I have reached the ultimate stage of my response to Sherman's doll pictures.
Ginger dreadlocks fly as Mr Harlaut launches himself almost casually down a slope peppered with obstacles, boxes and rails, and a giant Russian doll (pictured).
Unlike the prim matrons of her first doll pictures, these women blatantly advertise themselves as the sex objects of classic male fantasies.
Most of her significant images were on view, from the early doll pictures to the vastly enlarged "Magnum Opus," an ironically titled summing up of her more recent work; twenty feet long by eight feet high, it showed six of her walking, sitting, or lying objects on a mirrored floor.
Where the real-world Barbie doll was once the basis of the Barbie brand, Mattel's Monster High, another highly successful modern range of ghoulish fashion dolls (pictured), started off online.
The South Wales Argus newspaper reports that a local craftgroup, not content to allow the near-coincidence of Royal Wedding Weekend with Easter Weekend to go unobserved, have knit their own Royal Bunny Wedding, with some seventy bunny dolls, pictures of which you can peruse on the paper's site.
New research finds that teenagers given lifelike baby dolls (pictured) as part of a program to dissuade them from wanting a real baby became pregnant at a higher rate than peers in a control group.
While you're at it, you can attempt to break 2013's record for longest chain of paper dolls, pictured above.
In Bayreuth, Roland Wagenfuhrer, not otherwise long on ferocity in this unsettlingly hot-and-cold part, held Melanie Diener and shook her like a rag doll: a picture as unsettling as I hope ours was.
In the nineteenth century, French dolls in picture books were frequently subjected to harsh discipline at the hands of their not-so-loving owners.
