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THE IMPOSSIBLY CURVY DOLL

More than one billion (0)  have been sold in 150 different countries (1) __________ her first appearance at the New York Fair in 1959. Created (2) __________ Ruth Handler, the daughter of Polish immigrant, and originally known (3) __________ the ‘Teenage Model’ she was a perky blue-eyed blonde. With a ponytail and a black-and-white shirt

It was while she was watching her daughter Barbara playing with cut-outs of adult women (4) __________ Handler came up (5) __________ the idea. (6) __________ the time, dolls in America always took the form of babies. When she first proposed a prototype to executives at the toy company, Mattel, she was turned (7) __________. Later, (8) __________, Handler won over all-male management, and the first toy doll in the USA went (9) __________ production

By the late sixties, she was enjoying the same type of fame (10) __________ music bands. As her world expanded, so (11) __________ the profits, and making well over $100 million a year for Mattel. She took on numerous different identities, (12) __________ as astronaut, vet or surgeon and she acquired many friends, notably Ken, (13) __________ name came from Handler’s son

She was (14) __________ without her critics. Her shapely figure was essentially unattainable and feminists attacked Handler for presenting young girls with (15) __________ image of adult beauty they could never achieve. Handler was not bothered by this. ‘My whole philosophy was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to become,’ she later wrote

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N1 – since

N2 – by

N3 – as

N4 – that

N5 – with

N6 – at

N7 – down

N8 – however/though

N9 – into

N10 – as

N11 – did

N12 – such

N13 – whose

N14 – not

N15 – an