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WILL CONSERVATIVES RULE BUSH? Conventional wisdom heard recently by political pundits says that President-elect George W. Bush should take steps to com­ promise, accommodate and include Democrats in his agenda.

This advice sounds reasonable and intuitive, but the last president who took that path was repeatedly ambushed.

I’m talking about President Bill Clinton. When he was elected in 1992 with less than 50 percent of the popular vote, he took large steps to the right in an effort to work with Republicans. First, he appointed a Republican, William Cohen, to lead Defense. Next, he championed a free trade law, NAFTA, that had far more Republican than Democratic sup­ port. Then he accommodated

Republicans on social issues (i.e., welfare reform) so much so that he was accused of stealing their issues.

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Ambassador for Peace At Christmastime, thoughts turn to family, and for this immigrants son, that means thinking of Ireland. Turns out were not alone. Someone else thinking of Ireland this Christmas is Vermont’s senior senator, Patrick J. Leahy (who is, by the way, half Italian.)

This year’s Leahy Christmas card features on the cover the smiling kissers of Himself and his darling bride, Marcelie Leahy, a registered nurse who was recently elected a justice of the peace in the Queen City. Behind them is the spectacular backdrop of the coast of Kerry and windswept Dingle Bay. And just last week, Vermont’s St. Patrick returned from a visit to the Emerald Isle with President Bill Clinton. As he pre­ pares to depart the White House, it’s time to acknowledge all Clinton has done to restore hope and peace to that island that poet William Butler Yeats painted as one of “great hatred, little room.”

And to acknowledge, as well, how much Vermont’s senator did to prod him into doing it.

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It was Bill Clinton who in 1994 personally spurned the advice of the State Department and the Justice Department, and heeded the advice of Sen. Leahy to grant a visa to Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams.

It was Bill Clinton who per­ sonally put the heat on the Brits to put the heat on the Ulster Unionists to negotiate face-toface with Adams and the IRA. It was Bill Clinton who per­ sonally assigned former Sen. George Mitchell of Maine the Herculean task of finding common ground on the blood-soaked Ulster landscape. ! Last week, the Irish gave Big Bill the royal treat­ ment. Seventy thousand turned out in a lashing rain to catch a glimpse of him in Dundalk, said Leahy. They lined the hedgerows for miles to catch the sight of his passing car. In their faces, said St. Patrick, he saw nothing but “love and tears.” Tears of joy on the faces of a people that once again can hope for peace.

“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” | Leahy recalled an Irish garda telling him of the crowds in Dundalk.

When they crossed the border into the north of Ireland, a plainclothes policeman was assigned to Vermont’s senator. Leahy recalled the officer informed him he was Protestant and added,

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Republican Walter Freed will win his race and have the most votes, too. Other than that, Vermont’s soon-to-be Speaker of the House and America’s soon-to-be President, George W. Bush, do have a few things in common.

Let’s see, now. First there’s the oil business.

Dubya was in the oil business in Texas. Walt the Salt is in the oil business in Vermont.

Then there’s education. Both are products of Ivy League institutions and the cultural breeding that goes with it. Dubya went to Yale. Salt Walter went to Dartmouth.

Both are Republicans replacing Democrats.

Both will bring new styles of leadership into play.

And both are eager to get going.

But while most folks know a whole lot about Dubya — more than we’d like to know in many cases — few people know anything about the man who is Vermont’s Speaker in Waiting.

Make no mistake. In terms of power, being Speaker of the House is a very big deal in this neck of the woods. Not only do you get the exclusive corner office with the executive wash­ room and shower, you get to hold the baton before the largest orchestra performing under the golden dome. And the 150member orchestra hangs on your every signal. Your every raised eyebrow. Every lick of the lips. Tongue in the cheek.

Speaker Freed is in position to direct the agenda at the Statehouse for the next two years. After four terms playing ball for the losing club, Salt Walter’s now the head coach, starting pitcher and lead-off hitter for the winning team. The current reigning champs of the 150-member Vermont House. Salt Walter’s got 83 Republicans in uniform, and everyone’s waiting to see what he does with them.

One thing’s for sure this winter. Outside the east entrance, you won’t be seeing any rust on the car parked in the spot reserved for House Speaker.

Speaker Michael ObUChOWSki’s rust bucket with the kazillion miles on it is now a thing of the past — as is the “Mrs. Murphy-conscious” Democratic political agenda that always put those who are last, first. While the Senate is getting new historically correct carpeting. The House is getting new, histor­ ically correct, pro-business Republican leadership.

It’s been 16 years since Stephen Morse of Newfane, the last Republican to wield the gavel, handed it over to Democrat Speaker Ralph Wright.

Get ready for a big change!

In a Seven Days’interview, we asked the success­ ful Dorset millionaire what kind of style he’ll be bringing to the ballpark everyday.

“I’m hoping it’s a consensus-building style,” answered Walt. “In the eight years that I’ve been in the House I’ve had to play hardball politics and I’ve had to learn to build consensus across the aisle. I can do both,” he told Seven Days.

Looking forward to the shower, too, we asked?

“I’m not sure about that,” replied Salt Walter. “I haven’t really seen that much of the inside of the office in my past eight years.”

At 49, Walter Freed will be a speaker and a president simultaneously. “President,” that is, of Apollo Industries in Wallingford, Vermont. That’s the company he and his older brother, Richard Freed, own and operate. Three years ago, the Freed boys sold off the family heating oil/propane busi­ ness to Ultramar. When Walt took it over from his dad, they had just five employees. When they sold it, they had 150 employees. But in the deal, they sold the rights to the name “Johnson’s Fuel Service” so they had to come up with a new one.

It was his brother Richard, said Walt, who came up with the “Apollo” name. “He was reading Greek mythology at the time,” said Freed.

The Freed brothers are still in the oil business.

According to Salt Walter, they own a few gas sta­ tions and convenience stores in southern Vermont and New Hampshire. They’ve got a hardware store in Bennington and the company has a software division, too.

“Before your President came here, I wouldn’t talk to Catholics. Now I do,” said the copper to the Yank. “Because of that man,” he said referring to Mr. Clinton, “my children won’t grow up with the hatred I did.”

The copper promised to stick close to Leahy in hopes of getting a close look at the American President. “If I stick with you,” he said, “I’ll get a glimpse of him. And it will be something to tell I my children and later my grandchildren.”

We hope Bill Clinton’s legacy will be seen in Irish faces for generations to come. He deserves the credit. He worked hard at it, said Leahy, who recalled many a late-night White House pow-wow with the opposing parties, where Clinton’s grasp of Irish history, as well as the current conflict, amazed the participants. St. Patrick told us how last week Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern remarked to him that throughout the peace process he “was able to pick up the phone and get the President of the United States on the line immediately.”

And let’s not forget to throw a little credit Pat

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Stranger Than Reality The Maltese television pro­ gram “Xarabank” decided to stage a mugging in Valletta’s busiest street, then interview witnesses about what they had seen to demonstrate the difference in people’s perception. After an actor grabbed the pretend-victim’s handbag, however, onlookers chased and beat him. When a member of the production staff tried to explain the mugger was an actor, the Times newspaper said bystanders began beating him because they thought he was an accomplice who was trying to invent a story to assist the thief.

How Low the Mighty Have Fallen Tomaz Humar, 31, Slovenia’s top mountain climber, made a climb thought to be impossible: a solo ascent of the south face of 26,795-foot Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas. After returning home, he broke both legs and sustained internal bleeding when he fell into a 10-foot hole in his house, which is under construction.

Anton Praprotnik, the doctor who operated on Humar for six hours, said full recovery “might take several months.”

Downsizing When 12 hefty men presented themselves as candidates to reign over Rio de Janeiro’s carnival fes­ tivities in February as King Momo, instead of being treated

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to the traditional all-you-can-eat pasta feast, they were served salad and diet soft drinks. Contest coordinator Luiz Moraes ex­ plained the city is opting for a “politically correct carnival” after protests from doctors following the recent early deaths of two of Brazil’s former King Momos. “We

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Human Cargo The Immigration and Naturalization Service reported smugglers of illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America have begun kidnapping each other’s

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don’t want to encourage people to get fatter,” he said, even though officials stopped short of elimi­ nating the contest’s 240-pound minimum weight requirement.

Heavy Metal Burglars broke the front win­ dow of a discount department store in Windber, Pennsylvania, entered the store and carried away the store’s 120-pound safe. Police said the safe was empty.

No Place Like Home Marvin Stewart, 76, walked into a bank in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and handed a teller a note demanding two $50 bills. After bank employees gave him the money, he said he would be wait­ ing outside in his car smoking a cigarette. Police, who found him where he said he would be, said Stewart was a lonely ex-convict

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customers and forcing their fami­ lies to pay for their release.

Typically, professional smugglers charge undocumented immi­ grants to sneak them across the border, then take them to drophouses to await further payment before sending them to their final destination. The INS said rival smugglers are snatching the immigrants and taking them to their own drophouses, then demanding payment be sent there. “The smuggling trade has become so lucrative,” INS spokesperson Sharon Gavin said, “that we’re fearful that this kind of activity will escalate.”

The Eyes Have It To celebrate Bangladesh’s first official cricket test match, Sri Lanka’s cricket board announced it was donating 20 corneas to restore the sight of Bangladeshis. “We

asked that the eyes be given to poor cricket lovers,” board official Anura Weerasinghe said, explaining the first two corneas were implanted before the match and the two recipients brought to Dhaka to watch Bangladesh play India.

• Lisa Reid, 24, who lost her sight 10 years ago after develop­ ing a brain tumor, banged her head against a coffee table in November while bending down to kiss her guide dog in her Auckland, New Zealand, home.

When she woke the next morn­ ing, she could see.

• Gladys Wyse, 43, was reaching for a bottle of eyedrops but grabbed a container of superglue instead and wound up sealing one of her eyes shut. “She just grabbed the wrong bottle,” Jefferson, New Jersey, police Sgt. Eric Wilsusen said, noting the woman was treated at the hospital and released without suffering any permanent damage.

Boo of the Week When Penn State University’s football team got off to its worst start in 36 years, the University Faculty Senate approved a resolu­ tion denouncing “negative cheer­ ing.” The anti-booing measure is read before every home football game.

Picture This Aubrey Rust filed a lawsuit against the Potency Recovery Clinic of Northridge, California,

charging it used his picture in a newspaper ad for impotence without his permission. He is also suing the Los Angeles Times, which ran the center’s ad offering impotency therapy, penile injec­ tion and treatment for premature ejaculation.

• Twins Nick and Rick Batres, 24, filed a lawsuit in Sonoma County, California, against a photographer and a magazine aimed at gay youth, which fea­ tured prominent pictures of the two hugging with a headline reading “Young and Gay.” The brothers insisted the photos were used without their consent, explaining they posed for them when they were 16 hoping to launch their modeling careers.

Man Bites Dog After police in Canton, Ohio, stopped Richard Nelson, 40, for driving a stolen car, he fled on foot, only to be seized by the arm by a police dog. To make the dog let go Nelson bit the dog’s nose.

The dog responded by clamping down hard enough that one of its teeth broke off in Nelson’s arm.

• When a dog belonging to Stephen Maul, 24, jumped out of his truck in San Francisco, Maul forced the 80-pound animal to the ground and bit its neck.

Charged with animal cruelty, Maul explained he was simply using “nature’s way” of dog train­ ing by mimicking the pack behav­ ior of male dominant dogs. ®

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THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: Too pickled to drive home? The Pickle

Barrel Nightclub in Killington has a simple solution that made Mondays “Morning Edition” on National Public Radio: free shuttle service within a 10-mile radius of the bar. The sober voice of newcaster Bob Edwards reported on the revel-ation — a seven-passenger van, dubbed the “Barrel Rider,” that ferries folks to and from the Killington club at no charge. Manager Chris Karr came up with the idea after state police stepped up sobriety checks in the area. How many people are actually dialing for designated drivers? “Oh, my God. I can’t even begin to count,” says Karr. “We have people who have our number on the speed dial of their cell phones.” It makes perfect sense: By climbing into the “Barrel” at the end of the night you manage to avoid ending up over one.

DISNEY LAND: Everybody has a funeral fantasy involving eloquent

friends and breast-beating ex-lovers, but in reality, most memorial services are disappointing. We$ Disney’s was an exception, by all accounts, that paid tribute to the artist in the spirit he lived and worked. The tribute endures in guerrilla art that is cropping up in store windows and on bulletin boards all over Burlington — includ­ ing the Cherry Street wall that he transformed into a giant, Impressionistic photograph. An artist named BebO is behind the pos­ tering project, and the color Xerox of nine portraits that show Disney in poses o f increasing joy. A lot of them have already disappeared, which is, of course, as it should be. “Wes was into public art without a big charge on ego or permanence,” Bebo explains. More important­ ly, “he knew that we were going to do this... and he loved it.”

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Then, the day before Thanksgiving, with Deana in town to fetch Ruth, everything was turned upside down.

Eating lunch at the Wagon Wheel, Deana said their plans were off, her aunt had suffered a ruptured spleen, so her folks were going to be in hospital, dealing.

Deana dragged a gravy-sogged fry across her plate.

“I’m free, though,” she said. “So we’ll just go on over to your place. Your Ma can handle it. You can introduce me around.”

“I don’t know,” Ruth said. “My family. My brothers. I don’t know. Why don’t we just go to a restaurant? O r go to the supermarket and get one of those rotisserie chick­

ens that we like so much?”

“Don’t be such a girl,” Deana said. “I don’t even like those greasy birds, anyway. You do. I want home cooking.

I want to meet your family.”

Ruth gave in. “But just don’t push it,” she said.

eana made a pumpkin pie to bring. Her first. It was f t l a beauty. It was made from scratch. Real pumpkin meat scooped from a real pumpkin. Homemade crust. Crust, it proved, was the bitch of pie making. But, when the pie was finally done, it looked terrific. It had

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They spun out on the frozen gravel and the pumpkin pie Deana had labored over fell off the back seat and onto the floor, squashing the Reddi Wip turkey. “Oh, damn it,” she said. “Look at that. Damn it all to hell. All that work.”

