ODD, STRANGE, CURIOUS AND WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE M E D IA B IA S ' # % Despite Bill C lintons deci sive victory, an Editor & Publisher survey just before the election found that out o f 179 daily newspapers endorsing a presidential candidate, 111 papers supported Bob Dole. T he trade journal noted this “support for Dole signals that newspapers have reverted to a tim e-honored practice o f over whelmingly supporting Republicans for the W hite House.” D oles backers included three papers that endorsed C linton in 1992, am ong them the Primos, Pennsylvania, Delaware County Daily Times, whose editor, Andrew Reynolds, explained, “We did n’t realize C linton was such a sleazeball when we endorsed him four years ago.”
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WEIGHT]/ MATTERS Three m onths after Alicia Machado, 18, was crowned Miss Universe, U.S. and Venezuelan news media report ed that pageant officials had given her two weeks to shed 27 pounds or forfeit her crown. “She has various swimsuit con tracts, and they’re not happy that she has gone a bit chub by,” said a pageant official in Buenos Aires, who added that, “as soon as she won, she started to eat” pasta and cake. Machado’s mother, M arta
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Because America has gone data-crazy. Greed is back... with a vengeance. Major radio lingo today consists of words and phrases like format, research, marketing campaign and demographics. Radio has become corporately programmed. Radio stations are now investment properties. Ratings is the name of the game. “Consultants” (a life form near the bottom of the food chain) are brought in to “boost” ratings so that the station or chain of stations can be sold to turn a quick profit. Radio is no longer controlled by people who truly love and appreciate music. When rock ’n’ roll FM radio was born in 1967, the music and the way it was presented mattered. Listeners were given credit for having a brain. Disc jockeys knew the music and how to relate it to the social issues of the day. The universal question we ask as we listen to our own music collec tions is the same question Tom Donahue, the father of free-form radio, asked in the mid-’60s: “Why the hell isn’t this stuff being played on the radio?” No matter how much great music we own and can play whenever we choose, there’s nothing quite like hearing these tunes on the radio, accompanied by intelligent comments and information about that music. It’s the sharing and the connection to others via the airwaves. It’s magic. We also like to be surprised. Radio station big shots will tell you that “predictability” is the name of the game. Listeners don’t want to be surprised. They’ll get upset if they’re surprised! Indeed. Would you be surprised to learn that live disc jockeys are being phased out? Forget calling the station to (god forbid) request a song. There’s no one home. The show you’re listening to right now has been pre recorded hours or even days before. Perhaps it took 20 minutes or half an hour to record a five-hour show because the music has already been “chosen” by a computer and our friend, the “Consultant.” If there are to be any changes in this corporately programmed conduit that radio has now become, it will start to happen first in small market cities like Burlington, which could become the city known as the place where radio became fun (and interesting) again. This cultural mindset of immediate gratifica tion has infected the airwaves and robbed us of intel ligent radio. It’s time for us to reclaim it. — Diane Desmond Addison
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I know what you’re thinking: a secret Back door to the Vatican! Exacdy, except that it’s not secret, in the back, or to the Vatican. But they could use one. You know, to help Cecil avoid the paparazzi. What you’re talking about is an odd tradition at Saint Peter’s involving the Porta Santa, or Holy Door. This door is in the front of the basilica to the right of the main entrance. Most of the time it’s kept not merely locked but walled up. It’s opened only during Holy Years, also known as Jubilee Years. Massive numbers of pilgrims descend on Saint Peters at these times, and I gather the door functions as a sort of a Holy Fire Exit. Holy Years are an odd tradition in their own right. The first was pro claimed in AD 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII, not entirely voluntarily. The faithful somehow got the idea that centenary years were the occasion of a Great Pardon. Tens of thousands of them spontaneously embarked on a pilgrimage to Rome with the view of getting one. So here’s Boniface looking out the window, and he sees vast crowds of people who’ve evidently done something bad enough that they figured it was worth going to Rome to get a pardon. Whoa, says Boniface, it’s time to think fast. He worked up a system whereby participants could gain a special indulgence (pardon from punishment for sins) in return for fulfilling vari ous conditions, notably visiting certain Roman churches, Saint Peter’s being the most important. The original plan was that Holy Years would occur every 100 years, but the interval was soon reduced to 25 years. Additional Holy Years are sometimes proclaimed for special occasions, e.g., in 1983-84, which marked the 1950th anniversary of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. A Holy Year starts on Christmas Eve, at one rime considered the last day of the year. There’s an elaborate ritual in which the Pope strikes the Holy Door three times with a silver hammer. The door prompdy collaps es, no doubt inspiring at least one or two spectators to hope that the rest of Saint Peter’s was built by a different contractor. In fact, however, workers with ropes and pulleys nudge things along. Considering all the build-up, one would suppose the Holy Door pro vided admittance to a garden of forbidden delights. But in fact it gets you into the back of the church just as the other entrances do. The door remains open until the following Christmas Eve, when its again walled UPOne can appreciate that having a special door heightens the drama of the Holy Year, provides instructive symbolism, etc. But why the Pope feels he has to wall it up as opposed to using a good dead bolt is a matter that remains obscure. Cynics will of course suggest that some cardinal s nephew probably has the plaster contract. If you want to investigate you won’t have long to wait. The next Holy Year begins on Christmas Eve 1999. IN LIKE FLYNN: THE SINFUL TRUTH
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Dear Cecil, I have a friend who has a cross made of wood supposedly from a door in Saint Peters Basilica. It was said that this door is only opened once every 100 years. What is behind the door, and why is it kept closed? — Blewick, via America Online
At the end of your column about the “Flynn flap” [September 4, in which I skeptically considered the possibility that “in like Flynn” referred to actor Errol Flynn’s sexual prowess] you invited us seventysomethings to offer what we could to the pool of human knowledge. Born in the Bronx in 1926,1 lived there until age 16, which coincides with your critical year, 1942 [when Flynn was tried for statutory rape]. I never heard, or at least I don’t remember. Boss Flynn’s name coming up. [The clout of New York political boss Edward J. Flynn has been suggested as an alternative basis for the expression,] But I and all my friends freely bandied about “in like Flynn.” There is no doubt in my mind that it referred to his success with ; women. — Murray Lefkowitz, Merion Station, Pennsylvania I [was] 70 in October, so I hope my recollections will carry some weight. . . It was the double entendre involved that accounted for the phrases popularity. Young males could smirkingly use it in front of females, who then started applying it to other situations without necessar ily knowing its original meaning. As I recall, my brothers and I even got our mother to use it, which was especially amusing since she hated Errol Flynn with a passion. I was in the Army Air Corps in World War II, and we all knew the phrase had nothing to do with Flynn’s cinematic feats. ' '' ' —, G. R. Niles, Honolulu, Hawaii Boomers lie, but I know Bob Dole’s generation never would. I guess ‘in like Flynn” really does mean in like Flynn’s, uh, whatever. — CECIL ADAMS
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Since Election Day, yours truly has been 1 asked dozens o f times “So, what are you gonna | do now to stay busy since the election’s over?” | D uh, geez, wow! Probably go back to buildg ing model airplanes for the next two years. N ot really. You see, now is the best time for I politics. Now, after the votes are counted, is the | time when politics reaches its peak. Now it’s no longer about public relations and handing out I inane campaign literature and standing at inter imsections waving at cars. Now it’s about one I thing and one thing only — power. T he votes were barely in before the new power brokers under the golden dom e began I meeting and plotting and positioning. The Senate Democrats will officially take over things 1 in the upper body on January 5. Unofficially they already have, and within the ranks o f the | Senate 17, the jockeying for power has been I downright magnificent. This edition o f Seven Days will hit the I streets just hours before the Senate 17 holds its | first face-to-face pow-wow in Randolph. This | time ’round, the Dems will control the I Com m ittee on Com m ittees that decides who gets to be the chair o f w hat committee. The I Dems also will nom inate a president pro tem| pore, a mere formality. Sen. Peter Shum lin o f Putney, last I year’s Democratic leader and a ® man with both a plan and a future, will get the post. Sen. Dick Mazza will likely win a | spot on the C om m ittee on I Com mittees, joining Shumlin ; and our new lite-gov, D oug Racine. 1 Okay, that’s easy No heavy | lifting. Now the real battle I looms. W ho will be the senate Democratic leader? And who 1 will chair the m oney com m it tees — Appropriations and | Finance? Ah, let the games I begin! Sen. Susan B artlett o f Lamoille C ounty was first out | o f the blocks for leader. Bartlett’s got just two terms I under her belt. And women ; hold the majority in the 1 Democratic caucus. Next to make a quick move | out o f the blocks was Sen. D ick M cC orm ack o f W indsor * County. M cCorm ack’s the i cham ber’s artist/politician blessed with a silver tongue and an Irish wit. H e’s been in the senate twice as long as Bartlett and is an unabashed I liberal. W ord is, the contest is so evenly divided f that the Dems have postponed making a choice I until after the com m ittee assignments are deter| mined. And that’s where the best maneuvering | is taking place. § T he num ber-one rum or in the pipeline over the last week goes like this: Last summer, while i raising cash for the Dems’ campaign war chest, 1 Shum m y the Great promised some o f the hired | guns o f the business com m unity that if the I Dems came out on top, they can relax, because Sens. C heryl Rivers and Elizabeth Ready will 8 not be the chairs o f the Senate Finance and | Appropriations Com m ittees, respectively | “If there are various lobbyists who feel that | was com m unicated to them ,” Shum m y told J Inside Track, “I’d encourage them to get hearing I aids.” | Like Tinker to Evers to Chance, Rivers & | Ready & M cCorm ack are the com bo that I makes things happen. T he RR& M team knows J all the right buttons to press and often when to * press ’em. They’re the bunch H ow ard D ean | paints as the inhabitants o f the far-left fringe. | Big tent, eh? W hen H o-H o m ounted the stage at the
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tyThis week, Ready appears resigned to the fact that she and Cheryl cannot both end up chairing the money committees. Will not fly. No way, no how. Governor and business com- 1 m unity will not accept. End o f story. Even though she’s got the seniority for the post, Lizzie the Lefty told Inside Track she won’t contest the Appropriations chair in order to pave the way for Rivers to get the chair o f the Finance Committee. After all, finance will shape the property-tax reform package and 1997 is going to be the year of Property Tax Reform, brought to you by the Vermont Democratic Party — or else. W ho gets the Appropriations chair? Bartlett’s let it be known she wants it. But Jeb Spaulding, with the seniority o f six terms in the building, has a better shot at it. And what about Jan Backus, Shumlin’s old seat mate from W indham County? Ready could get chair of Senate Natural Resources as a fail-back, but if M cCormack doesn’t win the leader’s job, that would be his fall-back, too. Sure will be fun to watch how H o-H o’s big utility deregu- j lation bill navigates the shoals and sandbars if it gets assigned to Senate Natural Resources. The Democrats have promised the end of partisan bickering, but first they have to j sort out the bickering within their own ranks. As McCormack so eloquent- i ly puts it, “There are more peo- | pie deserving feathers in their bonnets than their are feathers.” * Thank God the bloody elec tion’s over. Now the power game has begun. This sure beats waving at traffic. Backus is Back — Were you surprised at how well Jan Backus did finishing second to Barbara Snelling in the county senate sweepstakes? The former W indham C ounty senator was the top Democrat in the field despite her controversial views on the War on Drugs. Those views sparked a last-minute smear campaign by the Republican state com mittee, which put out a mailing whacking Backus on that very subject. Turns out it was a bust, turning off many Republicans. Fact is, folks, the times they are a changin’. California and Arizona, for all intents and pur poses, legalized marijuana on Election Day. And in Vermont the new political party that achieved “major” party status is the Grassroots Party, led by baby-boomers who advocate the legalization o f cannabis. Hm m . H o-H o’s recent public confession o f his pot-smoking past appears to be quite timely. The dude can detect changes in wind direction better than the National Weather Service. N ot a Blonde Joke — In the Chittenden C ounty senate race it was 14-year veteran H elen Riehle who got the scare o f the night. Riehle held on to claim the sixth and last seat in the delegation. Hey, it wasn’t a good day to be a Vermont Republican. The G O P lost its majority in the State Senate and lost the litegov’s seat, too. Riehle attributed her victory to “good strong Democratic support.” She told Inside Track many people told her at the polls, “you’re the only Republican I voted for.” Must have been the dam n independents who marked their ballots for Babs and Peter Brownell. □
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T uttle got pretty good play in The N ew York j T h e not-so-reluctant star o f M an With a Plan w ound up on the fro n t page o f the Times — one day after his movie closed at C inem a Village in M anhattan. “J t’s the best press we could pos sibly have had w ithout being on screen,” filmmaker Jo h n O ’Brien deadpans after another m arathon week o f highstakes m edia m anipulation. Turns out more people went to see the film at the cheap seats in Burlington than they did in San Francisco, W ashington, Los Angeles or New York. “There are lots o f good films cut there,” O ’Brien says, “and there are lots o f bad films w ith m ore money.” T he Times article did generate a call / / 4 ^ from a booker on “Late N ight W ith David Letterman” who , “I think we e boat on this it one.” At. .least . . . Tina . ,• Brown is on board. Look for a Tuttle tidbit in “Talk o f the Town,” this week in the New Yorker. And a M an With a Plan video by the first o f December. Great stocking stuffer. Space is still the final frontier, especially for local perform ing artists. But while cul tu ra l compete for precious dates at C ity Hall, proprietot R obert Toms has quietly made his “shoe box theater” available for rent at 135 Pearl. T he funky club room worked just fine for Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. H ow many theater groups get to extend their run — twice? To show the place off, Toms is producing a small drag dram a series. “We are trying to offer Burlington som ething it definitely lacks,” Toms says, “— humor. T he skies are too gray for too long.” Look out for a ver sion o f Love Letters w ith Toms and C herie T artt and a winter run o f queer Carmen. O n a serious note, C raig M itchell will perform his one-man show, Do Unto Others, M onday and Tuesday.
