One of the most exciting finds for du Maurier fans is a story called The Doll.
One story Ms Willmore was particularly keen to add to her collection was The Doll.
And politically oriented stores in Washington are being overwhelmed by shoppers looking for the doll.
The store's website, Americastore.com, has already been selling the doll, said district manager Andrea McNiff.
There have been other charges made against the doll, including that she is a bad role model.
It was no wonder because the doll I had played with was a doll in name only.
Two years later Women's Wear Daily and Vogue Japan ran spreads showing the doll wearing miniature designer clothes.
But the same qualities that alienated children now attract adults, who find something compelling in the doll's eeriness.
Likewise, Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut summered close to Wainscott Beach, fetching supplies every day from the doll's-house-sized Sagaponack General Store.
One of the biggest criticisms levelled against the doll is that it portrays an unattainable image for young girls.
LeRoy considered keeping the doll on her desk--a useful tool for responding when someone pitches her a dumb idea.
The doll then makes motions and suckling sounds when a sensor in its mouth comes close to sensors inside the flowers.
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It's no surprise that the doll, with its oversize forehead, neutral facial expression and enormous, alien eyes, didn't appeal to children.
When Garan first saw Blythe, she thought the doll looked like her.
Like the painting, which the Viennese artist completed in 1907, the doll is dressed in a golden gown lavishly patterned with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
In addition, men who held the doll throughout the entire 30-minute experimental period showed bigger declines in testosterone than those who did not.
She bought one on Ebay in 1997 and began photographing it against different backdrops, playing with the scale so the doll would look life-size.
At the time, one of these humble columnists was working at a Jewish culture magazine called Heeb, and decided to blog about the doll.
But while the doll's main objective is busting computer nerd stereotypes, there is one that seems to have slipped through the cracks: those spectacles.
Now more than 80 years after the young author penned The Doll, it will be published in a collection of Du Maurier's other rare stories.
The anthology, also called The Doll, will be released at the beginning of May, just days before the famous du Maurier Festival begins in Fowey.
Zoom Zoom in the doll cradle, perhaps, or tucked in a towel on the floor, its head on a pincushion or a neatly folded Kleenex.
No options for how to integrate electronics in the doll house.
Basically, the idea is to build components for a doll house that include the wires: you can, literally, wire the doll house up for electronics.
And Ms Collis thinks the doll's appeal won't be limited to the pre-teen market - it could become a workplace mascot for female tech support staff.
Where did that brother of mine go, the one who had been happier than I when he gave me the doll he had received as a prize?
He added that the doll previously received a formal endorsement from the Spanish breastfeeding organization FEDALMA, as well as support from members of other international breastfeeding organizations.
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The doll's one interactive feature--a string on the back of its head that allows users to change its eye color with a yank--does little to humanize it.
Wong had approached Hasbro for permission to manufacture the doll in Japan. (Hasbro had acquired Tonka, which acquired Kenner in 1987.) She bought the rights, then hired Japanese toy company Takara for manufacture.
Wong went back to Tokyo and pitched the doll to the Parco department store, which cast Blythe in an animated TV commercial that showed her walking in the snow, her eyes changing color and direction.
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