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BARBIE, the doll's most famous and desired the world, hated by feminists, the subject of essays and lectures, wonder, and monster with his huge body and life vanishing, taking pen and paper decided to churn out its version of American history.
Mrs. celluloid, passed unscathed through his forty years without a single wrinkle or stretch mark arrived to mar the personal novel Dorian Gray, author of an editorial is nothing short of encyclopedic: in several volumes, each lasting a decade, chose to tell the story of his hometown. Work in the United States has seen the light earlier this month published by Golden Books .
base year 1964, when he launched the Civil Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act that put an end to segregation laws in force until then. It is no accident, because his ventriloquist, writer for children Linda Lowery, a former baby sitter, a flight attendant, a cook and a painter with "the obsession of the Apes: I love them," was commissioned by Mattel - manufacturer of the doll - to provide a "social conscience", investigating the recent past where the blonde pin up attend the funeral of Martin Luther King , dance track with the Beatles, and provides severe lessons of feminism little sister Skipper.
revenge on all who were accused of food consumption, to encourage young girls to anorexia as did the National Eating Disorder Association in 1994 in a tight campaign in supermarkets stars and stripes. Now she will get in the chair giving lessons. Accompanied by her friends of which are equipped with Ruth Handler and the martyr, who invented in the '59 named after her daughter Barbara.
Dolls that over the decades have become adapted to the modern dancers, college students, astronauts, until the turning point came when ethnic marketed the first black Barbie. Like Christie, in which the first volume with the eloquent title "Peace, Love and Rock 'n' Roll", devotes ample space. Although, to hear Bob Thompson of the Washington Post, seems unrecognizable in the glossy pictures of the first diary.
Sent as a photographer from the newspaper he works for, this Barbie emancipated who abandoned the outfits of pink tulle style Sandra Dee, is accompanied by Christie in Washington for a service on the Reverend Martin Luther King. But the surprise at her side appears a second lady who sports a pink complexion identical to his best friend, there is no trace of dark skin. Questioned on the matter nor the author nor the publisher nor Mattel has been able to give details. Moreover, even dell'afroamericanità the friend is never mentioned. One thing that spinosetta
to undermine the progressive launch of the operation. What you look closely, she shows some obvious gap. The story begins in fact January of '64, six weeks after the assassination of Kennedy . But Barbie seems unaware of the event and makes no mention of it. It still seems more forgetful when ignores the conflict in Vietnam and the Cold War . In those days undertook to enjoy delicious fish and chips. The author explains that it is no coincidence that the reference to food is intended to help young girls suffering from eating disorders to make peace with the weight of the obsession, even though the drawings of Barbie has the same personnel scream doll plastic, saturated fat or not. About the historical forgetfulness
Lowery said the calm that the events depicted are only some particular events of the time. The criteria for choosing? "In the diaries there is nothing that Mattel does not want." The second book, "Red, White and Blue Jeans", is all focused on the bicentennial of the American Revolution, and the platinum miss quite a good job as symbols to celebrate independence and emancipation. And Christie? Problem solved: no.
(April 9, 2005)
Day by day, minute by minute, you might say, the past was made aware of [George Orwell, 1984]
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