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STRONG MEDICINE C o n tin u ed fr o m page 1 At about that time, Bill Gilbert was m inding his own lucrative business, thinking about the upcom ing session o f the Vermont Legislature. Gilbert was arguably the best among the lawyer-lobbyists who repre sent corporate Vermont. He was an elite m em ber o f the cajoling class, one o f the dealmakers who work the Statehouse and ply influence in the executive branch’s hidden offices — and he was at the top o f his game. But Gilbert was looking for something more. Even though he was proud o f his corporate clients and his vocation, calling the Legislature “a beautiful courthouse,” Gilbert didn’t want to be remembered as a guy who retired after a career lobbying for IBM, Anheuser-Busch and the Grand Union Co. Gilbert liked things complex and corporate — and there was trouble at one o f his law firm’s biggest clients: Fletcher Allen was floundering. It needed someone who knew how to make decisions, satisfy regula tors, reassure the public and calm the press. So when Fletcher Allen’s president, Dr. John Frymoyer, called, Gilbert left lobbying to become the senior lawyer for what some had considered to be a sinking ship. Six m onths later, he was running the place.
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ow bad are things at Vermont’s largest hospital? That’s exactly the question Bill Gilbert wanted to answer. To get it he hired a consuiting firm called the Nash Group to conduct interviews and focus groups in which hundreds of managers and non-managers were guaranteed anonymity in return for their honest discussion of upper management and any and all work-related concerns. In a September 12 cover letter to Gilbert obtained by Seven Days, the consultant wrote, “We believe there are serious frustrations and concerns throughout the FAHG organization which should not be ignored. The issues that were discussed with our team are widespread, and occur at all levels and in all areas of the organization. They are serious and are having a detrimental effect on morale and on organi zational effectiveness.” The final report zeroed in on five specific areas. Here are some of the highlights:
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Martin. Both jobs no doubt pay hefty six-figure salaries. But Gilbert says he wants to make a difference. “There are no easy jobs anymore,” he says, “so you might as well have one that matters.” Fletcher Allen matters. Even though it’s in a period o f painful downsizing, the health care industry is an engine of economic growth. Dean describes it this way: Vermont’s economy needs a respectable university — for prestige and a trained workforce. UVM can’t be a great university without a medical school, and the medical school can’t survive without a successful Fletcher Allen Health Care — an efficient, centrally managed teaching hospital and network o f health-care profes sionals. “There’s a huge am ount at stake here that has nothing to do with health care,”
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CLYDE STATS TRIO (jazz), W indjammer, 5 p.m. No cover. PERRY NUNN (acoustic), Ruben James, 5 p.m. No cover, followed by EK (DJ), 10 p.m. No cover. BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish), Last Chance, 7:30 p.m. No cover. CURRENTLY NAMELESS (alt-rock; benefit for habitat for Hum anity), Cook Com m ons, UVM , 9 p.m. Donations. DOC HOPPER, JESUS NUT, KID WITH MAN HEAD, VIEJO (hardcore), 242 Main, 8 p.m. $5. SQUISH (spongy sonic sensations), Java Love, 9 p.m. No cover. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS SYNDROME, THE POET (contem porary folk), Cafe No No, 9 p.m. Donations. AERIUS W/CRAIG MITCHELL (house DJ), 135 Pearl, 9 p.m. $5. DAN WHALEN &DERRICK SEMLER (blues/rock), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 10 p.m. No cover. WIDE WAIL, GO SAILOR, PEN PAL (alt-rock), Club Toast, 10 p.m., $3/5. BLUES FOR BREAKFAST, Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. JANIS IAN (singer-songwriter), Club Metronome, 7 p.m. $12/14. No cover. BE THAT WAY (“heavy m ental” rock), M anhattan Pizza, 9:30 p.m. No cover. (SIC), CHERIE TARTT ROCK THE RADISSON (benefit for Vermont CARES), Radisson Hotel, 9 p.m. $6. JENNI JOHNSON (jazz/blues), M ona’s Jazz Bar, 5:30 p.m. No cover. ZOLA TURN (alt-rock), Last Elm Cafe, 9 p.m. Donations. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 & 10 p.m., $7. EMPTY POCKETS (rock), Patches Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. HIGHLAND WEAVERS (Irish), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 9 p.m. No cover. OPEN MIKE (acoustic), Artists Guild, Rochester, 8 p.m. $1. JAMIE LEE & THE RAT TLERS (country-rock), Thirsty Turtle, Waterbury, 9:30 p.m. $2. ALBERT OTIS (blues), Charlie-o’s, Montpelier, 10 p.m. No cover. ALEX BETZ TRIO (jazz), Main Street Bar & Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 9 p.m. No cover. BL00Z0T0M Y (blues; live recording), Mad M ountain Tavern, Waitsfield, 9 p.m. $3. FULL MOON HEART (folk-rock), Gallagher’s, Waitsfield, 8:30 p.m. $2. DEER CAMP WEEKEND: SUNSHINE (Top 40 rock; women get in free with copy of hunting license), Rusty Nail, Stowe, 8:30 p.m. $4. DIAMOND JIM JAZZ BAND, Diam ond Jim’s Grille, St. Albans, 8 p.m. No cover.
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PATTI CASEY, BOB GAGNON & MATT MCGIBNEY (acoustic brunch), City Market, 11 a.m. No cover. ACOUSTIC SUNRISE BRUNCH (open jam), Java Love, 11 a.m. No cover. BIG PINE PUPPET SHOW (miniature ballet), Last Elm, 1 p.m. Donations. WOMEN'S CABARET (music and poetry), 135 Pearl, 8 p.m. $3. OPEN MIKE (acoustic), Vermont Coffeehouse, Vermont Pasta, 8 p.m. Donations. RUSS FLANAGAN (jazz/rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. No cover. FLEX RECORDS NIGHT (dub DJ), C lub M etronom e, 9 p.m. No cover. MICHAEL OAKLAND & ERIC KOELLER (jazz), Main Street Bar and Grill Downstairs, Montpelier, 11 a.m. No cover.
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MASADA, (BMI, CD) — The downtown (New York) saxophonist John Zorn has always been full of sound and fury, signifying something avant; his musical explorations have virtually defined the cutting edge of jazz for some 20 years. He’s written for clas sical whiz-kids Kronos Quartet and for the computer war-game Cobra; he’s earned his stripes among the fringe-rock cultiscenti with his “surfspeed-metal-psychomanic-ambient” band, Naked City. Zorn never rests — musically, that is — as his newest recording attests. Masada is both the name of the CD and the foursome playing it: bassist Greg Cohen, Joey Baron on drums, composer/trumpeter Dave Douglas and Zorn on alto. The music itself reaches back into Zorns Jewish heritage to bor row and twist the traditions of Eastern European klezmer sans paro dy — with threads of 20th-century jazz, especially Ornette Coleman. The snaky, brassy lines of the opener, “Paran,” give way to the quiet, exploratory snippets of “Halisah,” the uptempo, spirited playfulness of “Yoreh,” and on and on, led by the exquisite virtuosity of Barons per cussion. The minor-chord, structured-improvisational Masada is explained as a cycle of musical vignettes recalling when Jewish rebels took control of that mountain fortress, wrested independence from the Syrians, and committed suicide rather than be overtaken by the Romans in 73 AD. Accordingly, the music serves as a polyphonous modern soundtrack with biblical overtones, with the drama that implies, yet nods companionably to the spare, B-movie blues of Zorns late-’80s album, Spillane. By turns laconic and explosive, Masada is “world” music with an edge; straddling tradition and futurespeak, it is jazz for the millenium. In an extremely rare foray outside his urban enclave, Zorn and company trek north for a concert — appropriately, one of the “ N e w Visions” series — at the Flynn Theatre this Monday. REBECCA PADULA, TAMsdf-rdeased ( CD) — Burlington singer-songwriter Rebecca Padula, known for her part in the alt-folk trio Table Wine, takes a solo turn on this CD pro ject, showing off a round and sultry alto that smoothly transitions to a higher register. She sings in territory somewhere between Etta James and Karen Carpenter on the title track, with a jazzy accompaniment from drummer Gabe Jarrett and Christopher Burrage (also from Table Wine) on bass. The second song, “Knots,” whisks Padulas voice upward and more girlish, with acoustic guitar work from both herself and Joe Capps — who also co-produced the recording. Some of the songs are less than thrilling: “Honest Song” is sincere but plodding despite delicate percus sion from Kenny Dunbar; “Cranberries” is a quiet, pretty reflection on a familial relationship, and brings us halfway through this eight-song CD. “What’s the Point?” picks up in tempo and jazzy complexity, featuring Padula harmonizing silkily with herself and a brief electric interlude from Capps. The only non-original, “Cannot Keep From Singing,” is a lovely a cappella tune with an Irish feel. “Johnny Ray” is a stand-out that already sounds like a smoky jazz classic, and the bassa nova-ish closer, “You,’ nearly so, but more melancholy. In fact, a bittersweet mood hangs over this entire collection and, while the cumulative effect is a bit of a downer, it indicates Padula could easily play the tuneful temptress in a piano bar. Sometimes, though, you wish she’d just take a deep breath, turn up the heat and let it rip. W. C .
