he speaks Chinese and Arabic and wears Desert Storm fatigues. Watch for a Saddam doll that won't quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Feb. 17, 1992 | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...having a body that didn't look like a Barbie doll were a congenital defect. Now, a serious operation is as routine as a visit to the hairdresser...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Barbie Doll Hell | 2/7/1992 | See Source »

Henrik Ibsen wrote his three-act play, Ghosts, in response to the critical furor engendered by his unabashedly pro-feminist play, A Doll's House. Instead of depicting a woman who abandons a condescending husband, Ghosts portrays a resolute female protagonist who suffers the after-effects of loveless marriage...

Author: By Mark Zelanko, | Title: Family Life Haunted by Ghosts | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...mother named her Nora after Ibsen's feminist in A Doll's House, and she certainly slammed the door noisily when leaving her first two marriages. But she and her current husband Nicholas Pileggi are more like Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora -- for one thing, they have been making much of their living off of crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Repossess A Life: NORA EPHRON | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

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