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...Dial tone...
...room in which a television set flickers on with MTV and a radio offers spurious opinions on contras and condoms. Junk food, junk music, junk opinions. Where are we? Where is the nation beyond the highway? Civilization speaks through the public radio stations in the 90s on the FM dial. Back in North Carolina, somewhere south of High Point, National Public Radio's All Things Considered had come through the car speaker, talking of a book named Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls, about life in the mills as people moved into the cities from the sharecropper cabins glimpsed even...
...observers would insist that such opportunism is, in Tocqueville's word, noble. Yet not many would feel it wrong to cash in on otherwise profitless situations. Perhaps crass, tacky or vulgar (as in the latest Jim & Tammy enterprise: Area Code 900 Dial-the-Bakkers taped messages that might bring as much as $100,000 a month from the 25 cents they get for every $1.50 toll a phoning fan must pay), but not immoral...
When Shaffer is not around to make the dial-a-menu recording, Gomes, who is also a Union supervisor, takes his place. The Portugese native came to Harvard seven years ago after working in Boston's clothing industry. The need for a more comprehensive health insurance plan forced Gomes to look...
...says she likes her job because "it's very exciting. I get to meet a lot of different people." Working at the Union makes Gomes "feel good that I can be of help [to others] with little things." Which is really what Dial-a-Menu is all about...