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W.C. Clark isn’t just some neotraditionalist in the r&b vein; he’s the real thing. His originals and cover selections on this recent CD reveal his similarity with the greatest soul singers o f all time. The graceful, gospel-tinged phrasing, the sexy growl, the aching focus on love and love lost, and the swinging blues recall Sam Cooke, B. B. King, Clarks former frontman Joe Tex and bandmate Stevie Ray Vaughan — Clark co-wrote one of the latter’s biggest hits, “Cold Shot.” Austin meets Memphis meets New Orleans in this 12-song collection. Like a great lover, Clark simmers slowly to the boiling point, and knows exactly when to explode. As he does on tunes like the Vaughan-esque “Rough Edges.” As the Kamikaze Horns — led by saxman Mark Kazanoff — do in taut teases throughout. W. C. Clark keeps his road-worn genre sounding fresh and fluid, beaming soul-soaked Southern comfort wher ever he goes. That’s why you’ll wanna be helping Austin’s Godfather of the Blues celebrate his 57th birthday Saturday at Metronome. □
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NURSES FACE THE FUTURE Dames or Anheuser-Busch, — which they say put their corporate interests above those o f ordinary Vermonters. “Overall, I would say that he represented a lot o f clients that in my view were against the public interest,” says Joan M ulhern, now at Georgetown Law School, who sometimes lobbied against G ilbert for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. Still, even those who m ight bristle at some o f G ilberts clients nevertheless admired Gilbert and his skills. “My impressions are all positive,” said House Speaker Michael Obuchowski, a Dem ocrat from Rockingham who encountered Gilbert many times, especially as chairman o f the House Com merce Com m ittee. “H e’s what I would call a real Vermonter who always searched for a workable so lu tio n ... But if Gilbert was able to build trust am ong lawmakers in the Legislature, he hasn’t yet been able to do the same am ong employees at Fletcher Allen. To the contrary, the place is polluted with mis trust. Gilbert got the bad news in September from a group o f consultants hired to run confidential interviews and discussion groups w ith employees in August. T he resulting report is brutal (see sidebar). Employees, including some doctors, fear for their jobs, in spite o f Gilbert’s assurances against another round o f mass layoffs. They feel the adm inis tration ignores their sugges tions. M any staff members feel overworked, and resen t C o n tin u e d on page 1 4
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Indeed, the fallout from the budget crisis is settling. W hat is left, however, appears to be a low-grade feeling o f uncertainty among hospital employees, especially nurses, as forces of change in the health-care industry converge. In September a consultant’s report concluded that the cost
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Association in W ashington, D .C. “We are greatly con cerned because there is the potential for an aide to perform nurse’s duties for which they have not been trained to per form .” Aides and technicians typically only have a high school diploma and a few weeks o f training. M onk and Patricia Donehower, a registered nurse and vice president for nursing, are also watching the trend, but have no plans to shift the staffing mix at Fletcher Allen, where 80 percent o f the nursing staff are registered nurses. They believe the demand for well-qualified reg istered nurses will continue, but the jobs may not be in a hospi tal setting. By the turn o f the BEDSIDE M A N N E R Nurse Warren Glore administers TLC. century, more nurses will be practicing their profession in a home cutting measures and other be identified, adds that she or com m unity situations rather changes at the hospital were would never encourage her than hospitals as the trend in having a detrimental effect on daughter to become a nurse health care moves toward more morale and organizational because o f the uncertainties in outpatient care, they say. effectiveness. In an effort to the health-care industry Nurses Earlier this m onth, Fletcher boost morale, hospital manage here only have to look at what Allen and the Visiting Nurses m ent decided to give its has happened in other parts of Association announced an employees a one-time bonus of the country, especially agreement whereby the two up to $300. The amount, California and the Midwest, organizations will work more which will be included in paywhere some hospitals use less closely in coordinating home checks this week, is determined expensive nurses aides and health care and nurse training by an employees pay grade and technicians to offset the cost o f in C hittenden and Grand Isle am ount o f hours worked. hiring a full staff o f more Counties. “W hen someone mentions expensive registered nurses. “Nursing is returning to its layoffs,” says Nicole Valcour, a “This is a trend we are roots,” M onk notes. “T he pro nurse in pediatrics, “it is very watching very carefully,” said fession o f nursing began in the stressful.” Valcour had nothing Joan Meehan, spokeswoman home setting and moved but praise, however, for the for the American Nurses C o n tin u e d on page 2 9
arilyn M onk, the highestranking woman at Fletcher Allen Health Care, has a board on her office wall filled with notes about management strategy. At the bottom o f the board is scrawled the word “mess.” She points beyond the word and says, “This is where we are now,” indicating the progress the fledgling hospital consortium has made since its budget crisis last April. M onk — who came to Fletcher Allen in October 1995 after working in hospital m an agement in M ontreal — is the senior vice president of patient and family services. Under her supervision are the 1400 nurses who work at the sprawling hos pital complex. Fletcher Allen was formed in January 1995 when the former Medical C enter Hospital o f Vermont, Fanny Allen and University Health Center were merged. Nurses at Fletcher Allen — and nationwide — face a changing job market as the forces o f managed care, cost cutting measures and improved medical technology result in fewer patients in hospitals. In last May’s budget crisis, the hospital reduced its 4000 employees by 124 people, including about 30 nursing positions. “There is no question this organization has been preoccu pied with changes,” says Monk. “The budget recovery plan was very, very painful and we have put that behind us. The vision for the hospital is really good now.”
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man, I think he owes me a phone call.” Sanders, currently vacation ing in M ontreal, could not be contacted for com m ent on N ader’s remarks. T he congress man’s aides point out, however, that Sanders publicly endorsed C linton long before Jack Long entered the House race. “It’s really irresponsible o f Ralph to be making that charge,” says Sanders campaign manager Tom Smith. In an August interview, Sanders explained his endorse m ent o f C linton on grounds that his top priority was to pre vent a Republican takeover of the W hite House. T he incum bent president is “clearly prefer able” to Bob Dole on a host of issues, the congressman argued then.
“Given how long I ’ve supported Bernie Sanderseven before he became a congressmany I think he owes me a phone call. ”
— Ralph Nader Sanders further m aintained that Nader was not a viable contender and could expect to get “at most 2 or 3 percent o f the vote nationally.” T hat forecast proved inflat ed: Nader actually received less than 1 percent o f the national tally, winning about 600,000 votes in the 21 states that listed him on the ballot. In California and Oregon, where he did cam paign extensively, Nader was more o f a factor, receiving a respective 2.4 and 4.1 percent vote share in those two states. M any members o f Verm ont’s Progressive Coalition say they were unimpressed by N ader’s campaign, which never came to Vermont and which
was plagued by an acute short age o f funds. Nader needlessly muffled his own message, his left-wing critics contend, by refusing to raise money even from individual donors. The shoestring crusade also made no effort to build a progressive party in Vermont, add Sanders’ allies, some o f whom voted for Nader, anyway. T he campaign was largely ineffectual in the Green M ountains, agrees Gary Widrick, the closest facsimile to a Nader organizer in Vermont. Besides lacking funds for basic items such as bum per stickers, the Nader for President drive sputtered in several states, including Vermont, due to what W idrick describes as “the toxic aspects o f Green politics.” Green Party activists comprised the core o f Nader’s campaign, but this coterie again displayed the left’s propensity for splitting into feuding grouplets. Nader regards his own presi dential undertaking as a prelude to a more successful initiative four years hence. Acknowledging that his vote total puts no pressure on C linton to move leftward, Nader predicts that the Democratic nominee will feel progressive heat in the 2000 campaign. “The Greens are coming on strong in more and more states, especially among young people,” says Nader, who is not a Green Party member. T he 1996 result in Vermont, where Nader won 2.1 percent o f the vote, would have been far more favorable to the left had Sanders and the Progs actively backed the insurgency, W idrick says. He relates that Sanders’ congressional cam paign coordinator had refused to assist Vermont Naderites in , any way. “Bernie has always said he’s willing to take on the Democrats,” W idrick com ments. “But he didn’t follow through, and that has cooled many o f us from doing much more work with Sanders and the Progressives.” □
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AND PITH Bv Jay Kirk he clues run amuck in Archer M ayor’s latest m ur der mystery, from a skull fragment w ith a punkrock hairdo to the skulduggery o f Brattleboro’s municipal mastodons — and with an entire ward o f randy nursinghome residents as possible sus pects. T he protagonist o f The Ragmans Memory, as in the pre vious hardboiled mysteries by the Newfane writer, is smart and sober Lieutenant Joe Gunther. G unther is the sensi tive guy o f literary detectives. Whereas the Spillane-era detec tive would be nipping from a flask, and pistol-whipping twofaced stoolies, G unther is a m odern man with m odern sen sibilities. A nonsm oker who occasionally abstains from meat, likens stakeout duty to the “perfect meditative level,” and turns down “freebies” from
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lessly patient, therefore obser vant, o f his fellow characters’ idiosyncrasies. He looks upon virtually every character with insight and compassion, from the archfiends to the police departm ent’s thankless clerks.
The results are sympa thetic and vividly por trayed characters full o f ambiguity, vulnerability and humanity. Ron Klesczewski, the squad’s Radar O ’Reilly, is an “enigmatic mix ture o f timidity and am bition, courage and wariness, intelli gence and naivete,” Mayor writes.
The Ragman’s Memory, by Archer Mayor. Mysterious Press, 336 pp., $22. Mad Season, by Nancy Means Wright. St. M a r t i n ’ s Press, 183 pp., $20.95.
G unther’s romantic partner, Gail Zigman — who’s driven in part by her recovery from a rape in Mayor’s last book — works with zeal and fury as an assistant to the State’s Attorney. Most often, it is Zigman who simplifies, for the police and lay reader alike, the snags o f municipal intrigue and malfea
sance surrounding the mystery. T he squad’s curmudgeon and G unther’s tem peram en tal opposite, Willy Kunkle, is “fueled by private dem ons so rooted and complex that [Gunther] never doubted his steadiness or dependability.” Mayor can’t resist innocent but allusive winks harking back to the Golden Age o f his pulp predecessors. D uring one romantic interlude, Zigman and G u n th er’s clothes are strewn in a “trail o f entangled pants, shirts and underwear stretching toward the door.” O n e shortcom ing occurs when Mayor abandons dram at ic intensity for canned exposi tion on m otivation — the worst example being the smug, all-knowing psychiatrist, a glar ingly transparent stock charac ter whose pop-shrink diagnoses spell out what Mayor has C o n tin u e d on page 2 8
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the report said *Wh some occasions this may have been misinformation, misunderstanding or a change in plans, trust in w hat adm inis tration is saying is described as at an all-time low.” T he outlet for a lot o f this m istrust and rotten morale is an anonym ously published newsletter, “T he Setting Sun.” It accuses doctors and executives o f taking over the place, ousting the people who know how to manage hospitals, running Fletcher Allen into the ground and lining their own pockets. But the consultants’ report trashed the newsletter, calling it full o f m isinform ation and driven by the personal agen das o f its writers. “These misstatem ents intersperse tru th w ith half-truths and unverifiable opinions,” the report said, “and some o f these dis tortions appear to be so obvi ous that they m ust be inten tional. T h e net effect is a cal culated effort to destroy FA H C .” U nfortunately for Gilbert, m any employees believe “T he Setting Sun” is a m ore reliable source o f infor m ation than Fletcher Allen executives. *o be fair, the consultants sought the worst at Fletcher Allen, and p u r posefully ignored what the medical center does well -— including the care it delivers to patients. Fletcher Allen just received a three-year accredi tation and praise from a national organization that rates the quality o f hospitals. T he leadership at Fletcher Allen is planning a com pany wide response to the study.
