CHEERS.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 03-JAN-05

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It's lucky that dolls can sit still longer than human beings. If a doll bellies up to a bar and orders a beer, she'll have to wait while the bartender puts three drops of resin into a miniature stein, adds a dot of yellow dye and three drops of hardener, and then stirs the mixture sixty times with a toothpick. If the doll wants a convincing head of foam on the glass, it's easy enough for the bartender to make one--all he has to do is flick a little spackling compound on top--but, unless the beer has already hardened for a day, the foam...

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