- The first matrushka.
A team of German paleontologists has unearthed a fossil that preserves one creature inside another that's nestled inside yet another, a Paleozoic version of the Russian nesting dolls known as matrushkas. The unusual find came from material deposited about 290 ......
- The girl who drowned her dolls is offered silkworms.
The silkworm has stopped eating, her velvet cream body grown turgid and pythonesque. Yesterday she rose up and began with her first four pairs of legs to describe large and confident circles in the air, extruding from her homely glands ......
- Huggable warrior of the cross.
Soft Saints, Inc., purveyor of positive role models for today's youth in the form of plush dolls, makes it possible to cuddle with a 15th-century purveyor of divine wisdom--the "Maid of Orleans," Joan of Arc. "Made of soft, pliable leather-like ......
- Verbatim.
"Nothing in liturgy is so obscure that liturgists cannot find points to disagree on." --Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum University, answering o liturgy question for the Zenit news service (Zenit, Nov. 14, 2005) "We can't ......
- Sound of Eye, Wind, and Limb.
Sound of Eye, Wind, and Limb My infants slept when their bodies needed sleep, impostors in luxurious gowns. My infants felt unloved by others while others loved the man-made things, as though they were dolls in a house. One night, ......
- Kenneth C. Benton, 66.
JESUP, GA Kenneth C. Benton, 66, formerly of Whitinsville, died Monday, October 8. He is survived by his sister, Catherine Anton, of Clermont, FL. Mr. Benton was born in Worcester, September 15, 1941, the son of Elmer and Esther (Newton) ......
- Learning from dolls.
A fun, creative approach to environmentally friendly architecture is what you'll find in Green Dollhouse, edited by Fred McLennan, Jill Boone and Jason E McLennan (Ecotone Publishing, $19.95). This colorful, unique book celebrates the fascinating ideas of the winning contestants ......
- Tally of the Dolls.
Barbie has weathered her share of attacks from body-image activists, and Indications has dutifully reported volley after volley. But Malibu's ideal bachelorette is no longer alone in violating the dimensions of physical possibilities. A group of Massachusetts investigators now says ......
- The festival of dolls.
The shiny crown, the toy sword, the wooden scepter, the emperor with his little black cap staring down from the highest shelf, his empress hiding behind her fan: Keiko's house was like that, like looking at another country, a mixture ......
- Comes naturally.
I just want to thank your magazine for ideas and rebellion. This is my story. Mormon boys wear collared shirts and decorate their heads with the latest and most expensive hair gels. Mormon girls are easy on the eyes but ......
- Sweet smelling Bratz.
* Anyone who knows a school-aged girl is probably already familiar with the trendy Bratz doll line. Widely considered to be the "anti-Barbie," Bratz dolls embody modern urban girl personas by way of cutting-edge fashions; wide-eyed, full-lipped, colorfully made up ......
- Toy & collectibles fair at SM.
SM, in cooperation with Collectibles Unlimited, presents the a2nd Annual Toys & Collectibles Christmas Faira from Dec. 21-23, at the SM Megatrade Hall 2. On its second year, the toy fair features the a selection of kiddie toys, dolls, action ......
- Israeli film showing at PWU.
The Development Institute for Women in Asia-Pacific of the Philippine Women's University in collaboration with the Embassy of Israel will present the award-winning film "Paper Dolls" on tomorrow, Nov. 20, 9 a.m. at the PWU Conrado Benitez Hall, Taft campus, ......
- Different dolls. (Discrimination).
A Melbourne University study of 112 mostly Anglo-Australian preschool children has found that the children preferred playing with white-skinned dolls. Four 'anti-bias persona' dolls--Anglo-Australian Olivia and Tom, Indigenous Australian Shiree and Vietnamese-Australian Willie--were used to gauge the reactions of children ......
- Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece.
No less pregnant with symbolism were, we suppose, the Neolithic figurines of southwest Eurasia. Rather like the pearlshells of western Australia, these objects send out different flashes of meaning as we turn them round and round in our archaeological discourses....
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