[…] because the left leg of her tights has exhibited symptoms of the defect in the warp known as a Jacob's ladder.

Barbie is viewed as an icon of American culture in her new biography, Barbie: Her Life and Times (Crown, $25), written by Billy Boy, a clothing and jewelry designer in Paris.

People have this image of us. They think we're cock rock. It's time to rein it in a bit. We're not going, Wahey! and pouring champagne on girls' tits.

The disturbance brought out many of the neighbors in their nightclothes.