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By P. Finn McManamv ome audiences m ight shy away from 333-year-old French classics originally performed under the royal patronage o f Louis XIV and translated into English rhyming verse. But no need to worry. Moliere’s Tartuffe, co-produced by the UVM Theater D epartm ent and Vermont Stage Company, is funny and unpre tentious, a tightly played com m ent on posers and religious bombast. Consider it a bonus that the original production’s attack on hypocrisy was suppressed by the religious bigots o f Paris: Tucked in amid Tartuffes satire is inyour-face rebellion. T he acting is crisp, and the collaboration o f student and professional actors is a good one. Too often actors uncom fortable with the restraints o f m annered comedy — whether it’s Noel Coward or anything ever performed for kings and queens — will over-enunciate the lines or seem to announce, Look at me, I'm in costume. There’s none o f that here. This com pany is to the mannered born. who hate to see theatrical classics dum b ed down for a resistant public or tarted up to increase their appeal — again, fear not. This Tartuffe, down to a few sight gags the actors just could not resist, is true
to Moliere. Ethan Bowen, a Vermont Stage regular, plays Tartuffe as a hypocrite in a world o f inno cents. In one m om ent he’s ask ing a servant to put away his hair shirt and Tartuffe, by the whip he Moli ere, produced uses to flay by Vermont Stage himself; next, Company and the he’s out o f his U n i v e r s i t y of velvet breeches Vermont Theater trying to seduce Department, di r ec t his patron’s ed by Blake wife. Robison. Roy al l “He can Tyl er Theatre, detect a mortal U n i v e r s i t y of sin where you’d Vermont, least expect,” Bur l i n g t o n , claims Orgon, November 14-17. the patriarch of
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this ordinary family, who has been taken in by the con-artist Tartuffe. In turn he has given the impostor free run o f the house, food, gifts and entrusted him with his secrets. He decides he’ll give him his daughter, Marianne, in marriage, and banishes the son who tells him o f Tartuffe’s tricks. He won’t believe Tartuffe has made lasciv ious advances on Elmire, his wife — until Elmire stashes her husband under a table with a bowl of fruit to learn for him self. W ith Craig Wroe as a fool ish Orgon, countered by Lacey Parker’s down-to-earth Elmire, the farcical elements are there in full, bawdy splendor. Nick Petrie is effectively
hot-headed as the son, but is soon ban ished; long-winded Cleante (Andrew Parrella) is ignored, and Julia Ely has not much to do as M arianne except pout. So it’s left to Dorine, the clever maidservant, to try and bring order out o f this chaos. The part is a great vehicle for Bethany Ann M cD onald’s ener gy — though she leans a little on the rhyming end-words, which puts a Dr. Seussian spin onto the lines. She makes the dust fly in more ways than one. The rhyming couplets pro vide an external structure for the freewheeling comedy they contain. Even the tradition of eavesdropped conversations is turned on its ear. W hen Elmire
forces her husband to spy on Tartuffe, the suspense is caused not in wondering whether the secret lovers will get away unde tected, but whether Orgon will come out from his hiding place before Elmire’s honor is besmirched. (And what’s he doing under the table to keep him so long, one wonders? Eating fruit?) Jeff Modereger’s scenic design, and the costumes by Jennifer McNicholas, also paral lel the structure of the play. T he symmetrical, spare setting, the lace-up bodices o f the women’s dresses, the men’s wigs and three-cornered hats, all provide a sense o f restraint that contains the wildness within. T he mirrored double doors are slightly warped, creating a funhouse effect that distorts the characters’ shapes and turns them upside-down for as long as duplicity holds court. The trompe-l’oeil painted surfaces suggest depth and perspective where there is none, just as the shiny fa u x marble floor shows the difficulty in sorting out truth from fakery. T he com pany doesn’t stop there, having fun with a sight gag o f a police officer who appears in full drag as Louis XIV, right down to the mole and the supercilious expression. T his may reflect Moliere’s own feeling about rewriting the end ing to appease the king. In the play, the king’s intervention is more effective than Dorine and Elmire are in stopping Tartuffe’s wiles. Family order is restored, and Cleante preaches the benefits o f m oderation and good sense. Nonetheless, in Moliere’s land scape, no one will remember this lesson for long. □
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dance ‘FREE SPIRIT D A N C E ’: The weekly barefoot boogie convenes at Earth Dance Healing Arts Studio, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $5. Info, 482-2827. C O N T A C T IMPROV: Make contact with other fearless movers at Memorial Auditorium Loft, Burlington, 7:15 p.m. $1. Info, 860-3674.
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kids ‘T H E W ALDORF CLA SSR O O M ’: Parents get introduced to the Waldorf way o f education with a school tour and discussion. Lake Champlain W aldorf School, Shelburne, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 985-2827. TEEN PARENT-CH ILD G RO UP: Teen moms hang out with their babies at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 1-3
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JO H N SAYLES RETROSPECTIVE: Tonight Lianna shows at 5:30 p.m. and Brother From Another Planet screens at 7:50 p.m. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington. Donations. Info, 658-7458. JAPANESE LANGUAG E V IDEO S: Tampopo is screened in the Fireplace Lounge, Living-Learning Center, U V M , Burlington, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 656 -4 4 7 7 . ‘S C H O O L OF T H E ASSASSINS’: A video and discussion exposes the U.S. Army school that trained Latin American death squads. Goddard College, Plainfield, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8493.'
p.m. Free. Info, 860 -4 4 2 0 . STO RY TIM ES: Kids three to six hear stories and craft, 10-10:45 a.m. Those under three listen up, 11-11:30 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 8 6 5-7216. STORIES: Kids listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Childrens Pages, W inooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 6 55-1537.
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‘F O C U S O N T H E W ATERFR O N T’: W hat is “responsible” development? Progressives sponsor a discussion on the Burlington waterfront. Wheeler School, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. M EDICAL H ISTO RY LECTURE: Nicholas H eintz gives a nontechnical talk about those mysterious oncogenes that can cause cancer. Hall A, Given Building, U V M , Burlington, noon. Free. Info, 656-3131. FREE SERVICE DAYS: Seniors, dis abled people and low-income single par ents receive services from students. Get your car ready for winter, a haircut and a free lunch at the Essex Technical Center, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Free. Info, 879-8152. FINANCIAL A ID PROGRAM: College-bound students and their parents get pointers on major federal and state programs. Essex Junction Educational Center and M t. Mansfield Union High School, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-642-3177. CH ESS N IG H T : Make your moves at Cafe N o N o, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. Free. Info, 865-5066. B U R L IN G T O N O U T IN G GRO UP: Kindred spirits from across the Champlain Valley meet for an annual m eeting and social hour. Cafe N o N o, Burlington, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 4344600. ‘SPECTACULAR SLAVERY’: Robyn Warhol examines how Uncle Tom’s Cabin became an icon o f plantation life. Waterman Manor, U V M , Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 656-3166. D ISC R IM IN A T IO N PANEL: Four stu dents discuss their experiences o f dis crimination “beyond black and white.” McCarthy Arts Center, St. M ichael’s College, Colchester, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535. TR O PIC A L FISH M EETING : Tom Neal speaks about live-bearers at the V FW Hall, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 482-3616.
d a n ce SW IN G D ANCE: Lindy hop and jitter bug and swing-style basics will be taught at a dance to recorded music. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $3. Info, 434 -5 2 3 9 . ISRAELI FOLK D A N C IN G : Shiksas and other goyim are welcom e at Union Elementary School G ym , Montpelier, 6:30 p.m. $7.50. Info, 223 -5 1 41.
t h e a t e r ‘M A D W O M A N O F C H A IL L O T ’: See November 13. ‘PATIENCE’: See Novem ber 13. ‘BYE BYE BIR D IE ’: Conrad Birdie tries one last pre-draft publicity stunt in this Tony Award-winning musical about an Elvis-style rock ’n’ roll star. Lyric Theatre takes over the Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $7-17. Info, 863 -5 9 6 6 . ‘TARTUFFE’: A self-righteous imposter takes over the hom e and lives o f an upper-middle class family in this master piece o f social com edy by MoIi£re. Vermont Stage performs at Royall Tyler Theater, U V M , Burlington, 8 p.m . $11. Info, 6 56-2094. ‘D EV IA T IO N S FROM T H E N O R M ’: Expect “an inspired state o f poetic ecsta sy” from this traveling street poet. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington. Donations. Info, 658 -7 4 5 8 .
film ‘DEADLY EM BRACE’: Deadly Embrace is a documentary explaining the influ ence o f free trade, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Nicaragua. Billings, U V M , Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 658-9974. M ARGARET M EAD FILM FEST: Three short documentaries, including “W om en in Cultural C ontinuity,” show in conjunction with a gallery exhibit.
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dan ce ‘ROCK T H E R A D ISSO N ’: Vermont C.A.R.E.S. is the beneficiary o f this GenX bash featuring members o f Chin Ho!, Motel Brown, Dogma, Cranial Perch and
Z orn updates Eastern European klezm er music M onday in a Flynn Theatre concert w ith his band, M asada.
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th ea ter ‘M A D W O M A N OF C H AILLO T’: See November 13. ‘PATIENCE’: See November 13. ‘BYE BYE BIRDIE’: See November 14. ‘TARTUFFE’: See November 14. ‘POLITICALLY C O R R E C T ’ CABARET: The college theater company takes a comical journey into the world o f political correctness. Trinity College, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 872-2738. ‘MY FAIR LADY’: College students recreate the Pygmalion-inspired musical. Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 635-1386.
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art GALLERY TALK: The head ceramist at Moravian Tileworks discusses Henry Mercer and his tiles. Fireplace Lounge, Living-Learning Center, UVM;*Burlington, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 6 5 6 -4 2 0 0 .
w crds O PE N REA DING : Bards o f all persua sions read from their works at the Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6106.
kids STORY H O U R : Toddlers listen to tall tales at the M ilton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 893-4644. STORY TIM ES: Kids under three also
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D A N C E & D R U M CO NFEREN CE: Learn West African drum and dance techniques from international teachers, including a Senegalese dancer formerly with Les Ballets Africains. Burlington C ity Hall, 5:30 p.m. Classes cost $18-20 each; jams cost $3. Info, 8 6 2-6727. V E R M O N T ARTS C O U N C IL : The state arts agency brings on a new execu tive director — and gives awards — at its annual meeting. Ascutney Mountain Resort, Brownsville, 4-7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-3291. CO UPLES YOGA: Gillian KapetynCom stock teaches how to nurture your relationship through play, breath and stretching. Beginners and all types o f couples are welcom e at the Burlington Yoga Studio, 7 p.m. $30 per couple. Register, 658-YO G A. ‘SW EETER T H A N EVER’: Mayor Peter Clavelle teams up with Cherie Tartt to reopen the newly renovated Sweetwaters, which had a fire last m onth. Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 8 64-9800. RURAL H ISTO RY PROGRAM: “Sheep Heaven” remembers the thriving Vermont wool industry in the mid1800s. Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $3. Reservations, 748-2372. T E L E C O M M U N IC A T IO N S & HEALTH CO NFER EN C E: What are the health risks and environmental impact o f telecom munications towers? Policy implications are also addressed at the two-day conference. Killington Conference Center, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. $115. Register, 222 -5 2 1 3 . O U T R IG H T SU P P O R T GRO UP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning youth are invited to an ongoing support group meeting. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 8 6 5-9677.
