For every piece of plastic the U.S. exports to China, the Chinese produce another Barbie doll.
To keep demand up, the Tamagotchi, like the Barbie doll, continually emerges in new colors and designs.
Mr. COLBERT: We've all done backsies, asking for the return of your Barbie doll or baseball card.
The Australian Herald Sun has this (apparently serious) headline: Barbie doll could be used as tool of evil.
What appeared to be a Barbie doll could be seen on the roof of the one-story ranch where the family lived.
There is now a Barbie doll dressed as a happy McDonald's counterperson.
Buy sneakers or a shirt, a piece of furniture or a Barbie Doll, and it probably has Made in China stamped on it.
David spotted Sabina and they got into a discussion about the Barbie doll phenomenon, she warning him that he would be surrounded by them someday.
One of my wife's fondest memories was going to a toy store somewhere in Florida during the primary there to get our youngest a Barbie doll.
"Good surgeon, " nods the man sitting next to me in the cafe, appreciating the designer-draped, tanned and toned Barbie doll who is stilt walking past our table.
However, Sherri Ann, who looks like a Barbie doll on steroids, gets more then she bargained for when she finds herself strangely attracted to the no-nonsense dog expert.
Now everyone wants a ?ack, from the personal trainer with one client ("She was toting a Barbie doll with her as a suggestion for her p.r. campaign theme, " says the appalled publicist) to your local accountant.
To be sure, the Web hasn't been overly kind to the scribe who brought us such pearls as "News flash you stupid c---s: FRATS DON'T LIKE BORING SORORITIES." Shannon's send-up has been joined by other parodies, from a straight-faced version from Alison Haislip of "The Nerdist" to this dramatic reading by a Barbie doll.
The AIA's recent promotion of Mattel's " Architect Barbie" doll as a recruitment tool to interest young girls overlooks the cultural and institutional sexism in the profession.
The :60 spot shows a doll, resembling Barbie, wowed by a male doll in his red Z roadster.
Barbie is a "contestant" on TV's American Idol, and she's hanging out with Hilary Duff, who appears in Mattel's commercials promoting Barbie's doll clothing line, Fashion Fever.
The problem was most acute for Mattel's most profitable product: a pink plastic doll called Barbie.
And toy maker Mattel has not turned the official Mulan doll into an Asian Barbie.
Holiday Barbie and Talk with Me Barbie, a PC-interactive doll, had disappointing sales.
Several decades ago, Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler, saw a Swiss doll called Lilli, voluptuous and wearing heels.
And for all the accolades surrounding the new doll, there's one constant in the Barbie wardrobe that still rankles - all these years and jobs later, Barbie still wears quite a lot of pink.
The Lohan doll is part of Mattel's effort to breathe new life into Barbie, who has undergone few major overhauls since hitting the shelves in 1959.
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