“It’s just a pie,” Ruth said, glad in a way for the turkey’s destruction, since it had never looked like much of anything anyway. “It’ll taste the same.”

“It’s ruined,” Deana said.

“It’ll be all right. Don’t you be nervous, now.” She leaned over and kissed Deana’s earlobe.

-^hen they got out to her house, Ruth opened the front door without knocking. Deana followed, carrying her pie. The place smelled of cigars and pipe tobacco and burning firewood. Ruth could tell by the cars out front that only a few older rela­ tives were there. Her brothers were still in the woods, and the cousins were yet to arrive. Ruth and Deana kicked their boots off and went into the kitchen, where Ruth’s Ma and Larry and Aunt Ruthie, Ruth’s namesake, were busying themselves. The linoleum shined and smelled of pine cleaner and was slippery under Ruth’s socks. Larry was smoking his fancy pipe, trying to look sage, though he only looked like a fool.

The windows were sweating from the heat of all the vegetables and meats boiling and frying and baking.

Ruth’s Ma was bent over the open oven poking at the browning turkey. Uncle Ronnie strolled past with a drink, and winked at Deana as he pretended to kick Ma into the oven. Aunt Ruthie chuckled, cat-eye glasses jiggling on the end of their chain.

Larry pretended he was too dignified to laugh as he concocted, and attempted to perfect, his secret punch. He had torn the labels off all the juice and soda and liquor bottles, to keep the ingredients from being identified..

“I’m adding cimonin this year,” he said, smirking, eyeing Deana. She had buttoned her blouse wrong after making out, and her skin was showing a bit where the white cot­ ton was smudged with lipstick.

“That’s cinnamon,” Deana said. “Not cimonin.”

“Come again?’” Larry said.

“Here, Ma,” Ruth said, interrupting, taking the pie from Deana and handing it to her mother.

“Put it on the counter,” Ma said, checking the turkey’s temperature.

“Deana made it,” Ruth said. “From scratch. Pretend the whipped cream is supposed to look like a turkey — it did, before it slid off the seat.”

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Ruth worked Thanksgiving morning at the Murder Mart, a mini-mart in town where, seven years before, the wife of the owner, who was messing around with one of his young employees, came in and shot a cashier. Turned out she’d shot the wrong cashier, but the name had stuck.

Ruth punched out at 11:30 and told Henry, the new owner, to have a good Turkey Day, and went outside and sat on the curb waiting on the rumble of Deanas Barracuda. The cement was cold and made her butt itch through her corduroy skirt. The snow melted on the pavement, but stuck to the brown grass and bare trees.

Ruth chewed the corners of her bobbed hair, thinking she might like to get it cut even shorter, like Deanas.

Dinner wasn’t until 2 o’clock. Four of Ruth’s five brothers, Hal, Tom, John and Jimmy, would, thankfully, be out chasing deer around in the fresh snow until about two seconds before dinner. They got so wound up over new snow during hunting season they nearly pissed them­ selves.

This year was Jimmy’s first time out with his own rifle. He was twelve and had not slept at all the night before. Ruth had wanted to hunt when she was a young girl, liked the idea of it, providing for yourself, but her brothers hadn’t allowed her to go along with them. It was for men. T hat’s how some things were. You had to live with it. “Can’t you be normal at all?” they’d said. They were threatened by her; she was a crack shot. She’d never taken up hunting on her own, and at times had regretted it.

Larry, Ruth’s middle brother, would be at home, abstaining from the blood sport. Too dangerous. “Every year some granddad shoots his grandkid from out of a pine tree, thinking he’s a porc’pine,” he always said.

Though it was commonly known that Larry simply didn’t have the DNA for deer hunting and preferred watching the parades on the TV and making his annual punch, the ingredients of which were supposed to be a secret, though everyone knew it consisted of cranberry juice, ginger ale, wine, vodka and orange slices.

Ruth heard the Barracuda coming and got up, snuff­ ing out her cigarette and brushing snow from her jean jacket and cords.

She and Deana had a little time, so they drove down to the boat launch at the lake. Ruth could hear the Canada geese out at the edge of the lake, where the wind and waves kept breaking up the forming ice. The Barracuda was cold, its exhaust leaked and Deana couldn’t keep it idling without the windows down half way. They made out to keep each other warm, Deana telling Ruth not to be nervous about dinner. She did her best to calm Ruth, with an icy fingertip placed precisely.

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Uncle Ronnie was over at the fireplace, smoking a thin brown cigar and trying to squint like Clint Eastwood. He stood in one red sock and one blue sock.

He was bowed half over into the fire, stabbing the logs with the iron poker, sparks shooting out and flying all over like crazy, bright-orange bees. He turned around, spilling beer out of his red plastic cup. His face was flushed.

J ; “Uncle Ronnie, this here is Deana,” Ruth said.

He nodded, gave a gesture that said if he didn’t have this serious job over here at the fire he might come over there to greet her right.

Deana said, “Hey, there. M anning the fire?” She squeezed Ruth’s hand. Ruth squeezed back, her palms soft and wet.

Aunt Clarissa was on the love seat and couldn’t get up without help. She would eat right there, with her playing cards, on a TV tray. She’d brought along her third hus­ band, Ray. His toupee looked shiny purple in the fire­ light.

“How are you, little Ruth?” he said.

“Not too bad. I worked this morning. This here is Deana.”

Ruth didn’t care either way about Ray not having a right arm, but it made it awkward when Deana went to shake his hand. “Hi, Ray,” Deana said, offering her other hand when she saw he was missing one. “W hat happened to your arm?”

“War wound,” he said.

Ronnie said, “Ain’t she a sweetheart? He was born without an arm. And missing an eye, too, among other things. Can you tell which one of his eyes is glass?”

“Cut that out,” Aunt Clarissa said.

Deana leaned in close to Ray and examined him.

“The left one,” she said. “The left one’s fake. It doesn’t look real at all. But it’s nice, though. Beautiful.”

Aunt Clarissa shook her head. She stretched her fat neck out o f her sweater, her manner of leaning in close, and played with the crucifix hanging from her gold chain.

She loved Jesus almost as much as a paper plate full of mashed potatoes. She picked at her teeth with a broken fingernail, working at a strand of gray meat she’d brought in a sandwich bag to hold her over until dinner.TIf she’s a friend of Ruth’s, I’m sure she’s a sweetheart,” she said, referring to Deana. “You two work together?”

“I think we work together,” Deana said.

Aunt Clarissa looked confused.

“She’s kidding,” Ruth said. “We don’t work together.”

“It probably wouldn’t be a good idea anyway,” Deana said. “If we’re going to move in with each other. You don’t want to see too much of a person, even if you love them.”

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“Does your mother know?”

“It’s not concrete. We were thinking about getting an apart­ ment.”

“Roomies, huh?” Ray said.

“Careful, rooming can ruin a friendship.”

Ray’s glass eye was staring at Ruth, and she had the idea it saw things all on its own.

Larry came out and sat Indian-style on the braided rug, a foot away from the TV, watch­ ing the parade.

“Well, we’re going outside,” Ruth said.

They sat on the steps. Deana told Ruth her family seemed like they were all right, real nice, and Ruth told her she was real nice to say so. Deana took her hand.

“I’m not seeing them anyway, I’m seeing you.”

“Just don’t push it too much,” Ruth said. Deana put her hand under Ruth’s dress, on her thigh, and said, “I got a bot­ tle of wine in the car. Let’s go for a quick ride.”

-K.hen they drove back into the yard, there were cars parked all over the lawn, the cousins were there. But Ruth’s brothers’ Power Ram was nowhere in sight. The bottle of wine and their time parked at the end of the road had left Ruth and Deana glow­ ing, and it was a trick to navigate the yard full of cars without ' falling down.

“We’ll just start without them,” Ruth’s Ma squawked at the head of the table, about the brothers not showing. “They can fight over whatever is left, serve them right.”

“Amen,” Aunt Clarissa shout­ ed from the love seat, creamed corn dribbling down her chin.

The house was packed with aunts and uncles and cousins.

The little cousins ate at card tables in the kitchen, and sat on folding metal chairs Uncle Floyd had brought from the Valley School gym, where he was recre­ ation director. They drank grape Kool-Aid in wine glasses.

All the uncles were looking dapper, sporting clip-on ties.

Uncle Stu and Ray were arguing over who was going to win the football game. Aunt Clarissa was trying to rise, she needed the bathroom and was yelling for the young ones to help her; they came out, faces turkey-skin oily and lips stained grape with KoolAid. They surrounded her like a pack of hounds, tugging her up and balancing her down the hall­ way.

“Where you from, Deana?”

Ronnie asked, leaning over his plate, elbows on the table.

“Outside Malone,” she said.

“T hat’s nice out there.”

“Not really. It’s a wasteland.”

“Where abouts out there? I used to be at the Air Force base.”

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“You know that pink house out in the field behind the bill­ board, off the road a bit?”

“I believe so.”

“Well, that’s where I live, for now anyway.”

“That’s right, you’re moving.

You and Little Ruth are moving in together.”

“What’s this?” Ruth’s Ma asked.

“Ruth and I are going to find a place, live together,” Deana said, and grinned at Ray, raised her wine glass, nudging Ruth’s hip.

“Just remember what I said about friends being roommates,” Ronnie said.

“We’re more than friends,” she said.

“How’s that?” said Ruth’s mother.

“We’re more like sisters,” Ruth said.

Ruth’s Ma glanced at her and said, “First I’ve heard of this.

Moving out.”

“We just decided,” Ruth explained. “It’s not concrete yet.”

“Pretty much it is, though,” Deana said. “Pretty much.”

“I don’t see why. You have everything you need right here,” Ma said. “You know I’ll provide for you.”

“I can provide things, too,” Deana said.

“I’m sure you can,” Ma said.

“I’m sure you’re a good friend.

Ruth has always had such close girlfriends. But leaving home.

You’re only 17.”

“That’s right,” Aunt Ruthie said.

“You don’t make much at the mini-mart, either. H ow ...”

“Let it be for now,” Ronnie said, and winked at Ruth.

Ruth whispered to Deana, “Cut it out.” But Deana rubbed her hand where it shouldn’t have been and told Ruth to loosen up and have some more wine, which Ruth did.

Everyone began reaching over each other for second helpings, passing food and gas, and chew­ ing and swigging and swallow­ ing, trying to hurry up before the Dallas game came on, so they could get a seat on the couch or a chair, and before there wasn’t any food left, throwing questions at Deana.

Aunt Ruthie got her bridge work caught on a chunk of coal the little cousins had planted in a black olive as a joke. She screamed, but no one cared much.

Deana kept her hand on Ruth’s leg, her fingertips getting fresh, pressing. It was all very wrong, Ruth thought, hazy from the wine, but, finally, she was thankful Deana was there, it being Thanksgiving. Deana looked good in candle and fire­ light. Ruth said, “I think I’d like to get my hair cut short like yours.”

Aunt Ruthie said Deana’s hair looked like a boy’s.

“It’s striking,” Ronnie said. “I bet you break the boys’ hearts.”

He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

Ray had taken his eye out and placed it on his pie dish and now he couldn’t find it. “Has anyone seen my eye?” he kept saying.

Ruth asked her older cousin, Luke, how things were going.

Ruth always had liked and wor­ ried about Luke. He’d been the first person to get her high. He was a quiet one, with wild red hair that looked like cotton candy.

He said things were going all right. Said he was working at the Mobil station.

Deana asked, “How’s working at the Mobil station?”

It wasn’t too dammed great, but it beat what he was doing last year.

Deana asked what was he doing last year.

“Time,” he said.

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But Ruth never did ask, because Ray fell over out of his wicker chair reaching for his eye.

Cranberry juice flew, splattering Mom’s new paper tablecloth with a turkey pattern on one side and reindeer on the other. Deana was crying, she was laughing so hard, and they were all telling Ray he better get that eye off the wood floor before one o f the dogs gob­ bled it, when they heard the brothers roar up between all the cars parked out on the lawn, horn honking like the geese back at the lake.

Everyone tossed down their napkins and headed out, pushing and shoving. Ruth’s brothers were hooting and baying as they piled out of the Ram, beer cans falling out onto the snow.

Outside the boys were cir­ cling around the back of the Ram’s tailgate. Snow fell gently and clung to their beards and moustaches. A cloud was above their heads from all their breath in the cold, wet air.

Everybody but Ma and Aunt Clarissa had run out in the yard in their socks, and were jigging and stepping from foot to foot.

Ma and Aunt Clarissa looked out from the picture window, swip­ ing circles in the fogged glass.

“You get one?” Ruth asked.

Deana was hugging her around the waist and Ruth was hugging her back. Ruth tried not to show her excitement at the dead deer.

She didn t want to give her brothers the satisfaction.

Her brothers spat tobacco on the snow, scratched their beards.

Bits and pieces of them blazed orange: gloves, hats, mittens,

socks pulled over red-and-black wool.

“Jimmy got one. Little Jimmy,” Hal said. “Tell them, Jimmy.”

Jimmy nearly ran out of breath, he told his story so fast, telling them over and over how he’d shot it when it was jumping over a barbed-wire fence. Turned around quick and shot it from Dad’s old tree stand, in the old orchard. Shot it with Dad’s old bolt-action .30-.30. Shot it in the front leg. Shot it in the jaw, then in the rump and finally in the back bone. He was lucky, he only had the four bullets.

Hal knocked Jimmy’s hat off his head. Then Ruth’s brothers punched him and knocked him to the ground and started white­ washing him and tugging him between the four of them like a piece of meat between hungry dogs. They slapped his rosy cheeks. They looked at the deer in the back of the truck, smiling and yukking, marveling over its carcass.

“Not too bad, Jimmy,” Hal said, and punched him in the arm. “Not too bad.”

“It looks like a dog,” Deana said. “It’s no bigger than a dog.”

She pointed at it, as if to show them where to look. She was hopping from foot to foot on the cold ground. “Look at that little thing! You should be ashamed.

