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John Alexander, manager of Houlihan's in Long Beach, Calif., notes that clients collect the plastic creatures and "often hang them from their glasses or from their ears." Why so? Possibly the desperate need for new conversational gambits in singles bars. "What kind of a dinosaur is that?" sure beats "What's your sign...
...another. With their flashy office buildings and cookie-cutter shopping malls, bars and theme restaurants, megacounties like Orange County, Calif., and Johnson County, Kans., are not only interchangeable, they are indistinguishable. I despair to think of a generation whose idea of local color is watering holes such as Houlihan's or TGI Friday...
...Houlihan supervised a group of older students at the Institute who recently completed interviews with 103 of the neighborhoods' 1700 elderly residents. He said the study found that many older residents fear crime and loneliness, and often must leave their homes because they are "house-rich and cash-poor...
...Houlihan said others are driven into the city's impersonal and shabby high-rises because they are not physically fit enough to maintain their own homes...
...Houlihan said that those residents who consented to be interviewed were among the healthier and more courageous members of the elderly community, since many others must have been afraid to let a stranger into their homes...