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...Danielle intended to be the Brooke Shields of the preteen crowd? Absolutely not, protests Martin K. Greenfield, president of New Jersey-based Tom Fields, Ltd., which makes Tinkerbell products. Danielle, he contends, is more wholesome than sexy. Says Danielle: "Brooke's style sells, but I'm not like her." Tinkerbell launched the children's beauty-aid business nearly 30 years ago, but it has always refused to sell eye shadow and rouge, which it considers improper for young girls...
Unlike the toy companies, Tinkerbell. which sells only cosmetics, toiletries and other grooming aids, considers it inappropriate to promote their wares directly to children. "We would prefer that the parents make the decisions on what to buy," says Greenfield. The commercials featuring Danielle will appear only on adult soap operas and game shows and not on cartoon programs...
...there is a deeper discontent with the press that has other roots. Without intending to exonerate their own paper, two Pulitzer prizewinners on the Washington Post see a decline in journalistic standards all around them. "I am old enough," wrote Meg Greenfield, the editorial page editor, "to remember contemporary journalistic life before the quotation mark was debauched . . . Nowadays you will read pages-long stretches of fictionalized dialogue in reputable books by former public officials and in magazines and newspapers, exchanges that no reporter or historian could conceivably have got straight as literal truths." She also deplores "that...
Wylie's order asked the city manager to "hold in abeyance further distribution" of the evacuation plan presented to the council last week. That plan calls for Cambridge residents to repair to Greenfield, in the western part of the state, in any nuclear "crisis...
Citing the traffic jams that snarl the Alewife Brook area during a normal rush hour, Graham said. "Cambridge people are not going to get to Greenfield. They're not even going to get to Route...