Ruth! Look at it. If that was a fish you’d throw it back! And it’s only got one tiny antler.”

“It’s three inches long,” Jimmy croaked, “It’s legal.” He said it quietly without looking to see who was ridiculing him.

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She didn’t want the boys to hate her from the start. Not her.

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“It is small,” Hal said. deer to the ground. It was cut up “Smallest buck I’ve ever the middle, bleeding and steam­ seen,” Larry said. “Poor thing.” ing and giving off a stench like “It’s no trophy, Jimmy,” John seaweed. It looked like road kill. said and cupped a cigarette to Legs all twisted, tongue hanging light it. out, eyes milky, fur matted and “Why don’t you drag it over going every which way. Ruth’s brothers looked down at it, fixing to the tree and string it up before their greasy baseball caps and flu­ a cat drags it off?” Tom said, punching Jimmy. They started orescent orange toques, scratch­ ing their heads.

They spat on the ground around it.

They looked up at all the faces and then at the deer.

Ruths relatives t v t& Z . / t all stood around, quiet, cold, arms folded to hold in warmth. Some held f iv e , Styrofoam cups of beer, or hunks of turkey in their hands. jt'C A 'W v U i* “We can see it isn’t all too big,” Hal said, looking down at it and toeing it with his boot. “But it’s his first buck and ribbing him about how small the it’ll taste good just the same.” deer was, laughing and cater­ “It’s legal. Its spike is over wauling. Dog killer, they called three inches,” Jimmy said again. him. Killer of dogs. They were “That’s right,” John said, yelling at him for killing a little pulling at ice bits caught in his skipper that had lost its mama, eyelashes. giving him all that Bambi stuff, “It’s a good deer,” they were and when they were tired out, saying. winded, puffs of breath coming “It is kind of small though, I out of mouths and noses, steam guess,” Jimmy said, looking at it, rising from their heads, they all wiping at snot on his cheek with looked up at Deana hugging the back of a frozen red mitten.

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he kid and I were getting upstairs, like we were supposed to. Like Ray said. I was in some little \ dude named Robbie’s room, according to the mini California license plate on the door. I was trying to yank an expensive-looking attachment off the back of a computer.

I just about had the thing disconnected when I heard someone coming up the basement stairs. Ray should’ve been in the den, not the basement, so I paused, looked toward the bluish light seeping up the second-floor stairs.

I waited a couple seconds, waited for another sound.

Jesse crossed the doorway and surprised me, even though I shouldn’t have been. I mean, I knew he was upstairs. That was the plan. He stopped when he saw me standing there, gave me one o f his “t’hell’s your problem?” looks.

“You hear that?” I whispered.

“You mean this?” He shook the trash bag in his hand and smiled like some punk kid out trick-or-treating. The bag jingled like he’d snagged mostly jewelry so far.

“Smarten up,” I said, and turned back to the computer.

“Don’t bug on me, dude,” Jesse responded, a little too loud, and headed down the hall to the girl’s room.

I was about to tell him to keep his damn voice down when I heard something else. Jesse must’ve heard it, too, because his footsteps stopped on the creaky floorboards.

We listened as Ray said something at the bottom o f the stairs.

Jesse peered in at me again, that crooked-tooth grin pasted on his face. I motioned for him to look down the stairs. Just as he leaned over the railing, Ray said some­ thing else.

Jesse fought back a laugh. I waved him into the room.

“W hat’d he say?”

“He’s singing frickin’... Christmas carols.”

A tingle crept up the back of my neck. I’d had a strange feeling about this job from the start, but now things were definitely getting weird. I listened for a couple more seconds. Sure enough, Ray was singing “Oh, Christmas Tree.” He must’ve been tone-deaf, though, because his singing voice didn’t sound that different from when he spoke. Raspy, like he smoked too many cigars.

Jesse laughed again — that cartoon-chipmunk laugh.

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Back at the mall, I’d gotten a kick out of it. Right then I didn’t think it was funny. The kid was too relaxed, like he didn’t fully grasp the consequences — like, to him, there were no consequences. When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose. It’s a mistake to get involved with people like that. A big mistake. Ray knew it, which was why he’d said that if Jesse came along, he’d be my responsibility.

What was I thinking?

I’d met Jesse at the mall about a month earlier. I was hanging out one day when he showed up. Nobody knew who he was, but he didn’t seem too shy. You could tell from his clothes — a ratty New England Patriots jacket and camouflage cargo pants — and his greasy long hair that he didn’t have anything better to do than hang out with us, so he fit in just fine. Everybody liked him pretty much right away. He was hyper enough to drive you nuts, but he could be damn funny sometimes.

The better I got to know him, though, the more obvi­ ous it became how totally lost he was. I mean, almost any­ thing I asked him that didn’t have to do with the exact present moment — who was President, where tourists came from, why some people pay $2.50 for a cup of coffee — he’d shrug, look down and mutter, “T ’hell’s that have to do with anything?” I figured he was a runaway, most likely.

I asked him a couple times, those first couple days, where he was from, but he always managed not to tell me.

Instead he’d start talking about some uncle down in Florida and how, if he could get the cash together, he’d go stay with him. Problem was, at 16, Jesse could barely read the words off a pack of smokes. Plus he had other problems, you could just tell. He said he was living in a shelter, but I sus­ pected most nights he slept wherever he stopped spinning.

He wasn’t the only runaway I knew, but I felt sorrier for him than for most, I’m not sure why. Sure, he talked a big game about his outlaw life, but he had a sweet side he’d show every now and then — open a door for an old lady, tell a guy he dropped his glove, wave at some baby.

If I’d had any cash, I might’ve bought him a bus ticket myself. But I didn’t. So instead we spent most of our time trying to figure out how we could get our hands on some.

Anyway, that’s exactly what we were doing the day we met Ray. I knew who Ray was, since the old guy pushed a

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broom or dragged a trash can past us just about every day.

But that particular day, he stopped and sat down on our bench. W hat made it so weird was that it was the day after Thanksgiving, busiest shopping day of the year.

Busiest day for mall janitors, too. But Ray didn’t seem to care that the trash receptacles were overflowing and the food court looked like a landfill, minus the seagulls. Every once in a while, another janitor would cruise by and grumble something to Ray about break time being over, but he ignored them and listened patiently as Jesse ram­ bled on about how great it’d be to get to Florida for Christmas.

Eventually, a short, skinny, balding guy in a dark suit came over and stood in front of Ray. “I hate to break this to you,” he said in a snippy voice, his bald head shining as brightly as his pointy black shoes. “But if you’ve got time to lean, you’ve got time to clean.” The guy tapped one foot, put his hands on his hips — that whole trip.

Ray eyed him silently for a few seconds, then he exploded with laughter — I mean, he really laughed.

With his big, square head tilted back and his gut jiggling under his jumpsuit, I was afraid some yuppie might mis­ take him for Santa Claus and set a kid on his knee.

Shiny Man just stood there, his face pink as a wad of bubblegum. Pretty soon Jesse started cracking up, too.

A few minutes later, Jesse, Ray and I had all been kicked out of the mall. It was a pretty cold night, and I wasn’t too psyched about getting booted, so Ray bought us a cup of coffee at the diner around the corner.

T hat’s where we set up the job. We. I should say Ray. He said he’d had a hunch we were the kind of guys who’d be up for something like that. Said he’d overheard us talk­ ing about similar... opportunities. Didn’t think that was too smart of us, talking about it out in the open. Called us rookies.

Jesse gave him some line about stealing cars in New Hampshire, but anyone could tell that was bullshit. I told him the truth: probation a couple of years back for shoplifting at that other mall across town. Not exactly the major leagues. Those were Ray’s words. But he said he’d work with us anyway.

there he was, smiling a dreamy tion hanging limply in his hand l i e didn’t say he’d been smile into the fridge, his cap slid -^ ‘ something rougMy^ngeli — I inside the house he had in back on his head. Jesse and I shaped made from sliced paper/ \ mind for us, but he defi­ headed toward him. towel tubes and aluminum foil. nitely talked like he knew the “That’s it,” I said, stepping .“I was looking for that.” layout. Said the locks on the into the kitchen. “We’ve got Ray shielded the star from basement windows were real old, everything upstairs. Jewelry, some Jesse and walked around to the we could get in that way. As soon computer thing, probably even other side of the tree. “Too bad. as we got to the house, I could the deed to the place...

It’s my turn this year.” tell he’d been on the other side of “Well, you can leave that Jesse followed and tried to those windows before: the way with me,” Ray said, opening a jar snag the star as Ray reached for he moved through the hallways of jelly at a small table next to a the top of the tree.

— smoothly, confidently, even in window on the driveway side of “Beat it,” Ray grumbled, the dark before our eyes adjusted. the house. throwing Jesse a stiff elbow.

But this thing with the “Leave it with you?” I leaned Stumbling back, Jesse took a singing... It was tweaked. So as against the counter and watched swipe at the star but missed. soon as I’d stuffed that computer him. “W hat’s...?”

Instead, he knocked another attachment in my bag, I headed “Would you see if there’s any ornament off the tree, one of downstairs. bread in those cupboards?” he those basic glass decorations As I took the last few stairs, I about the size of an orange, but a interrupted. caught sight of Ray in the living “Cut the shit, Ray.” hell of a lot noisier when they room. He was hanging orna­ “You will not speak that way smash open on a hardwood floor. ments on a Christmas tree to the in my house,” he snapped, whip­ All three of us froze at the right of the fireplace, humming ping his head toward, me. sound. I stared at Ray, who was the tune of a guy who maybe Jesse sat down at the table settling back on his feet after owned a Victorian in the Hill looking like he’d just been scold­ planting the star on the treetop.

Section. Right. The stairs ed. * None of us said anything for squeaked under my next step, “It’s true,” Ray said to him what seemed like an hour as we and he turned. more softly. “I grew up in this waited to see if anyone — a “W hat the hell did very house. O f that come from?” I said course, it’s changed a in a loud whisper, point­ b it...” He pointed at 'J hnJ t r h r fe ing at the tree. the refrigerator. “We Ray held a finger to had our fridge his lips and went back to against the other decorating. f eel i rf t h h . lout wall.” He stared at J Jesse came down the the sliver of space stairs a second later, between the curtains clomping past like he blocking a view of ro>*-x was afraid he might be the driveway. “But late for school. the smell of the “T ’hell?” he said place... it’s almost when he spotted Ray. CrC * \0 w the same. I noticed it -A‘I found it in the the moment we basement.” Ray batted a walked in.” couple of branches. “It’s “We didn’t walk d e f i c i t e ft fake, but in the dark you in, Ray,” I said. “We can’t tell.” broke in. Remember?

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“Well, not this exact table,” was really frickin’ stupid,” I said Ray walked over and reached Ray said, “b u t...” when my heartbeat had slowed into the box* but when he pulled “That’s great, Ray,” I inter­ enough so I could speak. “Really, his arm out, I was standing close rupted. “Quite a coincidence. frickin’. ..” enough to swipe the ornament We’re hitting a house you used to He wiped his hands on his from him. “Have you lost your live in. One for the record books. pants and walked past me, leav­ mind?” I hissed.

Were never going to forget this ing his open gym bag under the He took a couple steps back job!” tree. and stared me down. “Did you “This is not just some job,” I grabbed Jesse by the jacket get everything in the kid’s he said with an edge in his voice. sleeve on his way to the coffee room?” he asked, nodding at the “R ay...” table for another ornament. “Get bag in my hand.

“Tonight!” He knocked on the bag,” I said.

I only looked down for a sec­ the table. Then he gazed back “B u t...” He turned to the ond, but it was enough time for toward the Christmas tree. “I’m half-decorated tree.

Ray to lunge forward and grab going to sleep here. And I’m I gave him a push. “N o w ” the ornament back. going to wake up in this house Ray went into the kitchen, “I never get to hang the star,” on Christmas morning.” and no sooner had Jesse retrieved he muttered, cradling the decora­ Jesse shot out of his chair and the bag from under the tree than tion like a bird protecting food. started pacing, bouncing on the we saw the refrigerator light illu­ “You have the star?” Jesse balls of his feet exactly like Ray minate Ray’s ruddy, weathered said, coming up behind him with face. Stupid, stupid, stupid. “No an obviously homemade decora­ lights” was Ray’s biggest rule. Yet Continued on page 18a

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Jesse looked toward Ray, but I caught his eye instead. “No cookies,” I said. “Stick to the plan.”

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Jesse bounced across the kitchen and sat back down at the table.

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T hat’s 15 years, boys. Turned 30 and 40 in the joint. Hell, you probably can’t imagine turning 30, period.” He flipped his chin in the direction of the street.

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“There doesn’t have to be a next time,” I said. “Now finish your sandwich and let’s — “ “I don’t get it,” Jesse cut me off, sounding panicked, like he might start bawling. “So why’d you bring us here, Ray? Huh? Why are you messing with us?

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Everyone’s gone — Ma, the old man.” He turned back to the curtains. “Where’d they go?”* Jesse looked at me.

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be the ‘next time, ” Ray said, tilt­ ing his head back to stare at the ceiling. “I’m all through with that. Tonight I’m going straight to my room.” He chuckled from deep inside his chest. “Home free.”

As Ray kept staring at the ceiling, not saying anything, Jesse started to sob. “I’m scared,” he said, trying to keep his voice down.

“There’s nothing to be scared of,” Ray answered in a gentle tone I’d never heard before, like he was trying to put the kid to sleep. “You haven’t done any­ thing wrong. And you aren’t . going to.”

He finally unglued his eyes from the ceiling and looked at me. “Leave everything here,” he said in that firm tone I remem­ bered from back at the diner. He motioned to his gym bag and the bags Jesse and I’d set on the floor. Then he reached into his shirt pocket and tossed a wad of bills onto the table. “Split this 50-30.” He pushed the money toward Jesse.

Jesse looked back at me, and I motioned for him to take it.

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Somewhere out above the lake, the moon shone high and bright. The cars and buildings seemed to gleam with a white­ ness made starker by the angu­ lar shadows. The parking lot to this development has a huge speed bump; I resent it, but it works — we eased through at 5 mph.

