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CATHERINE CRAM -- Middleton...
...American Girl doesn't push girls to act older," says Ellen Brothers, president of Pleasant Company of Middleton, Wis., which launched the American Girl brand via catalog in 1986. "We're saying, 'Find a friend, and learn everything you can about her and that pivotal point in history.'" This has proved to be a lucrative proposition. To learn everything about, say, Samantha, American Girl's Victorian-era doll, you can buy her complete collection--her books, furniture, clothing and accessories...
...Sandy Middleton, the director of education for VSAarts of Massachusetts, said Abrams was not the type to sit behind a desk all day and was very active within the day-to-day operations of the program...
...Scottish group Arab Strap are reputedly one of the most "honest" bands making music today. Their subjects are bitterness and bad sex, and for critics the lack of boastfulness or titillation in Aidan Moffat's graphic lyrics translates into honesty. Yet these confessional monologues are coated with Malcolm Middleton's shy, down-tempo arrangements, resulting in delicacies baked from teen-angst and vinegar. Theirs is a music of transmogrification--making souffl out of haggis...
...sated and we're tired / At least the bedroom stinks / And we know we're desired." Those lyrics also belie the new lyricism that defines this album. We see it in the repetition of "at least." More than ever before, the lyrics rhyme and revolve around choruses, and Middleton's arrangements are increasingly melodic...