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...the lens of absurdist iconography: plaster death masks for the abolitionist John Brown and the fictional pancake syrup spokesperson Aunt Jemima; Russian president Vladimir Putin reimagined as a child’s doll...
...(In the end, his three sons gravitated to toy guns and trucks, not dolls, leading him to conclude it probably wasn’t worth the effort.) The family lived without a fridge between 2005 and 2010....
...He hires a wheedling, needy Norwegian actor as Hedda’s husband (brilliantly played by Joshua James) and Hedda’s real-life ex to play Ejlert Løvborg — who, like Ibsen’s character, is a reformed alcoholic....
...And throughout, he uses A Doll’s House as a template against which to measure progress, with each scene preceded by an extract from Ibsen’s play....
...He called his London crowd “the blackstocking fraternity” — it included Dr Johnson, David Garrick, Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith....
...Jeremy (Ken Nwosu) spots a business opportunity: assuming the alias Face, he and fellow tricksters Doll (Siobhan McSweeney) and Subtle (Mark Lockyer) set up a sorcery scam, fleecing the greedy and the gullible...
...She paints ravishing still lifes — flowers, table tops, food, dolls — in oil and tempera on gesso grounds (a mix of chalk and rabbit-skin glue)....
...Holding one finger up to silence her Papa lest he wake up the doll sleeping in her arms, the blue-eyed charmer gazes sideways with heart-melting candour....
...and on Tuesday night – amid the Alpine cussedness of the Linbury Studio, the stage at its most forbiddingly bare and grimly lit – she offered us four new duets, made especially for her by Kyle Abraham, Joshua...
...Joshua Redman Walking Shadows (Nonesuch)...
...Parents have complained that products such as Bratz dolls have encouraged the sexualisation of children at earlier ages....
...The Pussycat Dolls, Paramore and Korn have also agreed to variations on the 360 theme. Disney, whose roster of stars includes the Jonas Brothers, employs multiple rights deals, as does American Idol....
...There was, for example, the time when the company hired the Goo Goo Dolls, one of the biggest rock groups of the era, to play at a party. “What did we do it for? Gosh, I don’t recall,” Stroman says....
...Early returns suggest the Florida election will not turn on the Doll House vote. Under 100 customers have signed up so far....
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