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According to former city councilor and Boston lawyer Lawrence DiCara, "Low voter turnout everywhere, not just in Boston, can be based plain and simply on prosperity...
Call it the secular equivalent of PTL. Call it New Age pillow talk. Call it dream liberation. By any name, it is attracting all kinds of new enthusiasts -- artists and academics, ministers and scientists, trained therapists and just plain folks. It borrows techniques from psychotherapy, its vocabulary from sensitivity training and its cheery, take-hold-of-your-life spirit from gurus like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. "Once dreams belonged exclusively to oracles or psychiatrists," says Ann Sayre Wiseman of Cambridge, Mass. "Now dreams belong to the dreamer...
...just about any other business around town. Most people simply took out the Yellow Pages and let their fingers do the walking. But these days, the searching shopper must first decide which phone book is likely to have the best answer. Like the good old telephone system, the plain old Yellow Pages has changed considerably since the 1984 breakup of AT&T. Consumers now choose from a virtual home library of competing Yellow Pages, including special editions for children, the elderly, doctors and boaters, and even multilingual versions in Spanish, Chinese and other languages. At the same time, firms like...
...diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. Some 400 hungry guests joined Shore to gorge on 300 lbs. of chicken in plain, Cajun or smoky barbecue flavors -- the last being an almost inedible, acridly bittersweet and sticky mass. The clear plastic-sealed chickens and chicken parts are being introduced in the mid-Atlantic states and Memphis (home of the Holly Farms parent company); before long they will be available in all states...
Perdue, who speaks for his own company, in Salisbury, Md., has been selling a full "Perdue Done It" line along the Eastern seaboard for the past three months, and it will be introduced next in Ohio. Restricting flavors to plain, with a piquant hot-and-spicy variation for chicken wings, the Perdue line, like Holly Farms, offers parts and whole roasted chickens. Perdue also has breaded tenders (fillets of breast) and nuggets, as well as cutlets that are formed of boned, cut-up white meat. So far nuggets are the biggest sellers, popular especially with college students and singles...