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“The deadline for submis­ sions was December. This was in September. I was just going to turn it into a short story, but the idea of making it a novel for young readers appealed to me,” she continues. So did, naturally, the prospect of winning a prize and being published. W ith these inducements, Murphy says, the book “came really fast.”

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Her characters come to her spontaneously, too, beginning with the narrator. Dialogue takes a little more thought, she notes.

“I just let the narrator guide me through the story, the same way the narrator guides the reader through.”

Murphy came to writing rel­ atively recently. Born and raised near Syracuse, New York, her father was a middle- and highschool English teacher, so there were a lot of books around the house — but Murphy didn’t read many of them, she admits.

She became a voracious reader, though, after majoring in English at Lemoyne College in Syracuse, traveling a bit and set­ tling into a marriage. She started writing after the birth of Liam, now 8. Murphy was 29.

She’s finished a second book, Black Angels, that deals with seg­ regation in a small Georgia town in 1961; it is due out next March. Seemingly a departure from Night Flying, Black Angels actually has many themes in common with the first book: a young girl coming of age, other­ worldly forces, the power of faith and ideas.

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B y J ohn H agman his is a story about Christmas dinner — in particu­ lar, the stuffing. But first, it is a siory about the road, and breakfast.

My father Jack always had a penchant for unusual cars. One of my very first memories is our ’56 Humber sedan — an obscure British make — and a ’59 International Harvester, the first sport-utility vehicle.

These were our family cars at the time I was born. By the mid-’60s, when we started our Christmas trips to Florida from our New Jersey home, my dad was in his Volkswagen period. He and my mom had purchased a

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The bus had all the options that mattered to a kid — extra windows and a cloth “Safari” sunroof that extended nearly the full length of the passenger compartment.

With my parents, myself and my two brothers and two sisters to carry, it was one of few vehicles big enough to seat us all.

The first time we departed New Jersey for our Florida road trip — to Grampa Roy’s house for Christmas — was around dawn in mid-December 1966. By lunch time in Pennsylvania, my kid sister and I — the youngest ones — were already fighting out of sheer boredom. We enter­ tained ourselves by performing puppet shows out of the giant sunroof for other motorists. These generally fol­ lowed the most basic Punch-and-Judy scripts, as dialogue was impossible at 60 miles per hour.

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We had a brown bear and a cowboy puppet, and these two would endlessly bash each other over the head with various objects. There was a lot of chas­ ing, and the occasional “acciden­ tal” loss of one of our “weapons” to the strong slip stream. It was fortunate for us that our father failed to notice a can of Coke exploding on the grill of a giant 18-wheeler behind us. Dad would occasionally interrupt a particularly violent fight or pup­ pet show by warning that he would run the car into a wall if we didn’t stop this instant. W hat he never really made clear was whether this would be an acci­ dent or deliberate.

By the third day we had lost the head of the cowboy puppet, and the novelty of a road trip had worn into suffocating ennui.

There isn’t too much to look at on the drive down Florida on I95, even today, except tract hous­ ing and billboards. My siblings and I devoted much of the last day to devising ways to drive my father crazy. He had forbidden us to mention the words “Dairy

visionary in his own twisted culi­ nary way. In addition to hun­ dreds of stored plastic vegetable bags — still a novelty then — his kitchen stocked dozens of bizarre food supplements.

When I sat down at the table that first morning, the stricken look on my siblings’ faces said it all. A strange and unfamiliar odor permeated the air, more like dinner than breakfast. Grampa Roy had served up his own ver­ sion of “oatmeal.” In our house this food had been considered tolerable if doused with lots of butter and Log Cabin syrup. But my grandfather’s recipe included generous helpings of stale Kretchmer wheat germ, as well as pureed vegetables from last night’s dinner.

All these ingredients gave the oatmeal a gray-brown color and a gritty appearance that brought to mind some sort of prison-camp gruel. My grandfather’s guiding principle seemed to be that any­ thing kids hated must be good for them. I doused the oatmeal with as much sugar and butter as I could get away with and took a tentative bite. The vile taste of that oatmeal is still vivid today.

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There was much singing and jubilation when we finally arrived in Bradenton, a suburb of Tampa, where my recently wid­ owed grandfather had retired to a neighborhood of anonymous ticky-tacky ranch homes.

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he next morning, I thought I’d arrived in paradise. The air was already warm by 7 a.m., and the backyard was filled with citrus trees and tomato plants heavy with fruit just before Christmas. The spell was broken by Grampa Roy calling us to breakfast, which turned out to be his special health food. I had noted on our arrival that the house had an indescribable old people’s smell, an amalgam of lineaments and vitamins and unfamiliar spices. Health food had not yet reached the American mainstream, but in his retirement my grandfather was

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My eyes began to water as I looked at my father in desperate hope that he’d help us, but he had somehow choked down half a small bowl already. My mother was no help, either; having fin­ ished off her helping with gusto, she was now working on some grapefruit sections. I tried com­ bining the grapefruit with each bit of oatmeal. But to my kid’s palate, grapefruit tasted a lot like aspirin and only made the effect worse.

Meanwhile, my grandfather was expounding on how my brothers and I would surely suc­ cumb to diabetes and die an early death, like his brother, who he claimed was killed by soda pop. Years later, I found out it was contaminated water, not the sugar in the' soda, that did him in. But my grandfather never let little things like that get in the way of a story with a good moral. He suffered from diabetes himself, but had no problem lec­ turing you on nutrition over a big dish of ice cream, or a dry martini.

Over the next few days, the morning culinary assaults escalat­ ed. Particularly distasteful was the addition of pearl onions — companions to the previous nights peas — to the hated oat­ meal a couple of days before Christmas. My brother George had resorted to numbing his taste buds with ice water.

Grampa Roy launched into a tirade about washing down your food, and how all that cold would cause cramping, or even block up his intestines — “Why, that happened to my friend George Allen, and he almost died!”

My brother looked up at my dad with a glare of silent, barely contained rage. Just the day before he had been made to spend most of the morning at the dining room table in a stand­ off created by his outright refusal to finish that days allotment of Hells Porridge.

But my dad, usually outspo­ ken to the point of pushy, was a softy when it came to standing up to his old man, and that morning seemed no exception.

He just continued reading the paper and munching grapefruit as George choked back his mouthful. But to Dads credit, he distracted my grandfather a few minutes later with a sudden trip to the backyard, ostensibly to look at some blight on the orange trees. We quickly dis­ posed of the oatmeal, including my dad’s portion, in the big avo­ cado plant near the table — a technique my bgothef: George * and I had refined with chicken liver back in New Jersey. We left just enough in our bowls to keep the crime from being obvious. I noticed later that the tree was looking pale and dropping leaves, certainly not a testament to the restorative properties of vegetable oatmeal.

he next day, our first Florida Christmas Eve dawned clear and warm. I awoke dreading the cloying fumes of Grampa’s breakfast tor­ ture. But instead the house was filled with the most wonderful smell. I followed it to the kitchen, where I found my grandfather busily frying up great heaps of bacon and sausage. It

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turned out this was for his spe­ cial turkey stuffing, and not des­ tined to become our breakfast.

My sister and I were allowed our usual fare of Pop Tarts in place of gruel, as Grampa Roy was already too involved with the bird to make breakfast. As it cooked through the day, that turkey had a powerful and spicy aroma that finally overwhelmed the stale, air-conditioned air and induced a holiday atmosphere in this strange, sub-tropical Christmas.

Dinner was the highlight of the day. It included the usual cornucopia of turkey, squash and yams, mashed potatoes and all the rest. But it was the first taste of that stuffing I will always recall. My mom, being a fan of Peg Brackens I Hate to Cook Book, had raised us on Pepperidge Farm stuffing straight from the bag, with a few raisins thrown in.

But Grampa Roy’s stuffing was loaded with pork sausage, bacon, raisins and walnuts — the antithesis of all the foods he con­ stantly touted as healthy. When I asked him about this contradic­ tion right at the table, my father shot me one of his inimitable raised eyebrows that combined threat and horror.

But Grampa, mellow after some fine Puerto Rican rum with which he’d spiked the eggnog, just smiled. He muttered a bit under his breath, then said, “Well it’s Christmas, it won’t kill you once in a while to live it up a little.” i For many years after college I was a vegetarian. I have never really reacquired the taste for beef and pork. But once a year during the holidays, I still eat massive quantities of Grampa Roy’s stuffing. Quite a few family friends have adopted the recipe over the years, and it is Grampa’s greatest legacy. The recipe for his special oatmeal, on the other hand, died with him. Although it’s possible that, at some tony health-food restaurant in, say, Boulder, repentant yuppies are pretending to enjoy bowls of organic carrot oatmeal.

This holiday season, I say leave unclipped the tofu-andwild-rice stuffing recipes in The New York Times Magazine, and live it up a little. Merry Christmas! ®

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B y G eorge T habault he trustees of Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library were making their report to the town fathers and they were excit­ ed — overjoyed, in fact — to report that circulation at the Library was down 3 percent. The year was 1938, the Depression had been taking a toll on Vermont’s economy, and the declining number of books being taken out of the library told administrators that people were finally going back to work and had less time for reading. It was welcome news.

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(There are eight copies of the last Potter tome, Goblets o f Fire, and they’re still going out the door at a brisk pace.)

The Fletcher Free staff is directed by the trio of Amber Collins, Anita Danigelis and Robert Resnik. Danigelis attrib­ uted the past year’s rise in circu­ lation to a number of factors, including year-round Sunday hours, a vigorous youth out­ reach effort and a relatively new, easy way to renew a book — by telephone. “People can call in to the circulation desk, and with our automated system we can

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The computer tracking sys­ tem does help shed light on weak points in the library’s col­ lection. “One of the areas that needs improvement is adult non-fiction,” reports Danigelis.

“We know the videos are popu­ lar, and we are going to keep that section up, but space could be a factor.” Danigelis notes that the videos are stored behind the circulation desk, and “it’s getting to be a crunch back there.”

The library spends about $150,000 a year on new books, videos, CDs, cassettes and other circulating materials, with about $90,000 of that being generated by a special one-half-cent prop­ erty tax passed by voters five years ago. “When we compare ourselves with public libraries in communities of similar size around the country, the average for new purchases is in the $200,000-plus range,” says Danigelis. “For a community our size, the $150,000 figure leaves us pretty short.”

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oes Ernest “Papa” Hemingway, a writer who loved blood sports and punched his literary critics in the beak, have any currency in a world where all of us guys risk being shunned like Amish adul­ terers if we fail to get in touch with our feminine side? In the world of “Friends,” who needs a dark story called “W inner Take Nothing?”

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The code was so strong in the breed that both Hemingway and Roosevelt showed unflagging courage under fire in war, as if they really didn’t understand that they also could be killed in the process. Roosevelt reportedly shamed a man into getting up from behind a bush to charge San Juan hill in Cuba, only to watch the fellow get shot in the head. He compared the sound of bullets whizzing around him to humming telegraph wires.

Hemingway was wounded as a teenage volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, fought with front-line troops in the Spanish Civil War, flew on bombing missions during World War II, hunted leopards with a spear, counseled a new war corre­ spondent on the sounds of vari­ ous guns and when to hit the dirt, and beat the U.S. Army into Paris to liberate a hotel wine cel­ lar from the Nazis.

His code had everything to do with confronting death artful­ ly, like a matador. In war, like a bull-fight or big-game hunt, that confrontation allows the protago­ nist the godlike opportunity to administer death instead of being defeated by it. Courage, said Hemingway, is grace under pres­ sure.

From A Farewell to Arms: “If people bring so much courage to this world, the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.

But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.”

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to share their innermost feel­ ings... if they ever have any. He advised an aspiring young writer who worked on his fishing boat, Pilar, to avoid writing about feel­ ings because the description usu­ ally turned out to be what you were taught to feel. Instead, he said, “Find what gave you the emotion; what the action was that gave you the excitement.

Then write it down, making it clear so the reader will see it too, have the same feeling that you had.”

Some critics dismiss his work as “cablese” — the shorthand prose war correspondents used to file their stories in the days of telegrams. No adjectives. No adverbs. No fat. Just blood and bones. In 1927, Virginia Woolf coined that “self-conscious virili­ ty.” Only with the publication of The Garden o f Eden five years after Hemingway’s death did people begin to suspect that behind the mask of bravado was a conflicted sexual identity.

But for those of us growing up as aspiring writers in the 1950s, Hemingway was not a hero, but the hero. He was on the cover of Time and Life multi­ ple times for winning the Nobel Prize, for walking away from two plane crashes while on African safari, for being the biggest, baddest, best character he ever creat­ ed. He was not the sort of man who used psychiatrists or launched lawsuits. He punched people, then forgot it.

Magazines regularly ran long pieces by Hemingway. Life ran the entire text of The Old Man and the Sea a week before it was published, and overnight it was in five million homes. He revisit­ ed the Spanish bull-fighting scene for Life in The Dangerous Summer. His last Life cover was his obituary issue. Hemingway was, as they would say in the movie industry, “huge.”

In fact, a half-dozen of his movies made it into films featur­ ing the biggest stars of the time — Gary Cooper, Ingrid Berg­ man, Ava Gardner, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck. But despite the money Hemingway made, he spent even more.

And now, here he comes again, the energizer bunny of male writers. This month Hemingway is on the cover of Sporting Classics magazine, the subject of a two-part article on marlin fishing in the Bahamas. A broad new line of Thomasville furniture called “The Heming­ way Collection” has hit the homewares market. Michael Palin recently did a two-part BBC/PBS series on Hemingway’s travels. The Old Man and the Sea is being refilmed for IMAX. New biographies appear every year. There is a Hemingway cookbook, and a new book on “Papa” and his old pal Gary Cooper.

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Hemingway’s childhood home in Oak Park, Illinois, is also a museum. So is his home in Ketchum, Idaho. W hen I went to Havana, Cuba, to track down old Hemingway haunts, I found that his home there, Finca Vigia, attracts 50,000 tourists a year. All the Hemingway hang­ outs have been restored, and a

bus tour called “the Hemingway Trail” sucks Germans, Canadians, Italians, Spanish and a few sneaky Americans into a little Castro industry.