© Saturday m usic S O U T H IN D IA N CO NCERT: Karnatic violinist N . Shashidhar per forms traditional music, with mridangam and tambura accompaniment. McCarthy Arts Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7:30 p.m. $10. Info, 879 -1 4 4 3 . T H E FLIRTATIONS: An all-female blues band opens for this unabashedly queer com bo. Unitarian Church, Burlington, 8 p.m. $ 1 0-20. Info, 863 -2 4 3 7 . T E N O R J O H N T H A D E : The “big gor geous tenor” takes on all-time Broadway
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Shutter Herbs, Burlington. Sliding scale. Register, 865-HERB. Kids five to eight h eara story, have * tea p a rty make a dream pillow and plan t seeds. ^SELF-CONFIDENCE STEP BY STEP’: Wednesday, November 13, 7-8 p.m. Burgess Assembly, MCHV, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. A video and discussion form at is designedfor m iddle schoolers. . '
ADULT MODERN-JAZZ: Tuesdays, 7:10-8:45 p.m. for slow and intermediate dancers. Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. for intermediate and advanced. Olympiad, 70 Farrell Sc, S. Burlington. $9. Info, 9855216. Jane Setter leads ongoing classes.
health ‘PREVENTING STROKE*: Wednesday, November 20, 7-8:30 p.m. MCHV, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. Get up to speed: Eighty percent o f strokes are pre ventable, and new treatments minimize the damage when stroke does occur. ‘LIVING W ITH DEMENTIA’: Saturday, November 16, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Alzheimer’s Association, Montpelier. Free. Register, 800-698-1022. Understand dementia to create a better quality o f life for your affected loved one — and get support for your care giving role. MENOPAUSE PROGRAM: Wednesday, November 20, 7-8:30 p.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Register, 865-2278. Merck Pharmaceuticals sponsors a series on menopause; tonight's class discusses alternatives to pharmaceuticals. HOMEOPATHY INTRO: Friday, November 15, 7 p.m. Food for Thought, Stowe. Free. Info, 253-4733. Learn about a natural approach to healing with nurse Larry Raffel.
herbs ‘MENOPAUSAL M ADNESS’: Monday. November 18, 6:30-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. Sliding scale. Register, 865-HERB. Heart and bone health, symp tom reliefand estrogen replacement therapy will be covered. ‘STRESS BUSTERS’: Tuesday, November 19, 7-9 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $10. Register, 865HERB. Relaxing teas, foot soaks, and baths — take time for yourself in this busy season.
MEDITATION: First & third Sundays. 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Shambala Center. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors teach non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist practices. MEDITATION: Thursday nights starting in November. 7:30-9:20 p.m. Old Brick Church, Willisron. $10. Info, 879-4915. Discover the salubrious effects o f sitting still.
self defense RAPE AWARENESS: Monday & Tuesday, November 18 & 19, 6-9 p.m. Burlington Police Department. Free to Enterprise Community residents. Register, 865-7200. Women and girls over 12 learn how to stay safe using psychological and physical self-defense.
tai chi TAI CHI: Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. & 8-9 p.m. Food For Thought, Stowe. $10. Info, 253 4733. John DiCarlo leads ongoing classes.
writing WRITERS WORKSHOP: Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Cafe No No, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-5066. Take a journal and your writing spirit.
yoga YOGA: Daily, Burlington Yoga Studio, 174 Main St. Info, 658-YOGA. Classes are offered for pregnant women, kids and people with bad backs, in Astanga, Iyengar, Kripalu, Bikram and Kundalini styles. Beginners can start anytime.
kids ‘EXPLORING HERBS’: Sunday, November 17, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Purple
LIST JOUR CLASS: F ellow th e fjormat, in c lu d in g a to to 20 w ord d e s c r i p t i v e s e n t e n c e . Mail o r w a lk it in, with $5 fior o n e w e e k o r $15 frer a m o n th , by th e T h u rsd a y b e f o r e p u b lic a t i o n . Free c l a s s e s a r e lis t e d w it h o u t ch a rg e.
favorites at his 100th concert celebration. North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $12. Reservations, 800-559-7070.
d a n c e ‘DAN C E S OF UNIVERSAL PEACE’: You don’t need a partner to participate in simple spiritual circle dances from around the world. Earth Dance Healing Arts Center, Chace Mill, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5-7. Info, 658-2447. BALLROOM DANCE: Dress informal ly for this fun-oriented dance. Beginners and singles are welcome at Fred Tuttle Middle School, S. Burlington, 7 p.m. A lesson starts at 7:30 p.m. $7. Info, 655-1763. C O N T R A DANCE: Paul Rosenberg calls for the Bevyrwyk String Band. Capitol City Grange, Montpelier, 8 p.m. $5. Info, 426-3734.
t h e a t e r M A D W O M A N OF C H AILLO T’t See November 13. ‘PATIENCE’: See November 13. ‘BYE BYE BIRDIE’: See November 14, 2 & 8 p.m. ‘TARTUFFE’: See November 14. ‘POLITICALLY C O R R E C T ’ CABARET: See November 15. ‘MY FAIR LADY’: See November 15. ‘U B U ’: See November 15.
w c rds U N D E R G R O U N D RAILROAD B O O K TALK: Louella Bryant discusses the research that went into her youngadult novel, The Black Bonnet, about two young fugitive slaves who stop in Burlington on an Underground Railroad trip to Canada. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556. ‘M A D SEA SO N ’: Nancy Means Wright signs her new mystery at the Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 388-2061.
kids P EA N U T CARNIVAL: Forget about face painting. This kids fair features a tat too and fingernail booth. Used books, toys and sports equipment will also be for sale. Hinesburg Elementary School, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2484. NATURE PROGRAM: W hy do some birds stay in Vermont for the winter and
others go south? Youngsters learn how to make bird feeders at the Varnum Library, Jeffersonville, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 8889218. ‘D ISCOVER SHAKESPEARE’: James Loehlin o f the Dartmouth College drama faculty makes the bard family friendly. Warner Bentley Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., 11 a.m. Free. Info, 6 0 3 -6 4 6 -2 0 1 0 . STORY TIME: Kids over three listen up at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 8 65-7216.
etc D A N C E & D R U M CO NFEREN CE: See November 15, 9:30 a.m. midnight. T E L E C O M M U N IC A T IO N S & HEALTH CO NFEREN CE: See November 15. PEACE & JU STIC E CELEBRATION: John Tucker keynotes the annual meeting o f the Peace and Justice Center, which includes reports on race relations, welfare reform and the living wage campaign. The discussion is open to all. College Street Congregational Church, Burlington. Potluck, 5:30 p.m. Talks, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345. ENTERPRISE O PE N H O USE: Residents, businesses, non-profits and public agencies are invited to ask ques tions about the Public Safety Project, the Vietnamese Association and other Enterprise Com m unity programs. Enterprise Com m unity Resource Center, 64 North St., Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7284. T E C H N O L O G Y IN V E N T IO N C O NTEST: High school teams compete for cash prizes with bicycle pum p-pow ered devices that move recyclables over a five-foot wall. Watch science and math in action in Patrick Gym, UVM , Burlington, 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 656-8748. MYSTICAL ARTS OF T IB E T ’: Nine monks, each one singing three notes at once, offer hypnotic sacred chants and dance. Twelve-foot long traditional horns sound at Twilight Theatre, Lyndon State College, 8 p.m. $14.50. Info, 800-8055559. Also check out the free closing cer em ony for a sacred sand painting; the sand mandala will be destroyed at 2 p.m. at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury.
CRAFT D EM O : Learn how to make your own greeting cards using rubber stamps, em bossing and block prints. Boutilier’s, Church Street Marketplace, Burlington, noon - 3 p.m. Free. Info, 864 -5 4 7 5 . ‘STAM P O N SH R IN K PL A ST IC : A craft demonstration offers a low-cost “fabric.” Stamp O n It, Essex Junction, 13 p.m. Free. Info, 872 -0 8 7 7 . ART & ARTISAN MARKET: Weavings, gingerbread, birch bark and books for children will be for sale at the Com m unity Center in Jericho, 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Free. Info, 899 -4 9 9 3 . CRAFT & T R A D E SHOW : Jericho shows o ff its small businesses, and its his toric character, with horse-drawn carriage rides, a magic show and an appearance by Santa. Jericho Elementary School and beyond, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free. Info, 8994065. CRAFT SHOW : Get a scientific educa tion, and shop for etched glass, kid cloth ing and clay sculpture. Montshire Museum, Norwich, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. $5. Info, 6 49-2200. A D IR O N D A C K HIKE: Bring lunch, water and lots o f sweaters on a chilly trek up Upper and Lower Wolfjaw. The views are great. Meet at the UV M Visitor Parking Lot at 7 a.m. Free. Register, 6 58-5583.
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B U R L IN G T O N O RATO RIO SOCIETY: David Neiweem conducts Haydn’s Creation oratorio, complete with the famous “With Verdure Clad” aria. Ira Allen Chapel, U V M , Burlington, 3 p.m. $9. Info, 863-6149. PIA N O CO NCERT: Natasha Paden performs Bach’s Chaconne in D and Venezia E Napoli by Liszt. Proceeds bene fit the Honduran National Music School. McCarthy Arts Center, St. M ichael’s College, Colchester, 3 p.m. Donations. Info, 6 5 4-2535. W O M E N ’S CABARET: Acoustic music, storytelling and comedy by six female performers — Monika Baege, Sarah Sinnott, Mary McGinniss, Juliet McVicker, Kathryn Blume and Cheryl
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Carmi — benefit Burlington W om ens Week. 135 Pearl, Burlington, 8 p.m. $3. Info, 8 6 3-2343. PH ILIPPE E N T R E M O N T : T h e worldfamous pianist and conductor makes a rare U .S. recital appearance under the auspices o f the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy and C hopin will be performed. Concert Hall, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. $19. Info, 4 4 3 -6 4 3 3 .
O PE N REHEARSAL: W omen lend their vocal chords to a harmonious rehearsal o f the Champlain Echoes. S. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864-6703.
six-mile walk on farm roads and trails offers meadows, woods and lake views. Wear bright clothes. It’s hunting season. Meet at the U V M Visitors Lot at 7 a.m. Free. Register, 658-5583. RO AD WALK: Take a brisk five-mile walk along parts o f Horn o f the M oon Road. Meet at M ontpelier High School, 9 a.m. Free. Info, 223-7035.
th ea ter ‘D O U N T O O T H E R S’: Craig Mitchell performs his one-man musical about being gay and black. 135 Pearl, 8 p.m.
Free. Info, 878-4918. B O O K D ISC U SSIO N : Selected Stories o f M ary Wilkins Freeman is part o f a turnof-the-century series comparing the approach o f the next century with the last one. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Info, 223 -3 3 3 8 .
th e a te r ‘PATIENCE*: See Novem ber 13. ‘BYE BYE B IR D IE ’: See Novem ber 14, 1 & 6:30 p.m. ‘TARTUFFE’: See Novem ber 14, 2 p.m. ‘MY FAIR LADY’: See Novem ber 15, 4 p.m. ‘U B U ’: See Novem ber 15, 1 p.m.
t ilm ‘PAINTERS P A IN T IN G ’: This docu mentary looks into the studios o f N ew York pop artists A ndy Warhol, Robert Motherwell and W illem de Kooning. Cafe N o N o , Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 8 65-5066.
w c rds ARCH ER MAYOR REA DING : See November 13. W aldenbooks, Burlington Square Mall, 2-4 p.m.
kids FAMILY ART DAY: Performances and demonstrations urge young ones to explore the arts o f Africa. H ood Museum o f Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H ., noon - 5 p.m. Free admission. $3 per activity. Info, 6 0 3 -6 4 6 -2 8 0 8 .
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Lens looks at slides and prints from sum mer and foliage seasons. 201 Del ah an ty Hall, Trinity College, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 864 -6 4 8 5 . BEFORE ROSA PARKS*: Black women were resisting public transportation way before Rosa Parks. W illi Colem an details the history in a lecture entitled, “Loose, Disorderly and Demanding." Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, U V M , Burlington, 12:15-1:15 p.m. Free. Info, 6 5 6 -4 2 8 2 . NATIVE AM E R IC A N TALK: Santos H awksblood talks about the continuing struggle. North Lounge, Billings, U V M . Burlington, 11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 6 5 6 -2 0 0 5 . C A T H O L IC LECTURE: Can G od ’s existence be proven? Listen and discuss at the Catholic Center, Redstone Campus, U V M , Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6 5 6-2005. T E E N HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treatment for sexually related problems. Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 8 6 3 -6 3 2 6 . E M O T IO N S A N O N Y M O U S : Stressed out? People with depression, anxiety and other emotional problems meet at the O ’Brien Civic Center, S. Burlington, 7:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-9036.
PARIS IS CHURNINGT he M adwoman of Chaillot, a fanciful celebration o f life and love, dates back to post-war France. The play runs through Saturday at Champlain College.
