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Show New dolls have many talents The world of dolls abounds with astonishing new talents, all keyed to making it more difficult than ever to differentiate differen-tiate dolls from real children. Star performers this Yule-tide Yule-tide are the new contingent of baby dolls whose behavior almost al-most exactly reproduces the muscular virtuosity of infants and toddlers and most of the human babies, repertoire of sound effects as well. The muscular activity of the baby is reproduced with fascinating fascin-ating realism by a new infant doll prototype. When this accomplished ac-complished cherub sucks on her bottle she squirms and wriggles wrig-gles in a manner modelled exactly ex-actly after real baby movements. move-ments. There's a doll that laughs when- tickled and another an-other that cries when spanked. A real surprise for even experienced ex-perienced conoisseurs of the modern playroom phenomenon the doll conversationalist is a new pram, wired so that when the doll mother pulls a cord the doll in the pram starts chattering without being be-ing touched at all. Another addition to new doll accomplishments in the vocal area is the inclusion of foreign languages in the doll conversational conversa-tional repetoire. One newcomer doll's accessories include records rec-ords in six languages -besides English and a wardrobe suited to travel in foreign lands, as well as more mundane social occasions at home. The family concept has gained ground in the world of dolls this Yule season. There are more mama and papa dolls and teenage male dolls are included in-cluded in several family sets. The teen dolls have highly realistic accessories including telephones, hi-fi sets, and sports outfits. The sportive . look currently favored in adult fashions is echoed in the fash-I fash-I ion doll world too. Bulky knit sweaters and stretch pants, for example, are . "in" and so are boots. The dressed doll will have at-home costumes, long formal evening dresses and even a collection of ' wigs. A variety of character dolls add a touch of fantasy in intriguing in-triguing contrast to the de- tailed realism of the dolls modelled mod-elled after members of the average av-erage family. "A chip 'on the shoulder us-uallv us-uallv comes from the head." |