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...those ridiculous shoe-box dioramas. But let's admit it: we finished most of our assignments on the bus ride to school--and who even bothered with the stuff until after the requisite hours had been spent alphabetizing baseball cards, gabbing on the phone or watching reruns of Gilligan's Island...
...Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine) by Mary Pipher and the many copycat books that followed. Pipher, a clinical psychologist in Lincoln, Neb., argues that many girls lose themselves in adolescence, just as Ophelia, the tragic figure in Shakespeare's Hamlet, did. Popularizing the work of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, Pipher urges the parents of adolescent girls to help their daughters avoid emotional traps like depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts. The book spent nearly three years on the best-seller lists, and continues to be popular...
...with strong sales this fall. Generally, the fourth quarter, which includes Halloween and Christmas, accounts for half of all toy sales. But like the recording and movie industries, the toy trade is driven by hits. So far this year, "there isn't a superhit toy out there," says Eugene Gilligan, executive editor of the toy-industry trade publication Playthings. "The biggest hit for the past year has been Beanie Babies, and Toys 'R' Us doesn't even carry them." But retailers have high hopes for several potential breakout toys, from a microchip-loaded version of venerable Legos building sets...
...GILLIGAN...
...this is not unusual. But, gee whiz, little buddy, you too? BOB DENVER, enshrined in the psyches of a generation of TV watchers as the emblem of clownish naivete, a fawn facing down the elements on an uncharted desert isle with nothing but innocence...well, you get the picture. Gilligan got busted for weed possession. The narcs caught Denver after he signed for a package containing about 25 grams of marijuana sent to him mail order, and officers searched his home, finding more marijuana and "marijuana paraphernalia." Sounds more like the kind of thing Maynard G. Krebs would...