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Commercial and nonprofit direct mailers have to work much harder than members of Congress to address their pitches to specific audiences. To sing their siren songs effectively, they rely on a bewildering variety of list compilers, list brokers and list managers. In short, the mail-order industry is teeming with precisely the sort of people Montgomery Ward set out to eliminate: middlemen...
...radio barked again while St. Andrew and Tayenaka were still in the parking lot, and they took off at top speed. Arriving with the siren blaring, they found a man who had cut his hand in a minor traffic accident and wanted hospital care. A county-contracted private ambulance took the case. "He'll get a bill," said Tayenaka, "but nobody pays." Later a drunken partygoer fell and cut his head slightly; he wanted an ambulance...
Downstairs, I climbed into the backseat of a minibus with curtained windows, flanked by KGB agents. We were preceded by a police car with a flashing light and siren and followed by another car. Lusia arrived at Domodedovo Airport % more than two hours later. She told me that as soon as she hung up after my call, our phone went dead (service wasn't restored until December 1986). Soon afterward, police and KGB cordoned off our building and stopped correspondents and friends from entering...
...will say they are harmed by rock. And few are, according to a study commissioned by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. Children do spend hours each day with music. But most prefer mainstream music, and whatever style they listen to, few are tempted by the siren call to excess. "Kids take it in stride," says Stanford University's Donald F. Roberts, who helped conduct the research. The survey should reassure parents that somehow their child will survive pop culture about as successfully as they...
...sees in Garbo sober." But it wasn't the beauty alone that intoxicated. Garbo used her severe gorgeousness to suggest that the characters she played were creatures from a nobler, alien world, doomed to exile among the puny men and cramped conventions of earth. She was typecast as the siren who lures men to hell, only to get there first; but her pained dignity gave the lie to cliche. This Garbo lived by a standard too high for men to reach, so they grabbed what they could touch -- her body. "How little you know of love," she sighs...