Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rossler and some 60 other aggrieved males were gathered at a motel in Portland, Ore., for the fifth annual meeting of the National Convention for Men, an umbrella group for some 36 organizations representing more than 6,000 people who want to change divorce and custody law. The air was thick with smoke and anger as conventioners huddled in the halls and motel bar, denouncing "father bashing" and "female chauvinism," muttering about the hidden agenda of man-hating and lesbian social workers, and comparing the law's treatment of divorcing men to the Holocaust and Salem witch-hunts...
...rights have been & withheld so often that he has been in and out of court for six years. "The vast majority of fathers are denied visitation," he said. "The noncustodial parent becomes isolated, and things are stacked against him." Peter Cyr, outgoing president of N.C.M. and a dentist from Portland, Me., spent seven years and $25,000 getting joint custody of his two daughters. "Even if you win a custody trial," he lamented, "you are wiped out financially, and your relationship with your children is ruined." Another man announced emotionally, "My children are going to be taken from...
While many small, independent shops are still thriving because consumer demand continues to grow, the large national chains have started to grab most of the new business. National Video of Portland, Ore., which opened its first outlet in 1981, has 776 franchises in the U.S. and opens an average of 15 new shops every month. The convenience-store chain 7-Eleven plans to offer its MovieQuik rental club, which has no membership fee, in 7,000 of its 7,636 outlets by the end of the year. MovieQuik's feature attraction is speediness; because each member's account data...
After Wylie competes in the Portland, Maine, SkateAmerica Competition later this week, he will fly to Moscow to participate in the "Prize of the Moscow News" competition, a different sort of international skating meet. Early in February, Wylie will then attempt to move closer to obtaining the Men's National Title when he skates in the National Figure Skating Championships in Washington state. "That's going to be during spring shopping week," he muses...
...photographers in the Portland show, Yan Morvan and Alfred Yaghobzadeh, have worked in Lebanon, and from some of their pictures one can grasp the moral implications of that tone. Their best images are their least polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that...