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...After the novelty of clean air wore off, this Jewish Big Chill contingent confronted the harsh realities of isolated rural life, compounded by the gnawing issue of their lapsed Jewishness. "We're just at the stage of finding out what works," says Rick Schwag, 35, who runs the Para-Rabbi Foundation up in Lyndonville. Schwag's organization sends rabbis to Jews requesting instruction in prayer services and rites. "Individuals who have been isolated up here until now are emerging into a community." Adds Wild: "You can throw away the structure, but what do you do with the content? That...
...Para Usted...
...board remains predominantly blank--until someone puts up a shot. Then one of three or four advertisements gets flashed upon the screen. Once, when a game was getting out of reach, I was taking side bets to whether "Lipton Iced Tea" or "Es Para Usted" would be the next message on the board...
...success of McInerney and Ellis was a para-publishing phenomenon. Though each undoubtedly thinks of himself as a writer alone with his thoughts and technical problems, they are literary celebrities and, from the vantage of their handlers, basic parts of an entertainment package. And it does not hurt if their editors can tie a bow. "Bright Lights had a winning quality, and it had it in spades, more than any book I have ever read," says Gary Fisketjon, leaving the impression that even casual acquaintance with the novel (a 250- year-old art form) is unnecessary baggage in today...
...different reason. Says Oscar Ornati, professor of manpower management at the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration: "Kids in Hastings-on-Hudson ((a community in wealthy Westchester County, north of New York City)) don't get jobs wrapping fast food. They get jobs as summer para- legals or interns at corporations...