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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
: Answers
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