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...vice president Paul Slagle, "and dish soap in the next." PVI's Holy Grail: customizing insertions using interactive-TV technology--which is still distant and speculative--that would store viewer information (demographic details, even interactive purchases) as Web browsers do. Your TV would figure, Slagle says, "whether you're riper for a Cadillac or a Saturn...
Certainly Lisa Van Riper didn't. Three years ago, her friend David Beasley, then the Republican Governor of South Carolina, gave the Greenville civic activist $200,000 of private money left over from his inaugural and asked her to help make the state's new work requirements for welfare recipients stick. Van Riper's mission: to persuade every church, synagogue and private civic group in the state to adopt one welfare family and guide it toward independence...
What makes Van Riper's program special, say volunteers, is that it is personal and direct. "The government assistance shows up in the mailbox," says Jay Cox, a Presbyterian mentor. "We show up at the front door." And when they do, some are learning as much as they are teaching. Like how easy it is to lose a job because the car broke down and there is no public bus, or because a kid was sent home sick from school and the mother needed to be home too. "So now we're developing, just out of compassion and knowledge...
...take care of the business they were elected to handle, and the other group can spend their time looking for things to charge the President with. And there will need to be an extra President too--so there will be someone to attend all the court sessions. CAROLYN VAN RIPER Albert Lea, Minnesota...
What's left is a brooding romantic fantasy. As scripted by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), the Madison County movie has a slightly riper theme than the book's. It is about the anticipation and consequences of passion-the slow dance of appraisal, of waiting to make a move that won't be rejected, of debating what to do when the erotic heat matures into love light. What is the effect of an affair on a woman who has been faithful to her husband, and on a rootless man who only now realizes he needs the one woman...