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...cottage industry is springing up around the ads. Author Foxman runs a classified love telephone line in Cleveland. Entrepreneur Vinci started a similar service in Philadelphia. Author Lynn Davis offers a three-hour workshop in New York City called "Personal Ads, Why Not?" Vi Rogers, editor of National Singles Register, a tabloid published in Southern California with many pages of personals, says the search for love, and not just sex, is producing the boom. "I never realized how many men wanted to get married in Southern California," she says. "Men and women today want the same thing: romance, love...
...covered creams." Unlike some writers who have moved up, Mason does not bury her past in ironic disdain. A woman who identifies a long, low dog as a "datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition, the insights and epiphanies are spring-loaded. A rock group called the B-52s sounds like "a crazed parent abusing a child, thrashing it senseless." A wife realizes that her husband is afraid of women and feels "so sick and heavy...
Santa Claus must dread dealing each yuletide with Harvard professors and administrators. His elves probably flee the workshop when mail from these ivory towers comes in. Just to solicit these requests, the big red man has to untangle the University's big red tape. And when the gift lists do emerge from the laboratories and the libraries, they are dominated by intangible, high-browed items...
Yesterday's workshop served as a homecoming for Dukakis, who taught at the K. School from the time he left office until the start of his recent campaign Joint Center Director H James Brown noted yesterday that the mayors conference was a "direct result" of Dukakis's work on the school's State and Local Executive Program, which he helped direct during his K. School years...
...Workshop topics will range from the arms race's effects on the third world to options for action on the community level, Lawrence H. Kushl, one of the SPH students organizing the program, said earlier this week...