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262 "It's about being angry about everybody wanting to look like a Barbie": Interview with Maggie Robbins, Brooklyn, New York, January 17, 1993. (All Robbins quotations are from this interview.)
263 "It was definitely cathartic for me . . .": Interview with Susan Evans Grove, New York City, June 23, 1992. (All Grove quotations are from this interview.)
264 "Do you have any female friends who look like me . . . ?": Interview with Julia Mandle, New York City, July 8, 1993. (All Mandle quotations are from this interview.)
265 "I wanted the doll to symbolize this kind of glamorous but secondary position": Interview with Ellen Brooks, New York City, November 6, 1992. (All Brooks quotations are from this interview.)
265 "the outstanding fashion doll . . .": A. Glenn Mandeville, Fashion Doll Anthology and Price Guide (Cumberland, Md.: Hobby House Press, 1987), p. 166.
266 "The early Barbie had an attitude . . .": Interview with Ken Botto, New York City, May 12, 1993.
266 "Barbie Noir": Alice Kahn, "A Onetime Bimbo Becomes a Muse," The New York Times, September 29, 1991.
266 "five hundred years of tourism in this country": Interview with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, New York City, November 28, 1992. (All Smith quotations are from this interview.)
267 "glossy decapitated portrait of a hunky male": Interview with Roger Braimon, New York City, June 22, 1993.
268 "the greatest Romantic expositor . . .": Hollander, op. cit., p. 199.
268 "a man's big white handkerchief: Telephone interview with Dean Brown, February 24, 1993. (All Brown quotations are from this interview.)
270 'To me, Barbie dies when she puts on her wedding dress": Telephone interview with Felicia Rosshandler, April 25, 1994.
270 "In the era of AIDS, I'm overwhelmed . . .": Interview with Charles Bell, New York City, January 27, 1993.
270 Details of The Barbie Project-Interview with Lauren Versel, Sag Harbor, New York, August, 16, 1993.
270 Mattel's authorized Berlin show: Barbie: Kiinstler und Designer Gestalten fiir und um Barbie (Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt Ver-lag GmbH, 1994). (Elke Martensen, pp. 212-213; Holger Scheibe, pp. 154-155; Peter Engelhart, pp. 168-169; Frank Lindow, pp. 202-203.)
271 "I wanted people to look at these images . . .": Interview with David Levinthal, New York City, March, 24, 1994. (All Levinthal quotations are from this interview.)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SLAVES OF BARBIE
276 "I stayed at the Beverly Hilton . . ."; Interview with Fiona Auld, Niagara Falls, July 24, 1992.
280 "The bicycle is the most common transportation means . . .": Carol Spencer speech at the Barbie Collectors' Convention, Niagara Falls, New York, July 24, 1992.
281 "our Barbie Dean": Ruth Cronk, ed., The Noname Newsletter, June 1980, p. 8.
281 "got us started on the right foot . . .": The Noname Newsletter, September 1979, p. 2.
281 "in the process of struggling to hold her still . . .": The Noname Newsletter, January 1980, p. 2.
281 "The following day . . .": The Noname Newsletter, June 1980, p. 2.
281 "The thing that really rings . . ." The Noname Newsletter, February 1980, p. 3.
282 "in the objects that are always there . . .": Werner Muensterberger, Collecting: An Unruly Passion (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 16.
283 "What else are collectibles . . .": Ibid., p. 31.
283 "It's an addiction": Interview with Jan Fennick, Rockville Center, New York, October 17, 1992. (All Fennick quotations are from this interview.)
283 "Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects": Benjamin, op. cit., p. 67.
283 "People today are taking Barbie . . .": Interview with A. Glenn Mandeville, Rockville Center, New York, October 17, 1992. (Unless otherwise indicated, all Mandeville quotations from this interview.)
285 "seems to swish off the page": R. L. Pela, "Malibu White House," The Advocate, January 26, 1993, p. 48.
285 "We're not totally object-oriented . . .": Interview with Karen Caviale and Marlene Mura, New