Word: vans
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Freud called dream analysis the royal road to the unconscious. Psychologist Robert Van de Castle of Charlottesville, Va., agrees. But Freud, he contends, "gave us an unfortunate legacy, equating dreams with neuroses and revealing only the gutter side of our personalities." Dreamworkers are more positive. Explains Psychoanalyst Walter Bonime of New York City: "You can discover assets in dreams as well as pathology." Indeed, declares Psychologist Marcia Rose Emery of Grand Rapids: "If we honor our dreams, they can help and guide...
Washington: Strobe Talbott, Stanley W. Cloud, David Aikman, David Beckwith, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Anne Constable, Michael Duffy, Hays Gorey, Ted Gup, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Steven Holmes, Richard Hornik, Neil MacNeil, Barrett Seaman, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles...
Well, there is help. Just make a quick phone call, and a compact van, stocked with thousands of solutions, will arrive at your door. A driver- decorator (98% are women) will survey the immediate problems and analyze whether your inclinations are in the formal, casual, transitional or luxurious mode. Then, presto! Out from the van can come decks of fabric swatches, wheels of paint chips, pages of wall coverings, rows of baked tiles, furniture catalogs -- even lamps and statuary. For customers who like things fancy, there are silk screens, antique engravings, custom-framed landscapes and Old Master reproductions -- a Degas...
Convoys of minivans are now daily crisscrossing the country, leaving behind a trail of satisfied customers, mostly overworked yuppie couples, young mothers and small-business owners. Maryland-based Decorating Den has accelerated from 100 vans in 1984 to more than 600 franchised van drivers today. The Georgia-based TransDesigns, which sells its own product lines of rugs, drapes and fine-arts objects, has grown from 183 decorators in 1975 to 32,000 decorators and $31 million in retail sales last year...
...stickler for detail, TransDesigns Decorator Joan Caruso-Zinicola packs her van with shadow boxes, even containing seashells to complete the "traditional look," and raku pottery to be mounted on pedestals to "bring dead corners to life." Like most of her colleagues, she recommends local craftsmen and contractors and tries to keep them on schedule...