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J O H N Z O R N & MASADA: The irrev erent composer-saxophonist and his allstar band play jazzy Jewish blues — and klezmer. See review in “Sound Advice.” Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 8 p.m. $7-17. Info, 863-5966.
O P E N REHEARSAL: The Amateur Musicians Orchestra welcom es new play ers, especially ones with brass instru ments. N o audition is required. Music Room , S. Burlington High School, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 985 -9 7 5 0 .
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‘H O M E A L O N E ’: Are you ready to be a latch-key kid? Those over eight learn safety skills at Burgess Assembly, U V M , Burlington, 6-7 p.m. Free. Register, 865-2278.
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Loathing television — or claiming to do so — has become a badge o f honor. This never ceases to astonish me. Every day all across this great cable-riddled, satellite-shad owed land, millions o f people routinely boast o f their con tem pt for and abstinence from television with the same moral superiority and disdain they reserve for strip-mining, Newt Gingrich or the clubbing o f baby seals. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a loather o f televi sion. In my opinion this is trendiness o f the nuttiest sort. W ho in his or her right mind would not honestly have to rank the device with other marvels o f the modern age like medicine, global phone service, the automobile and indoor plumbing? Is there, after all, another force in the world which so unites, informs and, every now and then, even entertains us? Many people say they don’t watch TV because it’s so m indnum bingly terrible and then change the subject so you don’t ask how they know if they’re not watching. These people, who love referring to T V enthusiasts as “couch potatoes,” will be inter ested to learn o f a study just published in The New England Journal o f Medicine. It offers dramatic proof that a person watching TV burns exactly the same num ber o f calories as a person reading a book. O r lis tening to opera. M any people say that tele vision would be better if there were more programs like “Masterpiece T heatre,” “Nova” or “The McNeil Lehrer Report.” W hat they mean, o f course, is that television would then be better for them. But would these same people ever suggest that the magazine industry is odious simply because it produces periodicals other than The National Review and Architectural Digest* O r that other people should not be able to pick up Mother Jones, Cracked, or any o f the fine biker glossies? T V ’s sublimely democratic nature is, in fact, its chief virtue. There is literally some thing for everyone on the dial these days — everything from “Gom er Pyle” to graphic surgi cal procedures. How ungener ous to suggest that television should cater only to smartypants. How would these arbiters o f T V taste like it, if, say, radio decided to cater only to country-western fans? N ot very much, I reckon.
Certainly, most television blows. This is unavoidable, as there are hundreds o f channels and 24 hours in a day to be programmed. O n the other hand, there is only so much literary genius to go around. Thankfully, there is now a device that effectively screens out 100 percent o f the medi um’s undesirable material. It’s called the o jf button. W ho wants around-theclock genius — literary or o th erwise — in their face, any way? Serious art and penetrat ing analysis have their place and ennoble us, but let’s be honest: Life can be a stinky bag o f laundry. Diversion has its place as well. And let’s not underestimate the medium as a source o f information. There are few things I enjoy more than sinking into a big chair, surfing the dial and picking up a little “Headline News” here, a blast o f Learning Channel science there, then over to an interview with Edward Albee on Bravo, then back to Geraldo for — what else? — the latest on the Simpson case. Television can be as informative and educational as any library, bookstore or museum. And a whole lot more fun in some cases. Look, even Jean-Paul Sartre had to lighten up once in awhile. W hat do you bet he did so by watching Jerry Lewis movies on the late show? There’s a time for high art and for low-brow laughs; for serious reporting and talkshow piffle; for Fanny and Alexander and Tango and Cash. Television is defined by its contradictions in the same way that hum ans are. Referring to his equal love o f the sacred and profane in his fellow man, Walt W hitm an dismissed the conflict with a wonderful line: “I am vast — I contain m ulti tudes!” I believe W hitm an w ould’ve gotten a massive kick out o f television and the buzzing, blurping cathode m ir ror it holds up to hum ankind. I may not be quite as hoppedup on the hum an race as he was, but I do find it endlessly fascinating, and I’m grateful for the ability to m onitor it, learn about it, com m une with it, and share a laugh or tear with it — an opportunity that television is unrivaled in pro viding. And if I have to sit through an occasional commercial for 2000 Flushes, that’s a price I’m happy to pay. □ “Tube Fed, ’’a commentary on television by Rick Kisonak, will appear monthly in this space.
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;■ Gary Sinese gives a suitably weasely perfor mance as the scumbag behind the plot. Rene Russo co-stars as the magnates wife. She and Gibson do a highly credible job o f conveying the unspeakable pain that must crush a couple confronted by this particular horror. In fact, for a time, their undiluted grief makes watching the movie a borderline uncomfortable experi ence. So do scenes o f the young boy (played by Gibson turns the tables on his sort's Nick N oltes son, Brawley) blindfolded, hand kidnapper in the latest from Ron Howard. cuffed to a bed and circled by a band o f bicker ing, hair-trigger vultures. Strangely, the story drags in the second act. Things come briefly back to life when Gibson’s character makes an alarming decision. The feel o f the film shifts from one reminiscent o f Seven to a sort o f high3 tone D ie H ard when the father, convinced that the people who took his son will have no reason to return him alive if he pays the ransom, goes on live television to announce that he’ll pay the two million — but in the form o f a bounty to anyone who will bring him the kidnapper. Dead or alive. For the last hour or so Gibson and Sinese play a game o f cat-and-mouse that’s encumbered by an overload o f twists and turns. Howard has two or three satisfactory opportunities to end the film, and instead keeps tacking on gratuitous, ’70s-style Brian De Palma bonus climaxes. In the long run —* and the run does wind up a little long —- Ransom, though emotionally grueling, ends up gimmicky. Gibson offers a pyrotechnic display o f acting and is never less than believable in his panic, horror or outrage. Unfortunately, the rest o f the film — from its premise to the many convolu tions o f its plot •—* is hard to take as seriously.
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(Mar. 2 1 -Apr. 19): 1 dreamt o f an anarchist nun. (I knew I that’s w hat she was because those i words were on the T-shirt she wore over her habit.) She cam e up to m e and whispered conspiratorially, “Tell Aries it’s tim e to explore the areas where piety and rebellion overlap.” I | asked her to expand, w hereupon she dropped to her knees and uttered a prayer, w h ich began, “D ear G od, please help Aries folks rise up and overthrow all influences w h ich hinder their intim acy w ith the sacred.”
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(Apr. 2 0 -M a y 20): It m ay be hard for you to believe h ow >attractive you are right now. Even worse, you m ay be incapable o f appreciating the exact nature o f your gorgeousness. As sad as this is, I’m not surprised. O n the o n e hand y ou ’re accustom ed to givin g exaggerated attention to your flaws. O n the other hand, you overcom pensate for that m istake by in flatin g the im portance o f go o d qualities that aren’t at the heart o f your beauty. D o you th in k it w ou ld be possible to drop all that fancy m aneuvering and sim p ly cherish the real reasons y o u ’re such an exquisite creature? I do.
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m ean ing w e flower at night. W e often do our best w ork after dark, and m any o f us generate our deepest insights w hile h id in g under the covers or skulking around inside our ow n self-m ade fog. T here’s on e m ore way w e fit the definition: W e b loom in the dark o f the year, reaching our creative peak in the astrological m o n th o f Scorpio, w h en N ovem b er’s d im m in g light awakens our prim ordial fertility.
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(July 23-A ug. 22): I’ve got a healing visualization for you to m editate on this week. It’s a little gross, but well w orth your effort. N o w please envision the follow in g scenario: G od has asked you to carry ou t a special assignm ent, but you refuse and instead b ook a luxury cruise. D uring your journey, a storm blow s you overboard, w hereupon you ’re sw allow ed w h o le by a whale. After han ging ou t in the beast’s belly for a little to o lon g, surviving on yucky plankton and squid, you ’re finally vom ited o u t on to a beach. G o d ’s there w aiting for you w ith a fresh contract, ready to give you a secon d chance.
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LIBRA
(Sept. 2 3 -O ct. 22): A m echanical little voice in m y head just told m e that you should get your brakes inspected. I assume the voice m eant the brakes in your car, but I can never be sure w ith these autonom ous personalities in m y brain. T h ey often use com m on p lace objects as m etaphors for subtle psychic processes. W h oop s. T h e voice just spoke again. It said that w hile you’re at it, you should check your shock absorbers, get a tune-up, and drive like crazy towards the dawn.
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(N ov 2 2 -D ec. 21): I w ent to a w orkshop on the art o f cultivating spiritual bliss. M idw ay through, the teacher con d u cted a guided m editation designed to lead the group into a state o f “com passionate ecstasy.” M any o f us, however, seem ed to take a detour on the way, and for a tim e the room was filled w ith sobs. In the discussion that follow ed, we alm ost unanim ously testified that the m editation had shepherded us straight into the m ost painful m em ories o f our lives. O n ly w hen w e’d let those wash over us were we ripe for relaxed rapture. T h e moral o f the story, I con clu d ed , m ay be this: To find the bliss you ’re m issing, you m ust first let your heart break w id e open. W h ich is m y advice to you this week, Sagittarius.
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I was all set to advise you that this would be an excellent week to handfeed strawberries to a luscious playmate. On the face o f it, the planets are practically begging you to supernatural levels o f concentration Nurture a dear one; with syvpet and stamina. And yet get a load o f this treasures. But then, while reading pithy quote from Vonnegut Earth Island Journal, I made the concerning the meaning o f life; “We horrific discovery that strawb< are here on Earth to fort around, and farmers spray an average of 2; don’t let anybody tell you any > pounds o f pesticide per acre.' different.” Could it be that Vonne rs reminded me of a subliminal intrepid ability to accomplish I’d detected (but tried to igno herculean tasks has thrived not in ? e| | : your astrological;aspi&ts, o f but because o f his mastery of fa around? 1 suspect so. Keep this frw
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craw ling across the ceilin g o f the Sistine C h ap el.” W e literally can’t see, let alon e interact w ith, the splendor that lies all around us. “W e do n ot live in reality,” he asserts. “W e live in our paradigms, our habituated perceptions, our illu sion s.” I happen to believe that T h o m p so n ’s n otion is 9 9 .9 percent true 9 9 .9 percent o f the tim e for 9 9 .9 percent o f the hum an race. But every now and then there com es a brief grace period w hen the veil o f hallucination blow s aside, providing a chance to glim pse the glories that lie below the threshold o f our perceptions. T h is w eek is the closest approxim ation to that m agic m om en t you Aquarians have had in m onth s, m aybe years.