All over the world, new gen­ erations of high school and col­ lege students are discovering Hemingway and his writing. But in local classrooms, anyway, reviews are mixed. UVM English Professor Huck G ut­ man, who is currently teaching in India, believes that in the United States “the image of Hemingway as the hunter and drinker and all-around male... contributes to a diminished enthusiasm for Hemingway in an age when gender concerns have come to the fore.” And some students are appalled by the amount of drinking in The Sun Also Rises, he says. This must not be the same crowd swarming Pearl Street Beverage just before closing time.

His colleague Allen Shepherd has gotten much more positive reactions from students. “They like him for all the predictable reasons. The image he created and maintained is one young men find particularly attractive,” he says. “But even some of the women have overcome the biases of their earlier teachers and are interested in how he writes about women.” This spring,

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On the surface, we are all more civilized now. Lap dogs, comparatively.

But you only have to throw a stick in front of a Labrador retriever to know how fast mam­ mals revert to basic instinct. A couple of weeks ago I received an e-mail from the son of a friend who had read about Hemingway in Cuba and was searching for a good biography: “He sounds like equal parts of macho man and bastard... just what we all want to be,” said the young man.

Perhaps in this world of com­ plex electronic connectivity and even more complex relationships, it’s the simplicity of the Heming­ way literary theme that appeals: Man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

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MAIN STREET QUARTET (jazz), Barnes

9 p.m. NC.

& Noble, S. Burlington, 6 p.m. NC. MOVIE NIGHT, 242 Main, 6 p.m. NC. AA GUY COLASACCO (singer-songwriter), Jake’s, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC. NORTH COUNTRY FAIR (Celtic/folk), Upper Deck Pub, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC.

OPEN MIKE, Otter Creek Tavern,

9 p.m. NC. HIGH FALSE (rock), Ground Zero,

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( ’70s-’90s DJ; prizes), Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. $3/$7. 18+ OPEN MIKE NIGHT, Cambridge Coffeehouse, Windridge Bakery, 7 p.m. Donations.

KARAOKE KAPERS (host Bob Bolyard),

135 Pearl, 9 p.m. NC. THE DETONATORS (blues/r&b), Red

Square, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. LAST NIGHT’S JOY (Irish), Ri Ra Irish

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BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish),

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TOP HAT DJS, 10 p.m. NC.

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OPEN MIKE, Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P .’s Pub, 9 p.m. NC.

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Upper Deck Pub, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC. ELLEN POWELL & SHANE HARDIMAN

(jazz), Leunig’s, 7 :3 0 p.m. NC. MINSTREL MISSION (folk), Pacific Rim, 9 p.m. NC. SOLSTICE (DJs Chia, Frostee & Shiva), 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4.

OPEN MIKE W/D. DAVIS, Cactus Cafe, 9 p.m. NC. DAN PARKS & THE BLAME (rock), Steer & Stein, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. JOHNNY DEVIL BAND (rock), Nectar’s, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. LIVE MUSIC, Red Square, 9 :3 0 p.m.

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MIGHTY LOONS (vintage rock),

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COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), $5-10.

Radisson Hotel, 8 p.m. $ 8/6 .

SIRSY (vintage rock), Nightspot 18+ Outback, 9 :3 0 p.m. $5-10.

RUN FOR COVER (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC.

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BUSTER, VIGALANTES, THE BOILS,

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KICKED IN THE HEAD (ska-punk),

DRAKE, Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIKE, Kept Writer, 7 p.m.

Higher Ground, 6 p.m. $7. AA YO YO NIPPLES (rock), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2.

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JOHN CASSEL (jazz piano),

COLLEGE NIGHT (house/Top 40),

Tavern at the Inn at Essex, 7 p.m. NC. TANTRUM (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC.

Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. Women NC/$7; men $2/7.

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FRIDAY PICTURE THIS (jazz), Upper

Deck Pub, 5 :3 0 p.m. NC. BOOTLESS & UNHORSED (Irish),

Rasputin's, 5 p.m. NC. UNCLE JIM & THE TWINS

(acoustic), Sweetwaters, 9 p.m.

NC. DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 135 Pearl,

10 p.m. $4.

THE FIGGS, CANCER CONSPIRACY, JAMES KOCHALKA SUPERSTAR

(alt-pop; indie), Club Metronome, 9 p.m. $ 5 W SANDRA WRIGHT (blues), Red Square, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC, DJ NIGHT, Ri Ra Irish Pub, 10:30 p.m. NC. LION’S DEN HIFI SOUND SYSTEM

(reggae DJs Yosef & Ras Jah I. Red), Manhattan Pizza & Pub, 10 p.m. NC. PERRY NUNN (acoustic guitar), Ruben James, 6 p.m., followed

by TOP HAT DJ, 10 p.m. NC. ROCK BOTTOM (rock), Nectar’s, 9:30 p.m. NC. TEEN NITE (hip-hop party).

Millennium NightclubBurlington, 6 p.m. $5, followed

by FUSION W/DJS ROBBIE J. & FROSTEE (r&b/hip-hop/Latin),

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REED & LYNN ROBINS (benefit for Saxon Hill School Scholar­ ship Fund), Village Cup, 8 p.m.

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BLOOZOTOMY (jump blues), Sam i’s Harmony Pub, 9 p.m. $3.

LIVE JAZZ, Diamond Jim ’s Grille, 7 :3 0 p.m. NC. MIKE PETERSON (rock), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC. DJ VIOLENT (hip-hop/disco), Ground Zero, 10 p.m. NC. THE HITMEN (rock), Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC. JUKE BOX HEROES (rock), City Lim its, 9 p.m. NC. CYLINDER (rock), Otter Creek Tavern, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. JETHRO MONEY (rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3.

ABAIR BROS, (rock), Rusty Nail, 9 p.m. $4.

SHADRACH (jam rock), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3-5.

LIVE MUSIC, Mountain Roadhouse, 9 p.m. $3-5.

DAVE KELLER BLUES BAND, Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4.

JOHN LACKARD BLUES BAND,

Gallagher’s, 9 p.m. $3.

EAMES BROS. TRIO (blues/jazz), Villa Tragara, 6 :3 0 p.m. $5.

DAWN DECKER (jazz), J.P. Morgan's, 7 p.m. NC.

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Rose Street Gallery, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5.

TRAGEDY, THE BLACK HAND, WORTHFIVEMINUTESOFYOURLIFE

(punk/’hardcore), 242 Main, 8 p.m. $5.

DJ LITTLE MARTIN, 135 Pearl, 10 p.m. $4.

COBALT BLUE (blues-rock), Nectar’s, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. RETRONOME (DJ; dance pop), Club Metronome, 10 p.m. $2.

LIVE MUSIC, Red Square, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. KARAOKE, J.P .’s Pub, 9 p.m.

NC. DJS TIM DIAZ & RUGGER (hiphop/r&b), Ruben James, 10 p.m. NC. FLASHBACK ( ’80s DJ), Rasputin’s, 9 p.m. NC. THE CLUBB MIXX W/DJS IRIE, FROSTEE & TOXIC (hip-

hop/house), Millennium Nightclub-Burlington, 9 p.m. $3/10. 18+ before 11 p.m.

RYAN HALLIBURPON (singersongwriter), Vermont Pub & Brewery, 9 p.m. NC. COMEDY ZONE (stand-up), Radisson Hotel, 8 p.m. $ 8/6 .

18+ GUY COLASACCO (singer-song­ writer), Jake’s, 6 :3 0 p.m. NC. RUN FOR COVER (rock), Henry’s Pub, Holiday Inn, 9 p.m. NC. SAM ARMSTRONG (jazz favorites), Tuckaway’s, Sheraton Hotel, 9 p.m. NC.

Ground, 9 p.m. $5 w/canned food/$6 . 18+ YO YO NIPPLE! ;k), Trackside Tavern, 9 p.m. $2.

REMINISCENCE (rock), Backstage Pub, 9 p.m, NC. TANTRUM (rock), Edgewater Pub, 9 p.m. NC. HOLIDAY CLASSICAL CONCERT,

Village Cup, 8 p.m. NC. MIKE PETERSON (rock), Monopole, 10 p.m. NC. KARAOKE W/FRANK, Franny O’s, 9 p.m. NC. DJ DANCE PARTY, City Limits, 9 p.m. NC. CYLINDER (rock; Tavern Christmas party), Otter Creek Tavern, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. WOLF LARSON (rock), Thirsty Turtle, 9 p.m. $3.

DAVE KELLER (acoustic blues), Capitol Grounds, 7 :3 0 p.m. NC. SPINN CITY W/DJ ROBBIE J. (hiphop/r&b), Millennium Nightclub-Barre, 9 p.m. $3/10.

18+ LIVE MUSIC (rock), Gallagher's, 9 p.m. $3.

LIVE MUSIC, Mad Mountain Tavern, 9 p.m. $4.

LAMBSBREAD (reggae), Matterhorn, 9 p.m. $3-5.

ABAIR BROS, (rock), Rusty Nail, 9 p.m. $4.

LIVE MUSIC, Blue Tooth, 9 :3 0 p.m. $2.

PETE MOSS & THE FERTILIZERS

(rock), Pickle Barrel, 9 p.m. $5-10.

SIRSY (vintage rock), Nightspot Outback, 9 :3 0 p.m. $5-10.

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After DarkMusic Series, TownHall Theater, 53 Merchants Row, Middlebury, 388-0216.

AlleyCats, 41 KingSt., Burl., 660-4304.

Angela’s Pub, 86 Main St., Middlebury, 388-0002.

Backstage Pub, 60 Pearl St., EssexJet, 878-5494.

Back Street, 17 Hudson St., St. Albans, 527-0033.

BlueTooth, Access Rd., Warren, 583-2656.

Boony’s, Rt. 236, Franklin, 933-4569.

Borders Books &Music, 29 Church St., Burlington, 865-2711.

Brownstone Tavern, 2 Center St. Alley, Rutland, 775-8098. Burlington Coffeehouse at Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 864-5888.

Cactus Cafe, 1LawsonLn., Burl., 862-6900.

Cambridge Coffeehouse, Windridge Bakery, Jeffersonville, 644-2233.

Capitol Grounds, 45 State St., Montpelier, 223-7800.

Champion’s, 32 MainSt., Winooski, 655-4705.

CharlieO’s, 70 Main St., Montpelier, 223-6820.

Chow! Bella, 28 N.MainSt., St. Albans, 524-1405.

CityLimits, 14 Greene St Vergennes, 877-6919.

ClubMetronome, 188 MainSt., Burlington, 865-4563.

Cobbweb, Sandybirch Rd., Georgia, 527-7000.

Deerleap Books, 25 MainSt., Bristol, 453-5684.

DiamondJim’s Grille, Highgate Comm. Shpg. Ctr., St Albans, 524-9280.

Dockside Cafe, 209 Battery, Burlington, 864-5266.

Edgewater Pub, 340 Malletts BayAve., Colchester, 865-4214.

Finnigan’s Pub, 205 College St., Burlington, 864-8209.

FlynnCenter/FlynnSpace, 153 Main St., Burlington, 863-5966.

FrannyO’s 733 QueenCityPk. Rd., Burlington, 863-2909.

Gallagher’s, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-8800.

GoodTimes Cafe, HinesburgVillage, Rt. 116,482-4444.

GroundZero, 3 Durkee St., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-566-6969.

Heartwood HollowGalleryStage, 7650 MainRd., Hanksville, 434-5830/ 888-212-1142.

Henry's, HolidayInn, 1068 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 863-6361.

Higher Ground, 1MainSL, Winooski, 654-8888.

Hornof the MoonCafe, 8 Langdon St., Montpelier, 223-2895.

Jake's, 1233 Shelburne Rd., S. Burlington, 658-2251.

J.P. Morgan's at Capitol Plaza, 100 Main St., Montpelier, 223-5252.

J.P.'s Pub, 139 Main St., Burlington, 658-6389.

The Kept Writer, 5 Lake St., St. Albans, 527-6242.

Leunig’s, 115 Church SL, Burlington, 863-3759.

MadMountainTavern, Rt. 100, Waitsfield, 496-2562.

Manhattan Pizza &Pub, 167 Main SL, Burlington, 658-6776.

Matterhorn, 4969 Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-8198.

MillenniumNightclub-Barre, 230 N.Main St., Barre, 476-3590.

MillenniumNightclub-Burlington, 165 Church St., Burlington, 660-2088.

Monopole, 7 ProtectionAve., Plattsburgh, N.Y., 518-563-2222.

Mountain Roadhouse, 1677 MountainRd., Stowe, 253-2800.

Nectar’s, 188 Main St., Burlington, 658-4771.

Ollie's, 13 Evelyn St., Rutland, 773-3710.

135 Pearl St., Burlington, 863-2343.

Otter CreekTavern, 215 Main St., Vergennes, 877-3667.

Pacific Rim, 111 St. Paul St., Burlington, 651-3000.

Pickle Barrel, KillingtonRd., Killington, 422-3035.

Radisson Hotel, 60 BatterySt., Burlington, 658-6500.

Rasputin’s, 163 Church St., Burlington, 864-9324.

RedSquare, 136Church SL, Burlington, 859-8909.

Rhombus, 186 College St., Burlington, 865-3144.

RiptonCommunityCoffee House, Rt. 125, 388-9782.

RI Rathe IrishPub, 123 Church St., Burlington, 860-9401.

Ruben James, 159 Main St., Burlington, 8 6 4-0744.

Rusty Nail, Mountain Rd., Stowe, 253-6245.

Signal to Noise HQ, 4 1 6 Pine St. (behind Speeder & Earl's), Burlington,

DAYVE HUCKETT (jazz guitar),

Sweetwaters, 11:30 a.m. NC. MARTIN GUIGUI (rock), Nectar’s, 9 :3 0 p.m. NC. DERRICK SEMLER (acoustic blues), Capitol Grounds, 11 a.m. NC.

