aThe Barbie doll was first made in 1959 by Ruth Handler. Ruth got the idea of making plastic dolls from her daughter. One day when Ruth saw her daughter playing with a paper doll, she decided to invent a new plastic fashion doll and name it after her daughter Barbara 1959年Barbie玩偶...
Notes Introduction 1 Sadako Kurihara, When We Say 'Hiroshima': Selected Poems (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan, 1999), 20–21. 2 For detailed statistics, see Asahi shinbun, April 27, 2005. 3 Genron NPO, "Dai 2-kai Nikkan kyōdō seron ...
, but Stranger’s Wrath was an excellent way for the series to go out before its sporadic reemergences. It took a familiar genre (that was all-encompassing at that time) and a classic series, and made something completely fresh and new out of them. Very few series before or since have ...
Unfortunately, I still can’t remember David the French guy’s last name, although I remember that the name of his street in his hometown in Brittany was named after a pirate: Surcouf. It was such a funny detail that it has stuck in my head. I wonder what he’s doing now. (I mean...
Fallwould clean up even more than they did in other years.American FictionandThe Holdoversare remarkable films with incredible lead performances.Barbiewas a phenomenon for a reason.Killers of the Flower Moonwould win it all in some years. This is just a very hard year and that’s very good...
the look and feel of casino games and slots but are played for virtual currency. One of the first academic debates centred on what they should be called—different terms were mooted though the term “social” was always a prefix. Calling them social is somewhat of a misnomer, there’s not...
when I hold the rug up, two shades of pink ‘B’ in the middle, for Barbie it’s the first one I finish, alone an object of my own making*the image in this poem is taken from a Boye latch-hook rug-making manual, which can be seen onlinehere. ...
His debut single is “Parang Asianobela,” an Asian pop-inspired track that captures the loneliness and hope that overseas Filipino workers experience. The track was released in July and is available on Spotify. Another song, the Christmas track “‘Di Na Sana Magpapasko,” is out now on ...
done, need a toilet paper. We did not keep her in a nappy all times when she is home but mostly when we are going out with her, thus it was not easier for her to pee or poo in a nappy she would tell you ‘mama, kaa ka’. That time she really want me to take out the ...