Yet Ms. Krall's latest album, "Glad Rag Doll, " shows that such definitions are now themselves out-dated.

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The girl looked like a rag doll, with her striped stockings and limp bangs.

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But the tornado still tossed her around like a rag doll, leaving her bruised.

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If "Glad Rag Doll" is a heartfelt ballad with guitar accompaniment, "Sweet Man" exists in a temporal phantom zone.

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Ms. Krall's "Glad Rag Doll" consists mostly of songs so old that most listeners and reviewers don't even realize they're standards.

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"Glad Rag Doll, " right down to that Victoria's Secret cover, is instantly Ms. Krall's best album and proves not so much that "Everything Old Is New Again, " but that the concept of newness itself has lately become very old.

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Pressing the old rag of a doll to my face, I wept silently.

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