TAMMY FLETCHER & THE DISCI­ PLES, DAVE GRIPPO HORNS, GRE­ GORY DOUGLASS (soul/blues;

funk; singer-songwriter w/band; benefit for Food Bank), Higher

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Starksboro Community Coffee House, Village Meeting House, Rt. 116, Starksboro, 4 3 4-4254.

Steer & Stein Pub, 147 N. Winooski Ave., 862-7449.

Sweetwaters, 118 Church St., Burlington, 864-9 80 0 .

The Tavern at the Inn at Essex, Essex Jet., 878-1100.

Thirsty Turtle, 1 S. Main St., Waterbury, 244-5223.

Trackside Tavern, 18 Malletts Bay Ave., Winooski, 6 5 5-9542.

T. Rugg’s Tavern, 149 Elmwood Ave., Burlington, 6 5 8-0456.

Tuckaway’s, Sheraton, 870 Wiiliston Rd., S. Burlington, 865-6600.

UpperDeck Pub at the Windjammer, 1076 Williston Rd., S. Burlington, 862-6585.

Valencia, Pearl St. & S. Winooski, Ave., Burlington, 658-8978.

Vermont Pub & Brewery, 144 College, Burlington, 865-0500.

The Village Cup, 30 Rt. 15, Jericho, 899-1730.

Villa Tragara, Rt. 100, Waterbury Ctr., 244-5288.

Wine Works, 133 St. Paul St., Burlington, 9 5 1-9463.

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thought better of that when planning their benefit for the Saxon H ill School Scholarship Fund. Instead, join

paean to Hannukah, “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel.” It >

local singers Laurie Reeder and Lynn Robins at the

was obvious Simon was only marginally familiar, if

coffeehouse this Friday for a nice round of caroling...

that, with the phab phour, but he agreed that the

and fundraising.

O n Saturday night at Higher Ground, benefit

songlet was truly execrable. Wonder if Nayder has heard Fishman’s work on the vacuum cleaner...

queen Tammy Fletcher brings her' Disciples — and

BABY BLISS If you’re old enough to remember MiSS

Vermont Food Bank. The Gregory Douglass Band

the Dave Grippo Horns — to the stage for the BIlSS — Burlington’s first all-girl rock band, back in

open. Bring a canned-food item and get a buck off at

HARDEST WORKING MAN IN ... POLITICS?

the ’80s — you’ll be happy to hear about the second

the door. And don’t eat it on the way over.

Burlington Mayor Peter C lavelle led his holiday

generation. Drum m er Carolyn Castellano has a baby

party guests in a round of Christmas carols last week­

hoy named Sail1U6l; guitarist Sandy Zaragoza has a

SIN GLE TRACKS Psst. W ord has it Chad H ollister

end, but in other circles he’s known for his Jam es

baby girl named EV3; accordionise/vocalist Carol

will be showing up at his N ectar’s gig December 28

Brown impersonation. JB? T h e Godfather of Soul?

DeFeciani has a new acoustic Fender. T h at’s the report

with a member of The Jerry G a rcia Band in tow.

From a mayor in the whitest state in the nation? Yes.

from Steph Pappas, guitarist/vocalist in her own

Strangefolk sold out Decem ber 30 and N ew Year’s

“M usic is always good for international relations,”

Experience, and the only former Miss to still live in

Eve at Higher G round, despite the departure o f lead

notes M ayors Assistant Bill M itchell dryly, “especial­

Burlington. T h e other three moved to Boston years

singer Reid G enauer. T h e new lineup is a five-piece

ly for visitors who are not fluent in English.”

ago and have been productive in other musical pro­

with the addition of new singer/guitarist Luke

M itchell says his boss has performed his act for local

jects as well as reproductive. Congrats to all!

Montgomery and keyboardist SCOtt S hd eed . After that H G closes down until January 17. . . . T h in k

fundraisers and Progressive Coalition events, too — even courageously leaping off the stage at the former

EXPIRATION DATE? Some of you boys and girls will be

Santa C la u s gets all the attention this time o f year?

Germ an C lu b into a sort-of split.

very happy to hear that Burlington’s 5 Seconds

T h e n join M other Nature and D ream Party

Expired are back in action after a three-year hiatus.

Productions in their celebration of the Solstice with

to “I Feel Good.” “I f you’re standing too close, he’ll

Funny, we used to call that “breaking up.” In this case

— what else? — a dance party on the longest night

ask you to do the na-na-na-na-nas in the back­

they kept breathing life into virulent hardcore via

of the year with D Js C ilia , FrOStee and S h iv a,

ground,” Mitchell says. Could be the only occasion

Minimus (which is finishing up a new C D ) and Non

Thu rsd ay at 135 Pearl . . . Signal to Noise just sent

the chief of Vermont’s largest city has for going down

Compos Mentis. Original members Jeff Howlett, JOSh

out another fine issue, featuring articles on that

on his knees — although I haven’t attended enough

Cooper, Shaun Varney and Gary W illiam s are not only

funky law firm M e d e ski, Martin & Wood and

city council meetings to know for sure. But the three-

resuscitating 5SE on stage (no gigs in Burlington until

recent S T N visitor S a b ir M ateen. Coincidence? . . .

term Mayor, who recently won his office a little more

February), they’re also working on a new recording

Robert Larow , from the ex-Burlington Orange

clout with commissions, has reason to feel good. Unh.

because, says Williams, “the timing is right for the four

Factory crew, has been hired to produce two songs

But the Mayor is a one-song performer, sticking

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23 • S6 AT DOOR, S5 W/ CANNED GOOD FOOD SHELF BENEFIT & HOLIDAY PARTY

TAMMY FLETCHER & THE DISCIPLES

Nayder, who was presenting his “Horrible Songs for the Holiday.” Guess what made the fist. Jon Fishm an’s

for Jo d e d at Universal Records. H e joins former

of us.”

Q ueen C ity DJ/singer C raig M itch ell and ex-

FAME AND FORTITUDE T h e holiday greeting postcard from P hish — like their career — is enough to make

LISTENING PARTY I f you’re a new band ready to

B e lizb e h a keyboardist Jerem y S k a lle r in making a

other groove-star wannabes drool. It’s a soft-focus

unveil yourself to the world — or at least Boston —

splash in the bigger musical puddle of N Y C . C o o l . .

WITH THE DAVE CR IPPO HORNS

photo (by band photog Danny Clinch) of one of their

sign up for the N E M O Music Showcase. T h e interna­

. D o n ’t forget the fourth annual Chrom e Cowboys

GREGORY DOUGLASS and BAND

final gigs of the fall tour, in Las Vegas, September 29,

tionally recognized, multi-genre conference is not until

H o -H o -H o -D o w n at Metronome this Thursday. The

at which some 20,000 fans are holding lighters aloft in

April 19-21, but the deadline for showcase applica­

always-star-studded holiday show hosts a bevy of

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a birthday tribute to guitarist/singer Trey AnaStaSIO.

tions is January 12. So don’t wait for that end-of-year

guests, from sweet-voiced Ju liet M c V ic k e r to that

T h e band is taking an extended break, which is the

bonus to finish your demo project. You’ll find entry

screaming Christm as elf, Jam es KOChalka . . . T h e

cause of considerable mourning (black tie-dyes, any­

forms and other info at www.nemoboston.com, or call

Point and Cabot Cream ery are giving away a Fender

one?).

781-306-0441. Good luck!

autographed by Rob W eir to raise money for four

DO GOOD DEPT. W hat’s more fun than a family sing-

homeless shelters. En ter the drawing by sending $20

along? Okay, maybe a rousing game of nude Twister,

or more to: T h e Point’s Co alition for the Homeless,

but the fine folks at Jericho’s Village Cu p probably

P O Box 551, Montpelier, V T 05601 . . . ®

Guess N P R ’s “Weekend Edition” host Scott Simon wasn’t in the audience. Last Saturday morning the

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NINJA DEATH SQUAD, ROBOT V S. NINJA VS. YOUR

M OM (Assassin Records, C D ) — T h e sonic assault that is ninja death squad’s latest offering is as amusing as ir is discordant. T h e Vermont hardcore duo is composed o f A nd y Bennet and Nate Meurnier, who tackle guitar nile lyrics, manic screaming and frenzied deliver}' on the album’s 15 tracks. T h e musicianship is passable (barely) but this band is not about making pretty melodies — although they come close on track 12, “W alking on Brain Planet.” Rather, ninja death squad is out to channel all the aggression, testosterone and

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into the audio equivalent of a beserk attack.

Lest anyone get their hackles up at the thought of this devil-music, relax: Robot vs. N in ja vs. Your M om is as far from an angst-ridden M arilyn Manson as Jamaican dancehall is from jungle. Yes, there are simi­ larities: deep and guttural screams and thick walls of noise — amazingly so, coming from just two instru­ ments — but ninja death squad doesn’t bother with the bleak and depressing. T h e y ’re having too much fun.

Explicit threats regarding borrowed comic books (“I

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self-explanatory “You W ack off to Disco Inferno” may seem angry and gratuitously vulgar. But Bennet and M eurnier are just making noise; they could never take the heat for instigating anything more violent than a smashed beer bottle or a kicked-over speaker.

There are lots o f familiar names, listed in the credits

G ay” are all track titles. But there are indications that

for F u ll and Away. T h e ubiquitous Pete Sutherland cov­

the ninja boys are not rabid fag-bashers: T h e liner notes

ers production; Peter Engisch at A d Astra in W illiston

include a disclaimer that “any use of the word gay is

engineered and mixed. Lane Gibson at Eller Studios

not meant in an offensive manner”; track 5 is called

handled the mastering. Yet despite the presence of all

“W e D on ’t Break for Homophobes”; and the band’s

these seasoned sound pros, Atlantic Crossing managed

next album is due to be released on Heartcore Records,

to put out a recording that sounds just like they do

whose mandate is to provide a venue for queer and

when performing live — w hich, in their case, is a good

queer-friendly artists. Perhaps they’re simply reclaiming

thing.

T h e guitar and bouzouki playing of Klein and Perkins provides solid rhythm ic foundation for all these

proudly call themselves “bitches.” There’s no vitriol

tunes, and Fox, Macfarlane and Perkins all are capable

behind the term here, unlike on, say, Em inem ’s latest,

of impressive lead and melody work. Klein and Perkins

but it’s still m ildly surprising to hear it used so often

have strikingly similar singing voices and share the leads throughout, adding energy and some rough edges that

N inja death squad proclaim they just want to make the world a much louder, more chaotic place. A nd

make the music sound more “real.”

Am ong all the fine music-making here, an original

Robot vs. N in ja vs. Your M om does just that, without

titled “La Marquisarde” stands out. Fox wrote this one

ever losing its sense of humor. I f you’re curious about

commemorating her grandmother’s role in the French

the local hardcore sound, grab a bottle and enjoy this.

Resistance, and it’s a showstopper. M y sole regret is that

— Ara Finlayson

and drums, respectively. Both share credit for the juve­

energy found in any healthy young male and turn it

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French-Canadian waltz set.

throughout the album.

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peppered with the word “gay” — “T h is Album is G ay,”

embraced “nigga” and today’s female hip-hop M C s

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Maine, in the 1940s. T h e album also has a great

the word “gay” in the same way that early rappers

TO D D TH IBA U D

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Flanders and sung by Charles Finnemore of Staceyville,

noted that Robot vs. N in ja vs. Your M om is liberally “M y Pink Sweater is G ay” and “M y Girlfriend Calls Me

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“Tarry Sailor,” a very English-sounding ditty taped by

bearing on how his or her work is received, it must be

the wonderful voice o f St. Albans musician Michele Choiniere, who guests on this song, is too far back in

ATLANTIC CROSSING, FU LL AND AW AY (self-released,

the mix. But this is a small quibble about an album

C D ) — T h e Vermont band Atlantic Crossing has been

that is definitely in m y top three local releases of the

performing around N ew England for years, and has

year.

— Robert Resnik

built a reputation for carefully researched material, rock-solid rhythms and meticulous musicianship. T h e band is composed o f Addison Co un ty fiddler (and champion fencer) Viveka Fox, Panton guitarist R ick Klein and folklorist/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Brian Perkins. They’re augmented during the summer months

by English fiddler Peter Macfarlane, who tours and records with the band when his schedule permits.

Atlantic Crossing’s second C D , F u ll and Away, showcases the many abilities of these musicians, and verifies why they’re in the forefront of the Vermont acoustic music scene.

F u ll and Away is a collection of ballads and other tunes from the northeastern United States, French Canada and northwestern Europe, along with dance tunes — Atlantic Crossing is notable as a hot contra dance band — and some originals written by Viveka.

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somewhat more modern development. And though they’ve served as mini-billboards for advertising or personal mementos, matches have rarely been something you didn’t feel okay about using and thowing away. Enter Diane Sullivan. I f you’ve been to Red Square, you’ve probably already witnessed her handiwork with the little folded packages: terse messages more cryptic than fortune cookies; photos pasted onto fronts or backs; idiosyncratic col­ lages. Call it striking artwork in miniature. Her new exhibit o f match — and matchless — art is on display through December.

N eed S o m e In s p ir a t io n ? . B r o W s e o p r f in e a r t a n d c ra ft c o lle c t io n fo r a

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Across from the Shelburne Shopping Pork, Shelburne • 985-3848

mixed media. Men’s Room, Burling­ ton, 864-2088. Through February.

UNMATCHED, match-cover art by Diane Sullivan. Also, JEFF SPENCER, paint­ ings. Red Square, Burlington, 8598 9 0 9. Through January 1.

DANIEL PITTMAN, new works in mixed media. Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, 8 65-7165. Through January 14. Also, “ Chimney Tree,” an installation in the former Hood Plant, S. Winooski Ave., Burlington, viewable from street. Ongoing.

'Sfrf.PATHS, travel photographs by Berne Broudy and Mike Donohue. Muddy Waters, Burlington, 4 34-5074.

Through December.

