Kewpie


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Kew·pie

 (kyo͞o′pē)
A trademark for a fat-cheeked, wide-eyed doll with a curl of hair on top of the head.
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Kew•pie

(ˈkyu pi)
Trademark. a small, plump doll with a topknot.
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The contrast between her Kewpie Doll features, ravaged skull, lithe figure and the ungodly sound coming out her mouth is deeply comic and strange, and nearly worth the investment of $37 and 2 1/2 hours on a Sunday afternoon.
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Also prominently displayed is postmodernism's vision of women as monster kewpie dolls, whose wayward desires require on-screen punishment in movies such as Half Moon Street, Blue Velvet, Mona Lisa, The House of Games and Ironweed.
She still seems awkwardly stuck in the transition from a juve to adult screen presence, and her nondescript turn here isn't helped by an unflattering kewpie doll curly hairdo.
The sets and the two drop curtains by Eduardo Sicangco are an homage to the cartooning style of Held, the illustrator whose Kewpie doll nappers and bellbottomed beaux epitomized the silly, boop-boop-a-doop side of flaming youth they express exactly the spirit of Lady Be Good!
As Roxie, Ruthie Henshall is far too young for someone who admits to being "older than I ever intended to be." (Broadway's inimitable Ann Reinking spoke the same line like a saucer-eyed Lear.) Although Henshall knows when to drop the kewpie doll theatrics and cut to the quick, she's a lilting Roxie who, as of yet and through no fault but that of sheer age, hasn't fully lived.
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Some of the market participants in the global egg protein market identified across the value chain include Davisco Foods International, Inc., Kewpie Corporation, Cargill Inc., Rose Acre Farms, Deb-El Foods, Bouwhuis Enthoven, Wulro BV, Igreca, Sanovo Egg Group, Rembrandt Enterprises Inc., Interovo Egg Group BV, Adriaan Goede BV, and Now Health Group, Inc.
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round, don't miss the standout karaage (fried chicken), served with fresh cabbage and a dollop of Kewpie mayo.
The Peacock studio panel of Patrick Sharp bless im Keith Jones and Liam McHugh was no frills, no Kewpie and just marvelously informative hockey experts.