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...prayer to the classroom (a cause favored by 69% of Americans, according to Gallup) and in seeking to censor school libraries and textbooks. Discussion of abortion in a high school text is the cause of protest in towns like Oak Hills, Ohio. Under attack in Madison, W. Va., and Peoria, Ill., are books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life, as well as such popular Judy Blume novels for teenagers as Forever and Deenie. In Buffalo, the Protestant right is allied with conservative Catholics in opposing the so-called Epic...
...latest revelations have cast a shadow of suspicion over the entire corporate community and are especially upsetting to the vast majority of businessmen who have spotless records and nothing to hide. "It's scary, isn't | it?" says David Ransburg, who owns a business in Peoria, Ill. "What I resent is that all of us who operate honestly and ethically get indicted in the broad sweep." Both businessmen and consumers are asking why the new outbreak of lawlessness is occurring, and the Reagan Administration is stepping up efforts to bring it under control. Says Stanton Wheeler, director of Yale University...
Community-relations-minded shopping centers have begun to court strollers. ) Many open their doors before regular store hours; some are measuring off courses and issuing walkers' maps. The quarter-mile circuit at the Northwoods mall in Peoria, Ill., even includes half a dozen stations for stretching and light calisthenics. The Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas City, a pioneer that has been welcoming mall walkers for 25 years, actually opens for three hours on holidays just to accommodate its habitual hikers...
...members. Walkers keep as close tabs on their totals as runners do of their times. "I'm on my 600th mile," boasts Ruth Kaufman, 60, a member of the Galleria Mall GoGetters in Glendale, Calif. "I could have gone to San Francisco by now." Observes Pat Garmer of Peoria's Northwoods center: "Let me tell you, you don't get in their...
...quality); and it comes across, in the end, like something of a long, hard to film masturbatory sequence. Good enough. Eroticism is as distant from Cusack's physical repertoire as genuine Voltaire-level perception is from his musings on pizza scarfing. No doubt Cusack could get laughs reading the Peoria phone book out loud. But Donitos Juan need not worry. Were he actually to wear floppy feet and a big red nose while making love, the overall impression would not noticeably change...