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!I LOVE ENDORPHINS!,
Art Deco,
Astronomy,
Beat Culture,
Blues,
Corsets,
Crooners & Songbirds,
Dandyism!,
Edward Gorey,
Elegant Gothic Lolita,
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The Jazz Age (1920s-1940s),
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Barbie as Catwoman Doll
Mon, November 28, 2005 - 3:00 PM
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This 10 1/2-inch glamorous doll is dressed in an enticing pant suit of faux leather "scratch" design. Leather like details include a low-slung belt and shoulder strap with buckles. Accessories include ankle strap high heels and long black patent leather-like gloves inspired by the gloves Halle Berry wears as Catwoman. Manufacturer's age: 5 years and up Toys R Us recommended age: 5 years and up Doll Reviews: I'm a Kid! Only an idiot would get this doll. it stinks and it is freaky to look at. From a parent: AND WHO ARE THE IDIOTS WHO BUY THIS FOR THEIR KIDS??? I'm a girl: BARBIE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO U????!! YOU ARE UN REALISTIC AND TRASHY!!! YEAH I SOW AGREE WITH THE KIDS REVIEW THIS DOLL IS A S-L-U-T DO NOT BUY!!! From a Mom: I really just wanted to rate this doll a single, 5-star rating. I don't think educational value is an issue because it's not supposed to be educational. As for durability, I don't know- I keep mine displayed in the box until my daughter is old enough to play with it. From a collector: I just can't wait to see Ken's reaction to her! Only gripe is the cowl is a little strange when you take it on or off. And the whip could get lost or eaten by a pet pretty easily. But you can have some fun switching out the costume with your other BARBIES! And from the Defamer.com website…'''' Surefire Sign That Your Movie Marketing Department Is About Ten Minutes From Mass Suicide: The last-ditch recruitment of Barbie to promote your lite S&M stinker to the last demographic not poisoned by your movie's negative hype, seven-year-old girls. (Toys sure have changed since I was a kid...)
From the combination of strength and sensitivity of an elephant's trunk to the life-saving camouflage of an ant-mimicking beetle, the living world is populated by creatures that seem miraculously designed for the lives they lead. But these complex and brilliantly effective features cannot have come about by undirected chance. That would be equivalent to scaling the sheer face of the mountain of improbability. The only way to explain seemingly designed objects is by slow, gradual evolution - inching cumulatively, almost infinitely slowly by the standards of human history, up the gentle paths on the far side of Mount Improbable.
Sun, November 27, 2005 - 4:02 PM
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Richard Dawkins guides the reader through the spectacular mountain passes of the natural world. We are led through the silken world of spiders; we are shown how wings gradually sprouted on the bodies of flightless animals; we see how a fig is a garden for its own teeming population of insects; and we learn how the eye has evolved no less than forty times independently. And through all of it runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through geological time.
"Are there not still fireflies
Sat, November 19, 2005 - 6:29 PM
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Are there not still four-leaf clovers Is not our land still beautiful our fields not full of armed enemies our cities never bombed by foreign invaders never occupied by iron armies speaking iron tongues Are not our warriors still valiant ready to defend us Are not our senators still wearing fine togas Are we not still a great people in the greatest country in all the world Is this not still a free country Are not our fields still ours our gardens still full of flowers our ships with full cargoes Why then do some still fear the barbarians coming coming coming in their huddled masses (What is that sound that fills the ear drumming drumming?) Is not Rome still Rome Is not Los Angeles still Los Angeles Are these not the last days of the Roman Empire Is not beauty still beauty And truth still truth Are there not still poets Are there not still lovers Are there not still mothers sisters and brothers Is there not still a full moon once a month Are there not still fireflies Are there not still stars at night Can we not still see them in bowl of night signalling to us our manifest destiny?"
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