European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Arbi doll icon or sexist Symbol new York times s Ultra feminine forms and doll like trills recapture the fashion scene this season. Barbie at ago a is being taken very seriously. Popularity is nothing new to the shapely 11 the Inch plastic doll whose Tan club members number More than 600,000 and whose sales total More than in million a year. Yet the doll recent research suggests has become More than a doll. Having dressed through the decades As a fashion Model Best intend and Bride she is now an object of pop Art. Barbie is viewed Asen icon of american culture in her new biography. Barbie her life and times Crown. �25written by Billy boy a clothing and jewelry designer in Paris. In the department of popular culture at Bowling Green slate University in Ohio she is treated As a Symbol of consumer culture and a barometer of latitudes toward women. And she ploys the leading role in Superior an experimental my about the Lile and anorexia related deals of the Singer Karen Carpenter now showing on video Al the new museum on lower Broadway in Manhattan according to Laurie Simmons a new York photographer of dds who was commissioned by vanity fair Magazine to do a 25lh-annivcr5ary portrait of Barbie there la a Barbie doll is thelic in popular culture. Billy boy. Who at age 27 has collected about 11,000 Barbie dolls Calls it a  he spent 10 years researching his Book which he said merges the worlds of fashion and  his Barbie a pastel coloured compendium of photographs and commentary documents Barbie s lifespan through her outfits and accessories born a Busly. Bathing Suil Clad Leen age fashion Model in the 1959 Mattel catalogue. Barbie in the both is shown dressed for Success As Campus Bella career girl and student teacher in the mid-1960s As a nurse and a doctor by 1973. And most recently As a Silver gilded astronaut and glitter Rock Star the Book finishes with 53 pages of Barbie in fashions by Couturier like Yves Saint Laurent Kenzo and Perry Ellis the photographs draw from Bony boy s the new theater of fashion an exhibition of his own collection of the designer dressed dolls which poured the United states and France in 1985 and 86. While he or the May my she is no More than a mannequin Billy boy refers to Barbie As a Lile  every woman has a Barbie Quality about her he said. Marilyn Motz. A professor of popular culture at Bowling Green state has a different View. The whole Point of the Barbie doll is that she owns things and buys  said Molz. Who published a study of Barbie in 1983. She said that the doll if copied to scale As a life size woman would have a Torso measuring 33 inches Al the bust in inches at the Waist and 28 inches at the hips a feminine Ideal that she pointed out is almost not possible  Todd Haynes a 1986 graduate of Brown University s program in semiotics and the creator of the film superstar said Barbie is a loaded cultural icon thai stands for a whole prescribed femininity that Little girls Are confronted with at an Early  according to Billy boy Barbie s current collection of glitzy metallic spacesuits like the ornate outfits now modelled by her High fashion human counterparts a a a sorry sign of the times. With his feeling groovy Barbie doll Sot designed this year Tor Mattel. Billy boy has created his own doll Ideal. The doll Black haired and Pale skinned wears a simple Pink min dress Large earrings Black sunglasses and a tight lipped smile. Ahtzy Vail America s Premier ski resort by Brad Smith United press International a Quarter Century ago. When skiing still was the spoil of a Hardy Tow. Hocks ols Heep grazed along the Banks of Crystal Clear Gore Creek in the Colorado Rockies. Gore Creek is still there and so is its clarity. Bui the sheep Are gone. As far As the Eye can see Sheie Are condominiums Plush lodges glitzy stores and is Laurants. This is Vail the town some believe looks Liko it was bum by a Hollywood set designer Tho ski resort that sol die Standard by which most other ski resorts now arc judged. Tho development that was in the right place Al the right time. Am circa was ust beginning to Lind Lime and Money Lor Leisure and the inclination for some Al Nellc thrills when Vail opened Lor business on dec. 15, 1962. Several other ski resorts Brockenridge Steamboat Springs and crested Bulte to name a Lew started about Iho same Lime but Vail quickly became the Des Malion Lor the new generation of skiers. Vail was big when it opened Tho third largest in the uni cd slates at the Lime but that size seems minute by today s standards. In 1962 it opened Wilh the nation s first Gondola two double choir lists and a Poma lilt. There were 676 acres of skiable terrain. Now skiers at Vail have the Choice of 19 lists including a Gondola and 1,880 acres. Its sister resort Down the Valley Beaver Creek oilers another boo acres of trails and nine lists. With nearly 1.3 million skiers last season compared to 55,000 the first year. Vail is no the most popular and largest ski resort outside Europe Vail Mountain did t even have a name when a part time ski patrolman irom Aspen climbed its Summit in search of uranium in 1954. The ski patrolman Earl Eaton thought he had found something and told his Friend Pete ssi Berl who was managing another ski area Al the time. It looked to me like the perfect ski Mountain Seibert said recently. Scibert and three others hoping to hide their plans with an innocuous name formed the trans Montane Rod and gun club and began purchasing land in the Valley in 1957, Seibert said the originators wanted to build a resort hat was a Cross Between Aspen which they found too free Wheeling and Sun Valley which they considered too restricted. They bought the land a sheep ranch Lor $150 an acre. Thai same acre now is Worth $3 million. Vail s Competition with Aspen started almost immediately. Aspen tried la get the Forest service to deny a use permit so Vail could construct its slopes and put up the lifts. Shortly after Vail opened Seibert was sent a gag award from Aspen they gave me first place for sneaky Pele Yness Seibert said. He said Vail has always tried to slay ust a Filla less expensive than Aspen something that holds Irue today for lilt ticket prices. The year Vail opened Seibert and his partners were worried because just Days before the opening there was Lille Snow. Bob Parker a Friend of Seibert from their Days in the army s 10th Mountain division of ski soldiers came up with a publicity Slunt he hoped would payoff. Parker Vail s marketing director gathered a group of Southern Ute Indian dancers and asked them to perform a Snow dance. The indians did their dance drawing the publicity Parker sought h also began snowing within a few hours. Members of the same tribe including one of the original dancers performed Iho same dance this year. Under the direction of the resort s operating company a Village designed to look like in had been picked up and town in from Bavaria was Buat Al the base of the Mountain. The town of Vii incorporated in 1966, now has a permanent population of 5,000. With acco Modalion for another 30,000, and the second largest free bus service in Colorado. There we More than 80 bars and restaurants. Seibert now is gone ousted in a management shuffle and Parker has retired. Tow Man who runs Vail today George Guetl has even bigger plans Lor the ski resort plans that eventually would link Vail and Beaver Creek with a 10-mile series of mis those plans go Lyell said depend to a great Tell on the future growth of skiing. Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday january 13,1938