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...BOTTOM LINE: To Gail Sheehy, "the change" is a plunge into pathology. To Germaine Greer, it's a spiritual crisis. Both ladies protest too much...
...million middle-aged women facing a murky life-cycle transition are, if nothing else, a major book market. Gail Sheehy's slim and chatty menopause book, The Silent Passage (Random House; $16), has been on the best-seller list for 20 weeks. Now comes Germaine Greer's dense, angry meditation, The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (Knopf; $24). The two books deserve credit for making menopause a word that can be uttered in mixed company, but you don't have to be perimenopausal to experience a full range of symptoms as you work through these books, from hot flashes...
Clinton's TV campaign is being run by the Washington consulting firm of Greer, Margolis, Mitchell, Grunwald & Associates, which has enlisted the help of three prominent Democratic media consultants: Robert Squier, Carter Eskew and Mike Donilon. The collaborative effort has been far more focused and efficient than Dukakis' diffuse media campaign in '88. Two other departures from four years ago: rather than concentrating on expensive network buys, the Clinton camp is placing ads on a state-by-state basis, with special emphasis on key battlegrounds like Michigan and Connecticut. And response time has been significantly shortened: Clinton's reply...
...Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creators of TV's Designing Women and Evening Shade. One of the highlights was a 1963 film clip showing John Kennedy shaking hands in the Rose Garden with the 16-year-old Clinton, a priceless piece of celluloid that Clinton aide Frank Greer dug out of the Kennedy Library...
...Briefly, this 1942 William Wyler film follows the daily events in the life of the Minivers and their small suburb outside of London. Soon, even the harmony of the village is interrupted by German bomb, and the rest of the movie details the war's effects on Mrs. Miniver (Greer Garson) and her family...