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Some of the publications do have taboos. The Chicago Tribune, which runs love ads Mondays and Fridays, does a brisk business among the divorced, but takes no marrieds. Most large newspapers and city magazines turn down blatantly kinky ads, but a few slip by the censors in disguise. "I love wearing makeup" is a semisubtle hint at transvestism. At the Voice almost anything goes. "We allow people to describe themselves fully," says Associate Publisher John Evans, "but we don't allow things like mention of body parts...
Many of them stand to be disappointed. In general, sales are better on both coasts then they are in the Midwestern middle, the "rust bowl," hardest hit by joblessness and industrial anemia. Almost nowhere, though, are sales truly brisk. Unusually warm weather in the East, which has produced temperatures in the springlike 70s, has hurt them in two ways. It has cut into sales of winter clothing. It also made Christmas seem not so near, reducing what Economist Alan Greenspan calls the "sense of urgency" needed to press people into stores...
...burned toast and reviewing comedies like this. Nowadays, when the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem, and Broadway shows are running in the little houses, things like this open less glitzily. But the formula is as ever: one set, six characters, some brisk banter and a simple conflict in values bobbing along the sparkly surface...
...Finally, he said, there was "a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that has long been ringing, of finding a place at a table that has long been left vacant." After the ceremony, Muggeridge stepped out into the brisk English autumn air, and for once seemed content with all he surveyed. "It's a particularly joyful sort of day," said he. "It's rather Like when you fall in love with a woman and ask her to marry you. You know there are no more questions...
Race Car Driver Newman, at the wheel of a Volkswagen Rabbit, also chauffeured Skow around the actor's Westport, Conn., neighborhood at what Skow nervously refers to as "a rather brisk pace." A few days before, Newman had repaired to the back of a limousine to travel around California campaigning for a nuclear freeze. In between some backseat driving, he talked to Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell. During the week that she spent with Newman, Worrell also watched him spellbind waiters at a San Francisco restaurant as he concocted his own salad dressing, rescue a stricken bee that...