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...anti-NEA debate was ignited in June 1989 by a photo exhibition that included homosexually explicit work by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. As is made plain by Indecent Materials, which last week transferred from Durham, N.C., to New York City's Public Theater, the flash point for Helms was gay rights. The opening play, drawn from Helms' words, quotes him assailing "homosexuals who are trying to force their way into undeserved respectability...
...years of pulling in clients almost effortlessly, clubs are facing new challenges. For one, the proliferation of health spas, which have doubled in number, to 20,000, since 1980, has created fierce competition. And as members grow older, they are becoming pickier, more prone to injury and, often, just plain bored...
Consumers fed up with $100-plus price tags for top-drawer Nike Air Jordans or Reebok Pumps are turning back to $25 plain canvas Keds, the reliable old workhorse of the athletic-shoe industry. Keds sales rose from $150 million in 1988 to $200 million in 1989, and are expected to top $230 million this year, at a time when most companies' sales are slowing...
...time when movies devoid of high-tech and horrifying gore and violence are few and far between, Alan Alda's most recent picture, Betsy's Wedding, gives emotion-starved moviegoers a refreshing two hours of simple entertainment. Not Academy Awardwinning entertainment, just plain old family entertainment. I saw this movie with my mother. It's that kind of movie...
...piece was full of elusive truths," recalls Fulghum. "Elusive because they had been in plain sight all the time. Everybody had tripped over them in kindergarten -- without realizing that they were words to live...