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...observing the National Day of Silence or even our Drag Night serve to remind us that queer people exist and are worth mentioning. Often it is our most controversial events that do the best to raise our visibility. After e-mail debates about our BDSM Panel or our Sex Toy Party, some people will think the BGLTSA is too “radical,” some people will think that we’re doing good work, but everyone is less likely to take for granted that all the people on their e-mail lists, in their classes...
Nemeth is no stranger to success in direct sales. Inspired in 1978 to find stimulating toys for her daughter Tara, the former day-care-center director built Discovery Toys, an educational-toy company, from a $5,000 garage-warehouse operation into an international 40,000-employee direct-sales company with $100 million in revenues by 1997--the year she sold it to Avon...
...humanization of pets. Nemeth, who says her Balinese cat, Symphony, "talks" to her, knows her market. She spent thousands on wheelchairs and a hyperbaric chamber when her dog Kicsi was dying of spinal-cord degeneration. Nemeth's salespeople teach pet care to their customers, much as Nemeth's toy company helped educate parents about child development...
...change, but in this case she admits she's catching up with what many people already know, and her passion could reasonably be mistaken for penitence. The rap on Fonda has always been that she twists herself into the ideal of whatever man she's with--avant-garde boy toy for first husband and Barbarella director Roger Vadim, liberal activist for second husband and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) co-founder Tom Hayden, traditional corporate wife for the third, Dixie-loving media mogul Ted Turner. But it wasn't until 1998, when she made an unblinking 20-minute autobiographical...
...change, but in this case she admits she's catching up with what many people already know, and her passion could reasonably be mistaken for penitence. The rap on Fonda has always been that she twists herself into the ideal of whatever man she's with-avant-garde boy toy for first husband and Barbarella director Roger Vadim, liberal activist for second husband and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) co-founder Tom Hayden, traditional corporate wife for the third, Dixie-loving media mogul Ted Turner. But it wasn't until 1998, when she made an unblinking 20-minute autobiographical...