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...would-be Jesuit priest was now all the rage. He dated Linda Ronstadt (his only public romance so far) and began a life-long custom of throwing big-name parties...
Hazel waits patiently outside T.T. the Bear's Club. At 36, she's no youngster, but she's a classic beauty and still gets her share of appreciative stares. Hazel is, of course, a custom-modified 1956 Chevy schoolbus, The Olivz's band-vehicle extraor-dinaire...
...fear they lack the requisite communications skills can order a love letter by phone, fax or mail from Love Letters Ink, a Los Angeles company for those suffering from lover's block. Founded four years ago by Martine Greber, Love Letters has written more than 25,000 letters for customers worldwide. The catalog offers selections for < lovers, friends and even in-laws, and features headings like General Love, New Relationship and, as a nod to the '90s, a 12-Step Birthday. Prices start at $16.95, delivery not included. If you can't find what you want, Love Letters will compose...
...which could cause cancer in the user's offspring) or the high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons...
...system, then offers his audience more specialized wares. He cites Buckminster Fuller's appeal for a fundamental "design change" of society. To loud applause from the assembled acolytes of acupuncture, psychoshamanism and touch therapy, he declares that any vast health-care reform "should also recognize alternative healing modalities." The custom-tailored sermon, delivered with rat-a-tat intensity, goes over so effectively that he is coaxed into a second performance for all the healers and spiritualists who were unable to squeeze into the auditorium for the first...