Word: patches
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Everyone knew better. His hairline slowly edged away from his eyebrows over the next few years, forking in the middle of his head sometime around junior year. By the time he donned a graduation cap, there was nothing underneath it but a small triangular patch of growth bordered by shiny skin, and framed by an otherwise healthy supply of black curly waves on the sides of his head...
...Universe. The latter group includes the Glo Worm Musical World (remember the Plastic Exploding Inevitable?), Care Bear Cousins, Hugga Bunch Dolls, Pianosaurus, My Little Pony with Pony Wear Clothes and Jewelry, Baby Hugs or Tugs (take your pick, I guess), Rainbow Brite and Co., and finally the Cabbage Patch Dimensional Gift Set. It's war of the masses all over again...
Amidst all this fooliness there are two entries listed in the Child World which I find genuinely objectionable. The first is a minority version of a Cabbage Patch kid, called Bambo. Neither the appelation nor the fact that the girl doll's hair has been bleached blond can be construed as anything but a regrettable holdover from the days of Amos 'n' Andy. My suggestion is that these dolls should be beamed out into space along with broadcasts of that show...
...entrepreneurially-minded alum seems to think every Harvard alumni child needs a varsity letter sweater for his Cabbage Patch doll...
...that hasn't stopped Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University from trying to patch up "the family" by joining a consortium of private and public investors which this month announced they will buy the Bucs for $22 million...