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already gotten across with effective subtlety. Thankfully, these incidents o f overkill are rare. T he book whirls with forensics and a steely, rapid intelligence that leaves the reader pleasurably intoxicated. Com pelling and unpredictable, The Ragmans Memory gives a lot o f pith for the pulp. M a d Season, by Nancy Means Wright, is the poet’s first attem pt at the mystery genre. She has a long way to go to master it, but proves a color ful storyteller. T he story goes . like this: W hen an elderly Vermont farmer and his wife are assaulted and robbed o f their life savings, the local undertakers son, C olm H anna, takes it upon him self to figure out whodunit. H itting the county roads in his father’s hearse, H anna hunts down one culprit the cops won’t need bloodhounds to find the fiend is holding a wad o f money that smells like it fell “out o f a cow’s ass.” T h at’s what happens when you don’t trust banks and keep your cash stitched inside a barn coat. Things get even smellier when a count or two o f m urder is added to burglary. Soon, though, rom antic intrigue sweetens the air.
books strongest suit. T he depiction o f the farmers ruina tion is truly moving. Also, the matically entangled in this m urder mystery is the clash between native jingoism and the perceived snootiness o f transplanted fladanders. R uths son, Vic, one o f the m ost sym pathetically rendered charac ters, has a hick complex, and gets bullied by his white-collar “city” classmates. Ruth, although an admirable, strong character, is host to some rather peculiar sense imagery. W hen she inhales a beer at the local bar (ironically named the “Alibi”) she confuses the effect o f alco hol with menopause. Later, she likens the despair o f losing a child to the agonies o f PMS. We also never get a clear idea o f w hat motivates H anna to take on the role o f vigilante. There is nothing impulsive or impassioned about the person ality o f this self-appointed D ick Tracy; it seems simply as if he had nothing better to do when the crime occurred. T he inconsequential facts we learn about H anna him self — for one, that he masturbates in his father’s funeral hom e while thinking about the bodies in the adjoining morgue — make
mmm iservations, mce n a n n a s tepic semantics, also drain the book o f potential vitality. T hen there’s the tragic num ber o f W rights metaphors that go belly up. How, for instance, is the act o f injecting embalming fluid into a corpse anything “like needling in crack?” Or, when Ruth opens her m outh, do her lips really part “like the Red Sea?” Those delicate transgres sions aside, the strength o f M a d Season lies in the semistream-of-consciousness pas sages where W right proves to have a natural ear for the ver nacular. Wading through the rest to get to the book’s charms, however, calls for some pretty high boots. □ Archer Mayor signs copies o f T he Ragman’s M emory at Bear Pond Books in Montpelier November 13 at 7 p.m. and Waldenbooks, Burlington Square M a ll November 17, 2 -4 p.m. He’l l be a t the Book Rack in Winooski, Bear Pond Stowe and Couching Lion in Waterbury on November 29; Nancy Means Wright signs M ad Season November 16, 2 -4 p.m. at the Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury.
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and soul o f the place.” Gilbert doesn’t hide the morale problems at Fletcher Allen. The medical center is a new and uncertain organiza tion — the product o f a merg er between Medical Center o f Vermont, Fanny Allen Hospital ilbert is not all work. He is and the large physician prac well known for his sense tice, University Health Center. o f hum or and for throw Gilbert says there is bound to ing engaging dinner parties be uneasiness with it. with his wife Maurene at their “If somebody merged home in South Burlington. At Vermont and New Hampshire, least around reporters, he does and called it Vershire, I’d be n’t seem to have a corporate writing underground newslet edge; on the contrary, he’s ters,” he says. “It would-take me awhile to like those people.” Gilbert neverthe less says low morale results from hard working employees “There’s a huge am ou nt a t who are bothered most when some thing gets in the way stake here th at has nothing o f the best patient care. “In a sense we have great morale because it’s focused to do w ith health care. on the patient,” he says. But he also — Governor Dean agrees that employ ees aren’t yet getting a clarity o f vision and leadership for Fletcher Allen, par ticularly from higher management. It probably does almost folksy. n’t help having a former lobby But Gilbert calls “learning” ist trying to restore credibility his recreation. He recently in a hospital. But Gilbert spent a couple years reading comes with many talents. about the Civil War; before “He’s someone who can that he studied trees. This past look at situations with a new summer he read books on
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T O M EN SEEKING W O M EN N E E D SO M E O N E T O SPOIL! SW M , 40; heart o f a wizard; soul o f a poet; mind o f a philosopher. Sense o f humor required. 64108 rH A V E A HANK ER FOR YOU ~ GOTCITA... It’s without reversal; it’s desire at its best — true blue romance for ever... Date... 6 ’3 ”, 200lbs. and fun lov ing -- k. 64114 TS T H IS YOU? SWF. 26-40, ready to be pampered and respected in a long-term relationship. I am a professional N S /N D SW M , 40, 5’5”. World citizen and trav eler looking for the special woman to share the wonders o f life and make a family. N o games. 64101 ABN O R M AL G UY LO O K ING FOR an abnormal woman. I’m 31, have a few degrees and teach crazy kids. Outside the asylum I hang out, read, workout and enjoy living. I’m looking for a similar woman. Remember: to be better than the norm, you have to deviate from it. 64109 ROM ANCE, PASSION A N D FUN awaits the right, good natured, attractive, intelligent SF, 25-40, with great sense o f humor. D W M , young 43, attractive, professional, seeks friendly dates and pos sible LTR. Call or write. 64117 EVERYTHING B U T T H E GIRL! SW M , 26, ISO SF, 20-36, for soul excursion o f romantic diversion. I enjoy SF, the mountains and music o f most varieties. You: sophisticated, intelligent, mature. D on ’t miss your chance on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! YOU: M O D E L, STR IP-D A N C E R O R look-a-like, goddess? N o grey-heads. For: companionship, role playing. Me: edu cated, tall, “work-outer”, giver, non short, dark hair, like some kink & fetish. 64118 TALLISH, SLIM, BRAINY, CRE ATIVE, N S /N D SM, 30s, into body work, dancing, the outdoors, com m uni cation, growth... seeks lighthearted, gen tle spirited, healthy, playful F, 20s-30s for intimacy, fun, maybe more. 64107 SW PM , 37, H A N D S O M E , IN SHAPE, down to earth. I like romance, skiing, travel, movies, cooking, writing an adventure ISO young at heart F for companionship. 64104 W H A T D O YOULIKE? Outdoors, the cultural life, friends, deep connection with someone? Creative, educated, in shape, good-looking SW PM seeks similar SWF (25-35) for everything. 64103 WAR VET, 45, ST U C K IN LATE 1960s, needs compassionate, understand ing F to bring him into 90s. Single, strong, shy and muscular. Last date: 1972. Help, please. 64099 EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP sought by handsome NSSW M with integrity, humor, creativity, intelligence and charm loves skiing, music, movies, life! Seeking fit F, 33-43, with brains, beauty, smiles, spontaneity. 64100 SW JPM , 31, 5 ’8 ”, ATTRACTIVE, FIT, educated, successful, happy, into hiking, biking, jazz/blues, seeking relaxed, em o tionally secure, fit, NS SPF/student, 2332, with a sense o f humor. 64093 H A N D S O M E D A D D Y O F O N E seeks attractive PF, 23-30, to cherish. Must tolerate/enjoy pool and nights at home. Perverse sense o f humor and competetiveness required. 64096 H IR SU T E LOVER: 50ISH , 5 ’10”, ’ „ 175lbs., attractive, fit, Mozart to soft
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rock, arts, theatre, jeans to dressing up ISO wonderful, wanton, willing, slim, attractive, sensual woman for life’s adven tures. 64091 T H E LOVE Y O U G E T is equal to the love you give. D W M , 45 , I45lbs., 5’8 ”. Likes being w/ som eone special and doing fun things. H ow about you? 64090 SEEKING U N IQ U E , EASY-GOING MATCH (SWF) for SW PM , 23, who enjoys the outdoqfs, simple things in life, and is fit, intelligent, honest and sincere. 64082 FREE HEAT. D W PM , 37, romantic, caring, enjoys dining, adventure, travel, sports. Works 2nd shift. N o games - sick o f the bar scene. You: attractive, friends first/LTR. 64089 D W M , 45, 184Ibs. I’M A VERY SENSITIVE man who likes camping, fishing, dinning in or out. Looking for som eone to share life’s pleasures. 64088 SW M , 29, N S , SEEKS SWF, N S , FOR a LTR. I like romantic evenings, art, photography, cuddling and sharing quali ty time. All interested F, 18-25, RSVP. 64083 ARE YO U A N ATTRACTIVE 20-30 YO F who would like to explore your submissive side with a tall, attractive, fit, athletic, well educated, 43 YO SWPM? 64077 W ANTED: SIZZLING H O T Central V T woman w / insatiable apetite. You: naughty girl, submissive, desiring a man to play with for you own pleasure. Me: 29, W M , 5 ’9 ”, 170lbs., intelligent, pas sionate, gentle and open-m inded. Write me and dominate. 64078 G ENTLE, LO VING , SPIRITUAL, N U D IS T , wharf rat, BiSW M, 41, sm ok er seeks adventurous, alike BiF w / van for companionship (age, race, looks unimportant). 64079 SW M , 39, ISO SWF, 2 5 -3 5 , who loves movies, sports, music, likes to just hang out and talk and have a good time. Sounds good? Try me. 64075 SW PM , 44 , N S , 6 ’, ACTIVE, FIT, attractive, witty, not to m ention humble, loves biking, skiing, travel, movies, music. Seeking sane woman, 30-45, for fun or more. 640 6 2 W IN T E R ’S C O M IN G ! D o you feel a chill? Let’s melt together beside a raging fire after a passionate day o f skiing and make whipped cream for our cappucino. SW M , 25, tall, fit, and handsome seeks happy, healthy, wholesom e F, 22+, for winter excursions. 6 4 067 SERIO US RELATIONSHIP. N SA SM , 30, handsome, honest, single, 5 1 0 ”, 1551bs., perfect in cooking. Searching for 22-40 YO for real life, well cultured LTR. 64051 O N E W IL D ASPARAGUS. SW M , 20, N S, attractive Burlingtonian. Interests: biking, photography, reading, nature, cooking, movies. Seeking: creative, hon est, healthy, attractive, Fun F, 19-29. 64048 M ID 40s, FLOWER BEARING, easy going, pleasant to be w /, attractive, inshape guy ISO an attractive partner w / a sense o f humor who enjoys travel, long walks, the outdoors and laughter. Please find me, I can’t find you. 64061 W A NTED: LATINO O R H ISPA N IC lady. W PM looking for som eone to wine and dine. Give it a try. Let’s have some fun. 64050 N O M O R E H EA D GAMES. SPM , 33, 6 ’, 160lbs, interested in m eeting som e one ready for relationship. Must be fun and independent and like kids. Call me! Won’t regret it. 64053
Dear Lola, My best friend and I have this on going, ever-present tear that people perceive us as a lesbian couple. It seems no matter what we do, it locks like we're together. The situation has gotten sc bad that we don't even know how to introduce each other in public. "Friend" sounds like we're trying too hard. "Housemate" is slightly incriminating. And just using names makes us lock guilty by omission. We aren't homophobic or anything, we just don't want to give the wrong impression about the nature of cur relationship. —Gal Pals in Plainfield Dear Gats, Oh, brother! I mean sister! I must share a quote by Kurt Vcnnegut with you: "you are what you pretend to be, sc be careful what you pretend to be." By being so concerned about other people's perceptions, you change them. People will think what they want, your hesitancy does, however, exacerbate the problem. The real issue here is your concerns about what others think of you. I suspect this fear carries over into other aspects of your lives. Friends, families and acquaintances won't always understand your methods of operating, your mindset or your choice of mate. It's human nature to deconstruct, scrutinize and analyze others. But when you're on the receiving end, you don't have to internalize it. Be secure in your sexuality and your friendships— whatever they really are. With love,