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW,

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Vermont scenic photographs by Fred Stetson. Dorothy Ailing Memorial Library, Williston Village, 8 78-4918.

Through January 30 . 'a SEEING WITH NEW PERSPECTIVE, NeoSurrealist paintings by Ethan Azarian

weekly

and Neo-Surrealist Assemblage by Greg Brower. Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, 652 -99 8 5 . Through January 23.

PERFORMANCE ART, paintings by Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. and Alice Murdoch. Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, 86 -FLYNN. Through December.

VERNISSAGE 2 0 01 , an annual holiday group show of D-A represented artists, celebrating three years of business at the gallery. Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, 864 -36 6 1 . Through January.

FACES OF OUR COMMUNITY, pho­ tographs by Julie Steedman.

Burlington City Hall, 860 -44 3 6 .

Through January 2.

FEATHERS IN FLIGHT, monotypes in oil

by Lyna Lou Nordstrom. Finale Salon, S. Burlington, 862-07 1 3 . Through January 15.

THE ALLURE OF THE CURVE, featuring hand-forged sculptural gold jewelry by Timothy Grannis and a photo-collabo­ ration by Alex Williams and Claudia Venon. Grannis Gallery, Burlington, 6 60-2032. Through December.

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WINTER WONDERLAND, featuring the work of Vermont artisans, including Grace Pomerleau, Peter DeLuca and Ruth Pope. Frog Hollow Vermont.

State Craft Center, Burlington, 8636 4 5 8 . Through December.

FLIGHTS OF FANCY, a group show fea­ turing 15 local artists in varied media. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, 9 8 5 -38 4 8 . Through January 16.

FRENCH IMPRESSIONS, paintings by Carolyn Walton from a recent trip to the Dordogne River Valley. LuxtonJones Gallery, Shelburne, 985-8223.

Through December.

CLEMENT, mixed-media works by Joe Harig. Daily Planet Restaurant, Burlington, 8 6 2 -96 4 7 . Through January 1.

A SEN SE OF PLACE: DRAWING ON VER­ MONT’S REGIONAL CHARACTER, fine

hand-pulled prints from ink drawings

by David Goodrich. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 8 6 5 -72 1 1 . Also, ILLUMINATED MANU­ SCRIPT VARIATIONS, mixed-media works by Scott deBie. Fletcher Room.

Both through December.

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ELDER ART, featuring the works of

local seniors. Brownell Public Library, Essex Jet., 8 7 8 -69 5 5 . Through December.

IN THE MESH, recent abstract works

by Peter Russom. Rhombus Gallery, Burlington, 8 6 5 -31 4 4 . Through December.

HOLIDAY AT THE OLD RED MILL, a group show by members of the Northern Vermont Artist Association. Red Mill Gallery, Jericho., 8 9 9 -11 0 6 . Through December 27.

THE LAST FRONTIER, an evolving ceil­ ing installation by Torin Porter; visi­ tors are invited to leave lightweight objects for inclusion. Club Metronome, Burlington, 8 6 5 -45 6 3 .

Through December.

ELIZABETH EDGERTON, impressionistic/expressionistic paintings. Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier, 8284 7 8 4 . Through December 22.

THEMES AND VARIATIONS, stained glass, dolls, masks and decorated gourds by Chris and Meredith Martin; stoneware and porcelain works by Judy Jensen. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 28-9878. Through January 7.

BEFORE THE GOLDEN DOME: THE STATE HOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD, 1859-1907,

featuring historic photographs reveal­ ing daily life in Montpelier before the dome was gilded. The Vermont Historical Society presents at the State House Card Room, Montpelier, 2 34-5039. Through January.

THE FABULOUS '50S: WELCOME HOME

FIRE & SPICE: THE CULINARY ALCHEMY,

TO POST-WAR VERMONT, the museum’s

photographs by Jeffrey P. Roberts. A Single Pebble Restaurant, Berlin, 4 7 6 -97 0 0 . Through January 24.

VERMONT HAND CRAFTERS: Work by local artisans. Vermont By Design Gallery, Waterbury, 244-7566.

Ongoing.

SCRAP-BASED ARTS & CRAFTS, featur­ ing re-constructed objects of all kinds by area artists. The Restore, Montpelier, 2 29-1930. Ongoing.

ALICE ECKLES, paintings and mixed media. Old School House, Marshfield, 456-89 9 3 . Ongoing.

newest historic house, depicting a Vermont family in 1950; SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: Continuity and Change in American Furniture and Decorative Arts, 1700-1820; FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO P.T. BARNUM,

prints; and LANDSCAPE & LIGHT, paintings by Martin Johnson Heade.

Shelburne Museum, 985 -33 4 8 .

Ongoing.

RICK SUTTA, oil paintings “with impact.” Rick Sutta Gallery, Burlington, 8 6 0 -75 0 6 . Ongoing.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY TOM HOMANN & JILL MADDEN, ceram­

ics and paintings. Ferrisburgh Artisans Guild, 8 7 7 -36 6 8 . Through January.

GINGERBREAD HOUSES, an annual exhibit and competition of tasty archi­ tecture. Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, 3 8 8 -49 6 4 . Through December 23.

DONNA OWENS, wild and domestic animal photographs, and ALFRED JARGER, handcrafted furniture.

Marvin’s Carvins, Ferrisburgh, 87762 8 3. Through December.

HOLIDAY SHOW, featuring unique artis­ tic gifts by Vermonters. Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, W. Rutland, 438 -20 9 7 . Through December.

NORTHERN PETER MILLER The Waterbury photog­

rapher features “ Stowe Moonscape” and other work. Vermont Fine Art, Gale Farm Center, Stowe, 253-9653.

Through December.

JEANETTE CHUPACK, recent paintings.

Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253-7116.

Through January 7.

1ST ANNUAL MEMBERS’ EXHIBIT, fea­ turing paintings and sculpture by more than 50 area artists. Also, the 20TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE TREES,

Christmas greenery and paintings by Alice and Walton Blodgett. Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, 253-8358.

Through December 30.

CECIL “SPIKE” BELL: VERMONT’S SEC­

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OND-GENERATION ASHCAN ARTIST,

NAPOLEON IN EGYPT, engravings, pho­

paintings and prints. Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, 7 7 5 -03 5 6 . Through January 7.

tographs, maps, letters and artifacts; and LUIGI LUCIONI: A CENTENARY RET­

2001 FIGURATIVE MANIFESTATIONS,

IST, landscapes and still lifes by the

works of art and craft based on the human figure, by Lynne Barton and Mariel Phair. Barton Pitti Gallery, Rutland, 4 3 8 -56 1 1 . Through January 1.

METALWORKS, a solo exhibit by con­ temporary metal artisan Bruce R. MacDonald. Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Middlebury, 3884 0 7 4 . Through January 1.

part-time Vermonter (190 0 -1 98 8 ).

Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, 3 6 2 -14 0 5 . Through January.

STONES, SCHOLARS AND SUPPORTERS: MIDDLEBURY AND THE GROWTH OF ITS COLLEGE, a multi-media exhibit in

honor of the college’s bicentennial.

Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, 3 88-2117. Through March.

CENTRAL VERMONT TAKE IT HOME: ART FOR REAL PEOPLE,

featuring works in multiple media by 21 artist members. Studio Place Arts, Barre, 4 7 9 -70 6 9 . Through January 13.

RAY BROWN, landscape paintings.

Mist Grill Gallery, Waterbury, 2442 2 3 3. Through January 15.

25 YEARS OF CELEBRATING ART, featur­ ing works by members of the Art Resource Association. T.W. Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, 8 28-8743. Through December 22.

PAINTING WITH PAPER, collage works

by Susan Goodby. Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, 8 2 8 -54 2 2 . Through December 29.

WINTER WHIMSEY, a holiday exhibit of toys, ornaments and playful clay objects. Vermont Clay Studio, Waterbury, 2 4 4 -11 2 6 . Through December.

ROSPECTIVE OF A RENAISSANCE REAL­

ELSEW H ER E PICASSO: THE VOLLARD SUITE, 1930-

1937, featuring 100 prints compiled

by French art dealer Ambroise Vollard. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 6 0 3 -646-2808. Through March 11.

HITCHCOCK, an exhibit devoted to the aesthetic development of director Alfred Hitchcock’s film s, with posters, production stills, film clips, annotated scripts and set models. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 514-2851600. Through March 18.

SURFACE AND DEPTH: TRENDS IN CON­ TEMPORARY PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY,

featuring the work of eight artists exploring new photographic practices.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N .H., 603-6462 8 0 8 . Through December.

PLEA SE NOTE: Seven Days is unable to accommodate all of the displays in our readership area, thus these listings must be restricted to exhibits in truly public viewing places. Art in business offices, lob­ bies and private residences or stu­ dios, with occasional exceptions, will not be accepted. Send your listings to galleries@sevendaysvt.com.

with basic geometric forms. But the black roofs of the houses are not really black at all. They are extremely dark blues, browns, greens and other alternating warm and cool hues. In an almost unnoticeable transition, dark purples at the edge of the pic­ ture plane give way to lighter values toward the center, sucking the view­ er into a chromatic vortex.

The vertical painting “Chicago from Memory” uses a similar device, transitioning from dark blue to light greens. A red coffee cup slightly offcenter is the linchpin holding the composition together.

One of the nicest aspects of Browers assemblage work is that it’s not overly influenced by American originator Joseph Cornell. Brower’s stuffed parrot in “Polly Doesn’t Need Any Crackers Anymore” is much scruffier than Cornell’s stuffed parrot from “Hotel Eden,” for example.

Brower is more directly influ­ enced by Varujan Boghosian, a world-class sculptor who taught at Dartmouth College. From him, Brower seems to have assimilated a keen understanding of found objects “ P a g e a n t, P e d e sta l, C en tral P e d e sta l,” by G reg Brow er as abstract design elements. While Browers pieces can be humorous, provocative and full of connotations, B y M arc A wodey narrative content may well be secondary in most of them.

“You Can’t Get There From Here” is a wall wo weirdly whimsical oeuvres are on display piece consisting of 36 identical rusted-brass door­ at the Flynndog Gallery in a maiden exhibit knob plates with skeleton keyholes, all framed in curated by preeminent Burlington contem­ black. A bundle of skeleton keys hangs in front of porary art collector Mark Waskow. Former them. The rhythm of the piece has little to do Vermont painter Ethan Azarian, now of Austin, with the title and much to do with Brower’s orga­ Texas, and sculptor Greg Brower of Enfield, New nization of the objects. The plates have also been Hampshire, have filled the cavernous gallery from selectively polished to enhance their symmetry. stem to stern with exuberant and unusual art­ “Pageant, Pedestal, Central Pedestal,” Brower’s works. large floor piece featuring decapitated, nude Brower is an assemblage artist who constructs Barbie dolls, has an oddly Art Deco look. Its col­ on a grand scale, and Azarian is a remarkable col­ orist whose cartoonish humor is built upon a solid ors are black and gold, and the clusters of Barbies are in various Busby Berkeley chorus-line poses on formal foundation. Azarian is also quite prolific, top of eight street-sweeper brushes stood on end. presenting more than 50 large and small new The brushes works. Many have a similar theme, surround as groups of objects such as chairs, the central cows, sharks and houses seem to pedestal — float with no concern for gravity. In an eight­ other pieces the objects swirl in sided col­ rooms, geometric cityscapes or umn with a undulating landscapes balanced large golden between light and long shadows. ball on top.

While there is naivete in his A defiled works such as “Man vs. Alien,” Barbie is old Azarian’s folkie use of patterning is news, but also animated by slight variations of dozens of value and hue that direct the eye them danc­ around the image. “Man vs. Alien” ing on and could easily be entitled “Rousseau vs. around Brueghel the Elder.” Like Brueghel, Brower’s Azarian moves islands of red — in bizarre his case airplanes rather than peas­ architecture ants — across the painting like notes of columns on a musical staff. The bright red air­ “ Herd of C h a irs ,” Ethan A za ria n . and spheres planes seem to be battling yellow works, in alien objects amidst burning cities part because of the contrast between the dainti­ and sailboats. The rolling landscape of green hills, bine-water and white clouds is flattened Rousseau- ness of each doll and the elephantine mass of each style, and simplified with the same “artless” brush- column.

Brower and Azarian are a good pairing. Both work and even-toned values that the French are non-academic but quite sophisticated artists. painter might have used.

W ith this exhibit, and the help of curator “The Big Flood” demonstrates how subtle Waskow, the Flynndog Gallery ends its first calen­ Azarian can really be as a colorist. The image is a dar year on a clarion high note. ® clash of coffee cups, houses and sailboats, defined

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Three stars, believe me, is more than I ever imagined I’d end up handing Mel Gibson’s lat­ est. As I watched the ads and trailers over the past several months, something just struck me as unseemly about the notion of a middle-aged sex symbol’s personal production company releasing a picture clearly designed to promote the actor’s image as a sex symbol. Especially when those ads feature women salivating over his butt and gawking at his crotch as he closes his eyes and chuckles with glee.

Even the movie’s title seemed like a set-up. The film’s creators just knew that every entertainment report and celebrity interview was going to incorporate the clever observation: “W hat do women want? Mel Gibson, of course!” And, so far, they have.

More than I expected, though, the film did win me over. What Women Want stars Gibson as a chauvinistic Chicago ad man and guys guy. Just as he’s about to land the promotion of his dreams, the position goes instead to Helen Hunt, whose first assignment to the agency’s creative staff is to take home an assortment of popular feminine products (all of whose manufac-

turers are shopping around for new representation) and come up with a fresh approach to market­ ing them. “I’m gonna hafta learn how to think like a broad,” quips our hero with disdain.

Then, in one of the picture’s seemingly infinite supply of com­ pletely unbelievable scenes, Gibson goes straight home and starts painting on fingernail pol­ ish, working in hair volumizer and pulling on pantyhose. Just when you’d swear things couldn’t get more slapstick and ridiculous, the guy falls into his tub with an electric hairdryer and, as so often happens, wakes up the next morning with the ability to read women’s’ minds.

