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Barbie's large breasts make sense as a function of her time--postwar America. Breasts are emblematic of the home; they produce milk and provide security and comfort. Some of the strangest market research in Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders dealt with what milk meant to soldiers in World War II.
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Barbie's combination of voluptuous body and wholesome image was precisely what Hugh Hefner sought in models for Playboy, which he founded in 1953.
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My Barbie stuff was a mirror of her values. She never told me that marriage could be a trap, but she refused to buy my Barbie doll a wedding dress. She didn't say " I loathe housework," but she refused to buy Barbie pots and pans. What she often said, however, is "Education is power." And in case I was too thick to grasp this, she bought graduation robes for Barbie, Ken and Midge."
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In 1985, Dr. Darlene Powell Hopson and Dr. Derek S. Hopson, two married psychologists, duplicated Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark's experiments using dolls to explore black children's self-esteem. Their results were shocking: they suggested that in the forty years since the Clarks did their research--despite landmark legal decisions, acts of Congress, and the civil rights movement--little had changed. Sixty-five percent of the black children t..
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One factor was the Barbie group at Ogilvy & Mather, the ad agency that had, in the seventies, acquired Carson/Roberts. By 1984--a year after Sally Ride's landmark space flight, the same year as Geraldine Ferraro's historic bid for the U.S. vice presidency--Mattel urged O&M creative director Elaine Haller and writer Barbara Lui to, in Lui's words, "express where women were and where they wanted their daughters to be at the time." Upon hearin..
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It is a saga of mothers and daughters, men and women, hope, despair, passion, and the striving after an impossible "American" ideal. Barbie is an emblem of "femininity," a concept quite different from biological femaleness. Barbie was invented by women for women, and the wrath brought to bear upon Barbie by some women is perhaps wrath deflected from themselves."
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In Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Stephen Bayley tells us that "nothing is as crass and vulgar as instant classification according to hairstyle, clothing and footwear, yet it is . . . a cruelly accurate analytical form." Because Barbie is a construct of class--as well as a construct of gender-- this crass, vulgar, and accurate investigation cannot be avoided. "When it comes to the meaning of things, there are no more powerful transmit..
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Barbie as a class role model, far more than Barbie as a gender role model, may, in fact, be the linchpin of many mothers' continued misgivings about her.
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The mountain range is a warrior.
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Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta |
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I am far from being such a Judge as shall lay any intolerable yoke upon any one's neck.
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We cannot make a law, we must go according to the law. That must be our rule and direction.
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To excuse himself from damage, must say, was ready always and at all times.
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A gentleman of Lincoln's-inn.
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Shall we relieve a man, that trusts when he needs not?
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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) |
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It is a disparagement of the Government, who put an ill man into office.
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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) |
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He whose dirt it is must keep it that it may not trespass.
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Surely the navy must be the navy royal.
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Where a man has but one remedy to come at his right, if he loses that he loses his right.
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Every man that is injured ought to have his recompence.
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John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) |
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If it be a matter within our jurisdiction, we are bound by our oaths to judge of it.
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Besides, for poets it wasn't lying, it was art.
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For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
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Suen, the lord born to command.
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Utu is lord; you should fix your gaze on him.
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Utu, the lord who loves justice, extirpates wickedness and prolongs righteousness.
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Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
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Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
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O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel -- farewell! farewell!
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Lord Byron |
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When we two partedTo sever for years.
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Lord Byron |
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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Lord Byron |
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Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!
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Lord Byron |
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There 's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Lord Byron |
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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Lord Byron |
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That which I am, I am; I did not seekFor life, nor did I make myself.
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Lord Byron |
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Sublime tobacco! which from east to westCheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest.
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Lord Byron |
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Jack was embarrassed -- never hero more,And as he knew not what to say, he swore.
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Lord Byron |
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What's drinking?A mere pause from thinking!
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Lord Byron |
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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Lord Byron |
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Hands promiscuously applied,Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.
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Lord Byron |
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Lord Byron |
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Lord of himself,--that heritage of woe!
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Lord Byron |
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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Lord Byron |
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I loved my country, and I hated him.
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