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PERSON < REVEL IN V E R M O N T . Play hard and long in all seasons, outdoors and in. Tall, slim, attractive lawyer seeks LTR with congruent NSW PF, about 40 , possessing intelligence, warmth, passion energy, cul ture. Kayak, hike, bike, ski and travel by day. Attend theatre, dances and movies by evening. Talk and read unceasingly. 64054 A G O O D CATCH! SW M , 33, FIT pro fessional, N S, enjoys golf, theatre, dining out, running, sports, good conversation and much more ISO physically fit, S/DW F, N S, 27-36, for fun and possibly more. 64058 SW M , 18, L O O K IN G FO R SW F to go out and party with, but not looking for relationship. Let’s have som e real fun! 64060 SEEKING T E N D E R , LONELY W O M A N who loves music. I’m a musi cian, mid 40s, 5 ’5 1 /2 ”, decent looking, young at heart. H op in g for a compatible partner. 64055 LONELY R O M A N T IC . D W M , 44, 5’10”, N D seeks slim /m edium D/SW F, 38-46, to share quiet times, humor, dancing, music, dining, theater, out doors, your interests and more. Let’s talk. 64045 LAME? PERH APS N O T ! 1 need not question the SWF ISO a 23 YO SW M who is athletic, com ely and intelligent. Question me! 64044 TAO SPIRITUALIST. Gentle autumn rains/We sing blues rhapsodic for/Lone fluttering leaf. Thirty-som e stars/Glitter, fireflies dance; life/Measured in single heartbeats. *note: these are two haiku poems. 6 4 040 W ARNING : T he Surgeon General has determined that consum ption o f this product will cause honesty, sincerity, friendship, com panionship, love, passion, fidelity and security. 6 4 030
A D V E N T U R O U S , Y O U N G SW M , 46, N S seeks F who enjoys hiking, concerts, biking, theater, canoeing or evening dining out. 64029 G E N . GEO RG E A R M ST R O N G C U ST E R seeks out Elizabeth (SWF, 25+) for a ride into history. This legendary stand won't be a last. 64041 TELL M E A B O U T YOURSELF. Photo welcom e. Reply guaranteed. 40 YO SM: smart, good looking and fun. Responses from wom en aged 18-40 - o f any race welcome. 64039 D W M , 55, N S /N D W / N O U N A C CEPTABLE H ABITS, brown hair and eyes, m edium build, 5’5”, looking for com panionship in the hopes o f finding an unattached lady who would enjoy evening rides and spending som e free time together. Please respond ladies, even if you would just like a friend. 64014 VERY SIMPLE! SBM , 4 2 , N A /N D , is looking for som eone who is serious about life, love and relationships. 64013 SM , 41. O U T O F DREAM S. Reduced to wishes and schemes. 64024 F U N + RO M A N C E . INTERESTS: friends, walks, sports and movies. SW M , 33, seeks SF, 20-30, to share special times with. 64011 28, SW PM , JU ST M O V E D HERE. Active, fun, attractive, 6 ’, 200 lbs., likes rollerblading, skiing, golf, good restau rants & conversation. Wants similar SF for friends, dating, possible relationship. 64026 Y O U N G PROFESSOR who studies the Middle Ages, but is not middle aged. I am an attractive SW M , 33, into having fun, but would like to have a long term relationship. I do more than read books. 64999 IT ’S BEEN SIX YEARS SIN C E MY DIVO RCE. I’m ready for a relationship if you are. SW M , N S, professional,
> PERSON ' superb shape. Serious replies only, please. 64010
BURLINGTON AREA GW M, 37, ARTIST, NS, attractive, young looking, seeks soulmate (25-45). Intercuts: spirituali ty, nature, foreign films, literature, watching sunsets and shooting stars at lake. 64047 DWM, 43, PROF., YOUNG & ATTRAC TIVE seeks same for Fall fun. Loves hikes, picinics, good wine, travel, music. OK, your move! 64019
GAY, BIG, TALL, LO O K ING FOR A nice woman (Chitt. C ounty would be nice). I’ll give my heart. 64015
WOMEN SEEKING WOMEN MEN SEEKING MEN IN SEARCH OF FEM TO SOFT BUTCH, 20-30, sincere, romantic, wild woman to share quiet and wild times exploring! Enjoy movies, toys, fishing, pic nics, beaches, sunsets and moonlit skies. Looking for someone to fill a big hole in my heart. 64092_______________________ COME SUMMER, breathe in the dance of the butterfly, the flight o f the cardinal, the waltz o f the bumblebee. This winter, spend time getting acquainted. Older lesbian ISO nurturing nature wise companion. 64069 ARTISTIC, MUSICAL, ROMANTIC, bright, educated, child spirit, nature wor shipper. Slim/feminine appearence. 43 YO, N S /N D , in straight marriage w/ CFS wants out, but unable to be self supportive. I desire loving, supportive, non-butch friends who are non-judgemental, kind, deep and gentle. 64066___________________________ SLIGHTLY OFFBEAT, BUT DO W N TO earth SF, 23, seeks similar (22-27) to share friendship and to explore secret passions. Must be willing to have fun. 64059_______ HOMEY, INTELLIGENT FEMME ISO same. Are you spiritual, beautiful, sane? I’m a busy single mom looking for friends... possibly more. 64056 CARUMBA! Run, dance, jump, snooze, deep talk, laugh, eat, hug, dream, stroke the cat, truly value one another, real friends. Lesbian seeks honest sister spirit. 64042 CHRONIC AUSTRALIAPHILE, 23, seeks fellow sufferer. Must possess clean lungs, a reverence for nature and art, and be pre pared to take the cure next...April? Letters, please. 64017
SEEKING MIKE + GUYS LIKE HIM. Approx. 6’, gorgeous, call me “sir", polite, full of fun. Me: BiWM, 35, 5’10”, 162lbs„ seeking fun, not relationship. 64111 SWM, ALL MAN, MANY INTERESTS. Fun times, rough play or quiet nights. 32, 5’ 11”, 200 lbs. Very new, need teacher. 64095 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 19, 5’9", 160lbs., college student looking for someone to teach me. I’m interested. Discrete fun, no strings. Burlington area. 64097 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 18, 5’H ”, 190lbs., looking for hot, discrete fun. No strings! 18-25 YOs. 64086 WHOLESOME AND SEXY. 6 ’2”, swim mer’s build, Italian, handsome, big smile, open-minded, distracted professional and foreign adventurer seeks confident, natural, masculine, muscular, playful friend and lover. 64076 LOVE TO #*%@&!, but want more! Fun, playful GM, 26, 6’2”, 165lbs., looking for GM, 24-36, playful and honest. 64063 GBM, 36, 6’, 185 lbs., N S /N D , ATH LETIC, liberal minded, seeks GM, 20-36, for friendship, possible LTR. Physically dis abled GM considered, too. Willing to relo cate statewide, 64070 ADORE HO T LADDIES. Me: I’m very nice looking; don’t look my age (46 yrs. young), but act it. 6’, 195 lbs., dark hair, blue eyes, enjoy sex. No fatties, sorry. 64065 GWM, 33, 6’, 1751bs. I AM A MAN who likes men who are MEN!! Interests: intellec tual depth, rugged workouts, cars, comedy... oh yeah, fun (20-40). 64052
OT1IER Bi MALE CD SEEKS DISCRETE PEO PLE for fun and play. Tired of boring evenings and long days. Call and leave mes sage. 64071
B O U R N E ’S TE XACO , 11/9, 3:30pm . You: red Volvo wagon, brown curly hair, stunning, great smile. Me: beard, glasses, hat, leather jacket. Let’s continue our TIRE-som e conversation. 64119 SAUCY JACK’S, 11/5 . YOO:"20s7 1hi n7 black pants, boots, hair (glossy), dark tur tle neck sweater, sitting by post in front o f bar, sensitive, kind, creative. Me: 20s, thin, brown pants sweater, hair, facing you, table by band, gentle, creative and felt a connection. Let’s talk, meet. 64113 CHERRY ST. PARKING GARAGE, 1 0 /1 1 , guy in uniform, nice looking. Me: long blonde hair, blue eyes, tight leather. Haven’t seen you again. Please call. 64094 CITY MARKE T, 1 0/26, 9:30pm . You: blonde, quiet smile, white blouse, table near counter. Me: green shirt, curious glances, window table. Care to meet? Conversation? Soon? Lets. Box 063
5 digit box num be r s can be contacted either through voice mail or by letter. 3 digit box numbers can only be contacted by letter. Send letter a long w/ $5 to PO Box 1 164, Burlington, V I 0 5 4 0 2 PRETTY, CULTURED, W ID O W (trans planted New Yorker) seeks gentle man, 6070, for heart to heart friendship. Box 071 PLEASE BE ADVISED that this svelte, capricously stubborn (SWNSF, 39) writer, performs perfunctory tasks poorly and rou tinely loses one sock to the hozone...Got any advice? Box 060 CLASSY W OM AN, SWPF, ROMANTIC, fit, 50s, seeks gentleman, 50-65, NS, to be guest and date for upcoming gala social event. Please respond w/ note. Box 058 TALL, FAIR, PERVERSE, impetuous, NS artist, 38, seeks tall, droll, cynical hardheaded, crusty, independent, well read/educated, savvy old soul to swap stories with. Box 052
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PROFESSIONAL W OM AN, 55, creative, smart, looks OK. Loves nature, backpack ing, travel, mountains, desert, ocean. Enjoys Mexican food, dark beer, looking for rocks, collecting seeds, architectural design, gar dening and Steinbeck. Seeking communica tive tall man with compatible interests, relaxed outlook and sense o f adventure. Box 066.
I ADORE MEN! Extremely happy Southern Belle (now living in VT) seeks pen-pal who loves the lost art o f letter writ ing. Box 050
ATTRACTIVE, FUN LOVING, SWFND7 44, light smoker, enjoys exercise, romantic dinners, horseback riding, X-C skiing ISO SM ND, 35-45, reasonably attractive. Photo please. Box 069
I PAINT LIKE M O NET (right-handed), I sing like Caruso (mouth open), I am built like a Greek God (two arms, etc.). If you are a smart and beautiful twenty-something
SWF, send me a photo and letter and I will write you back like Shakespeare (that is, in English). Box 073 ISO VERY CONFIDENTIAL LOVER to spend completely sensuous afternoons with. WM, 43, 6 ’2”, 225lbs., blond hair, green eyes, handsome, fun and sexy! Box 072 WILD- EYED IRISHMAN, 41, with tales to tell. Looking for fit, active, professional lass with stories of her own, for non-typical partnership based on growth, discovery, romance and children. Box 067 YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, SMART, INDE PENDENT and under 26. Your friends and family are amazed you’re not seeing anyone, but you’re special, and you’re picky. Me: funny, sensitive, good-looking, vegetarian, and in the same boat. Send smiley photo, and risk $5. At least we’ll be friends. Box 074 SWM, 50s, SEEKS FEMALE FOR TRIP to Las Vegas all expenses paid, except gam bling. Late Jan., ‘97. Why should I take you? Box 070__________________________ WE ARE SINGLE, 20-28, socially con scious, broad-minded, fun loving, adventur ous. Seek: comp^sion, depth, sincerity. Are: fit, attractive, intelligent. Love: culture,
dance, outdoors, life. Pursue: righteousness, dignity, love. Box 068_____ SWM, 27, LOOKING FOR A GO O D ONE. Or a good bad one.. Laffs and silly adventures to follow. Make yourself up as you go along. Box 065 QUINTESSENTIAL NICE GUY! SWM, NS, 35, fit, happy, health, educated, aspir ing poet, singer/songwriter. ENJF. Desires to meet like minded woman. Let’s create something together, friendship... Box 064 SWM, 41, DEAF, WANTS CHANGE & new beginnings, seeks F, same age (25-42). Lets start at coffee. Box 048
the risk to go into what feels like The Unknown? Box 057 HELP: CURIOSITY STRIKES AGAIN. Is there anyone there who is also curious? Let’s experiment together. I’m a heavy-set SWF looking for someone 30-38. Box 053
MEN: AFTERNOONS FREE? ME TOO! PBiWM, 40, brn/bl, 1651bs., discrete, very open-minded, good looking. My place. Around the world in one afternoon. Write and express your secret fantasies and I’ll come your way. Box 061 GWM - 5’9”, I65!bs., BRN/BLU, OPENM IN D ED , honest, NS, loves the outdoors, hiking, biking, nature - seeks GM, 20-40 for friendship and good times. Box 062 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 24, 6 ’, 185lts„ NS seeks same, 18-30, to satisfy our curiosity. Discretion a must. Write soon, photo appre ciated. Box 051
TS LESBIAN, TRAUMATIZED, discon nected from my body; seeking lesbian part ner w/ whom to reawaken in loving rela tionship of sensual, consensual, sexual plea sure. I’m 43 years old, 13 yrs. post-op, N S/N D , androgynous, Aquarius into per sonal growth. I’m seeking body conscious woman for deep, long-term friendship. If you’re out there will you join me in taking
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