You see their smiling faces everywhere. They have their own birth certificates. Their birthdays are cause for celebration. Legend has it that they are orphans who have been found in a cabbage patch. Each toddler who clutches one of the Cabbage Patch dolls in her arms feels as if she were a mommy.

Cabbage Patch dolls sell out quickly and, in some cities, near riots have occurred in stores where they have become available. Cabbage Patch dolls became as popular as an airconditioner salesman in the Mohave desert. Their faces are irresistible. So too are the furry faces of puppies and kittens, as their eyes seem to plead with you to carry them out of the pet store.

Faces are essential in life. It would be impossible to imagine a world in which everyone went headless, a la the headless horsema…