At first, his new power spooks him, but he realizes before long that it offers just the edge he needs to show his boss and Hunt that no one under­ stands the female psyche better than he does. The fun part isn’t watching him steal ideas from his rival and claim them as his own.

It’s not seeing him taken down a peg or two as he learns to his shock what a jerk the women at his firm consider him. And it certainly is not witnessing his inevitable transformation into a sensitive, caring she-male, a gim­ mick far more cleverly exploited

in source material such as Mr. Mom, Junior and Tootsie.

What is watchable in Gibson’s first romantic comedy is, in fact, the train wreck of a relationship between the main character and his estranged daughter. So is the routine but oddly diverting love connection that eventually gets Gibson and Hunt playing on the same team. Both story elements are completely by the book, but it’s mildly amusing to watch Hunt crack her whip at Mel for a while.

And, as his acid-tongued 15-yearold, Ashley Johnson has the best lines in the film. She could be Christine Baranski’s lovechild.

So, overall, the movie is in questionable taste and of dubious quality, with only microscopic trace amounts of originality, but it does have a palatable comic moment or three. I still think it’s a shamelessly contrived forum brought into being solely for the purpose of giving its star a place to engage in all sorts of ludicrous nonsense (nothing says Miller Time like an after-work Fred Astaire dance routine alone in your apartment), but I have to give it credit. Unfathomable as it may be to me, Mel s latest appar­ ently gives pretty much every­ body else precisely what they want. ©

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Jennifer Garner costars. Danny Leiner directs. (PG-13)

WES CRAVEN PRESENTS: DRACULA 20 00

THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE*'*

And that’s about all he does. Patrick Lussier directs and Johnny Lee Miller stars in this umpteenth update of the vampire legend. (R)

Disney’s latest animated musical come­ dy tells the story of a young emperor transformed into a llama by a devious and power-hungry enemy. Featuring the music of Sting. (PG) DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS**'* Jeremy irons and Thora Birch star in this oddly timed — does anyone actually play this anymore? — game-inspired tale about an evil wizard and his plot to dethrone a beautiful empress. (PG-13) UNBREAKABLE*** Bruce Willis had a sixth sense it would pay to team up with writer-director M. Night Shyamalan again. He’s joined by Robin Wright and Samuel L. Jackson in the story of a security guard who survives a devastating train wreck and comes to believe he has a rare condition which makes him indestructible. (PG-13)

THE FAMILY MAN

It's a Wonderful Life

meets The Sixth Sense, sort of, in the story of a Wall Street playboy who wakes up one morning magically trans­ planted into the life he might have led if he’d married his high-school sweet­ heart. Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni star.

(PG-13) RIFIFI Jules Dassin’s 1955 heist saga has been called one of the best exam­ ples of film noirewer made. Set in Paris, the story concerns a jewel rob­ bery that goes awry. (NR) MISS CONGENIALITY Sandra Bullock stars in the story of an unrefined FBI agent who gets a major makeover so she can go undercover in a beauty pageant. Michael Caine costars. Donald Petrie directs. (PG-13) CAST AWAY From Robert (What Lies Beneath) Zemeckis comes the reason Tom Hanks grew that beard, the story of a corporate strategist stranded on a desert island for four years. With Helen Hunt. (PG-13)

s h o rts * = REFUND, PLEASE ** = COULD’VEBEEN WORSE, BUT NOTA LOT *** = HAS ITS MOMENTS; SO-SO **** = SMARTER THAN THEAVERAGE BEAR ***** = AS GOODAS IT GETS PROOF OF LIFE***'* Fiction and reality

meet in this action adventure about a hostage negotiator who falls in love with the wife of the American busi­ nessman he’s sent to South America to save. Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe star. Taylor Hackford directs. (R) HEY, DUDE, WHERE’S MY CA R?*** Seann William Scott and Ashton Kutcher play hard-partying potheads who wake up one morning to find they can’t find their car and need to piece together the events of the previous night.

DR. SEU SS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS***'* Ron Howard directs

this adaptation of the children’s clas­ sic. Jim Carrey stars as the big green meanie. With Christine Baranski and Molly Shannon. (PG) 102 DALMATIONS** It’s official: Oncegreat French thespian Gerard Depardieu has gone to the dogs. The actor joins Glenn Close for this liveaction sequel in which Cruella and company set their sights on a financial­ ly troubled orphanage for the spotted pups. Directed by Kevin Lima. (G)

Zemeckis. Shot partially in Vermont, the picture tells the spooky story of a wife who becomes convinced the ghost of a woman with whom her husband once had an affair is haunting their home and planning to do them harm.

Amber Valletta costars. (PG-13) ALMOST FAMOUS***'* The latest from Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe is the semiautobiographical tale of a teenage boy who gains entry to the heady world of big-time rock journal­ ism. Billy Crudup, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand star. (R) ME, MYSELF & IRENE*** Jim Carrey plays good cop-bad cop without any help from anyone, as a split personality in the latest laugher from the Farrelly brothers. Renee Zellweger costars as the woman he finds arresting. (R) BEDAZZLED**'* Harold Ramis brings us this remake of a 1967 comedy in which Satan materializes in the form of a beautiful woman and offers to grant a loser seven wishes in exchange for his soul. Brendan Fraser and Elizabeth Hurley star. (PG-13) WHAT LIES BENEATH** Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer star in the latest from Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis. Shot partially in Vermont, the picture tells the spooky story of a wife who becomes convinced the ghost of a woman with whom her husband once had an affair is haunting their home and planning to do them harm.

Amber Valletta costars. (PG-13)

RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE***

Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow and Debbie Reynolds lend their voices to the latest big-screen saga starring everybody’s favorite animated toddlers.

This time around, the gang travels to France to take in the new Euro Reptar theme park. (G) BILLY ELLIOT***'* Jamie Bell and Julie Walters star in the saga of a talented young dancer torn between the expec­ tations of his working-class family and his deep love of performing. Stephen Daidry directs. (R) WHAT LIES BENEATH** Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer star in the latest from Forrest Gump director Robert

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Wednesday 20 — thursday 21

matinees Sat-Sun only.

friday 22 — tuesday 26 Castaway* 11:30, 3, 6:45, 10. Family Man* 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10.

Miss Congeniality* 11:10, 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20. Pretty Horses* (Mon.-Tues. only) 11:40, 3:15, 7, 9:50. What Women Want 10:45, 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05.

Proof of Life (ends Sun.) 11:40, 3:15, 7, 9:50. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 11 (not Fri.), 11:45 (Fri. only), 1:20 (not Fri.), 3:50, 6:30, 9:10. 12/24 NO LATE SHOWS. 12/25 NO EARLY MATINEES.

SH O W C A SE C IN EM A S 5 Williston Road, S. Burlington, 863-4494.

Wednesday 20 — thursday 21 The Emperor’s New Groove 12:30, 2:30, 4:40, 6:40, 9. Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? 12:35, 2:45, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40.

Dungeons & Dragons 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30. Men of Honor 9:15. Charlie's Angels 7:10, 9:35. 102 Dalmations 1, 4, 7.

Rugrats in Paris 12:40, 2:50, 5. Matinees Sat-Sun only.

friday 22 — tuesday 26 Dracula 2000* 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10. Billy Elliot 7, 9:40. Proof of Life 6:40, 9:30. The Emperor’s New Groove 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30. Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? 12:40, 2:50, 5, 7:20, 9:45. Dungeons & Dragons 1, 3:50.

Rugrats in Paris 12:50, 2:45, 4:50.

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Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? 12:50, 2:50, 4:55, 7:20, 9:20. The Emperor’s New Groove 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10.

Dungeons & Dragons 1:50, 4:50, 7:25, 10. Proof of Life 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40. Unbreakable 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50. 102 Dalmations 1:40, 4:10, 7:15.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. Rugrats in Paris 12:45, 3, 5. 6th Day 9:50. Meet the Parents 7, 9:35.

Matinees Sat-Sun only.

friday 22 — tuesday 26 Castaway* 11:30, 3, 6:45, 10:05. Family Man* 10:45, i:3 0 , 4:20, 7:30, 10:15.

Miss Congeniality* 11:10, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20. Dracula 2000* 11:45, 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10. What Women Want 10:35, 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10. Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? 10:40, 12:40, 2:40, 4:45, 7, 9:10. The Emperor’s New Groove 10:30, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:35, 8:35. Unbreakable 7:10, 9:50. 102 Dalmations 11:20, 1:50, 4:45. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 11, 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9. 12/24 NO LATE SHOWS. 12/25 NO EARLY MATINEES.

ETH A N A LLEN C IN EM A S 4 North Avenue, Burlington, 863-6040.

Wednesday 20 — thursday 21 What Lies Beneath 1:30, 6:30, 9:10. Me, Myself and Irene 1:45, 6:45, 9:35.

Bedazzled 2:10, 7:10, 9:30. Almost Famous 2, 7, 9:20. Matinees Sat-Sun

friday 22 — tuesday 26 Meet the Parents 7, 9:20. Men of Honor 6:40, 9:10. Space Cowboys 6:30, 9:30.

Remember the Titans 6:50, 9:40. Digimon 1, 3. Matinees Sat-Sun only.

What Women Want 1, 3:35, 6:30, 9. Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? 1:20, 3:40, 7, 9:10. Unbreakable 1:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:05. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 8:50. Matinees SatSun only. Late shows Fri-Sat only.

friday 22 — tuesday 26 Castaway* 12:40, 3:35, 6:40, 9:10.

What Women Want 12:50, 3:35, 6:40, 9:10. Hey Dude, Where’s My Car? 1:10, 3:50, 7:10, 9:15. The Grinch Who Stole Christmas 1, 3:45, 7, 9:05. The Emperor's New Groove 12:30, 2:30, 4:15, 6:50, 8:30. CLOSED CHRISTMAS.

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(R) VIRGIN SU ICID ES***'* Based on the

1993 best-seller by Jeffrey Eugenides, Sofia Coppola's warmly received drama tells the story of five beautiful sisters who grow up in suburban Michigan during the ’7 0s and eventually commit five-way suicide. Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett star. (R)

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“I’m not going to disclose those,” said Salt Walter.

For the record, like Ruth Dw yer, How ard D ean and Ethan A lle n , Speaker-in-Waiting Freed is a flatlander. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His dad first moved the family to Woodstock, Vermont, said Walt, and then when N e lso n R o c k e fe lle r was elected governor of New York, the Freed family headed for what Walts dad thought would be the economic promised land — Granville, New York, a “stones throw” from Pawlet, Vermont, he noted.

Walt’s father was a salesman in those days, working out of White River Junction. “My dad thought upstate New York would blossom and grow with a Republican governor,” recalled Walt. “He used to kid us. He’d say, ‘I moved you out of Woodstock, a small Vermont vil­ lage without much economic opportunity, to buy a business in upstate New York. About the same time we got there, instead of Rockefeller expanding the opportunities in upstate New York, he made the whole place into a park!”’

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New L e a d e rsh ip — With Salt Walter moving up from Republican leader to House Speaker, the assistant GOP leader, John L a b a rg e of Grand Isle, won the race for top dog in the Republican caucus over the weekend. And C o n n ie Houston of Ferrisburgh got the nod to be assistant leader.

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Earlier this month, the new House minority caucus reelected Tracy and P a tric ia D oyle of Richmond as its leadership team.

The pair ran unopposed. This year John and Patty will be

spending a lot more time hanging out in the cafeteria, since the Republicans will be occupying the speakers office.

Though he never gets men­ tioned on the lists of rising politi­ cal stars, John Patrick Tracy is penciled in on ours. The Springfield, Vermont, native was spotted early in the game as an ambitious man with a plan.

Speaker of the House?

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Statehouse veterans noticed early that John-John was putting a lot of effort into crafting an image and being liked. His polit­ ical enemies question his depth and say he reflects style over sub­ stance.

Now it’s show time.

In the coming session, JohnJohn steps out from under the shadow of Speaker Obuchowski and gets to play Democrat top dog all by himself. When Speaker Freed makes a point, Democrat Tracy will be the one to make the counterpoint. His moment has arrived. This session will be his test.

If John-John passes, he’ll move onward and upward on the Vermont political stage.

If he flunks, well, he can always go back to bartending at Nectar’s.

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As usual, Ch. 3 (WCAX) and Ch. 5 (WPTZ) slugged it out for an elusive supremacy. Once again, Ch. 5 is on top in the Burlington-Plattsburgh metro area. And, once again, Ch. 3 is king in the overall market, the DMA, that includes all Vermont plus three New York counties and a little piece of northern New Hampshire. What’s new in the latest book is that Ch. 3 took a significant chunk out of Ch. 5’s metro lead and put its own nose back in front in the DMA market at 11 o’clock.

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cosm ic Christmas Good luck finding an old-fashioned holi­ day celebration that predates the solstice shindig thrown by the folks in The Unified Pagan Community of Central Vermont. The Montpelier-based group invites you to ring in the winter season with a Yule Circle. Featured activities include “c a ll­ ing the God and Goddess,” chanting and lots of wild dancing.

Thursday, Decem ber 2 1 . State House lawn, M ontpelier, 6 :3 0 p.m . Free. Info, 223-9972.

slice of life There’s a little Italy, so to speak, in many an American city, and Burlington is no exception. Before the “urban renewal” that gave rise to the Radisson, the Queen City was a lot more ethnically diverse. As part of the Champlain Senior Center’s ongoing lecture series, local paisan and history buff Joe Maietta offers a photo show and oral tour of Italian neighbor­ hoods that have sprung up — and been torn down — across town throughout the years. A pizza history, you might say.

Thursday, Decem ber 2 1 . Champlain Sen ior Center, Burlington, 11 a. m. Free.

Info, 658-3585.

hot to trot Dashing through the snow — is there a better way to be at one with the winter?

We recommend laughing all the way — by car — to Shelburne Farms, where the energies of their Belgian draft horses have been harnessed for scen ic sleigh rides. Yeah, you wish that was grand­ mother’s house on 1400 lakefront acres.

Catch a ride every half hour, daily through the second day of January and on week­ ends through February.

Friday, Decem ber 2 2 , through Tuesday, January 2 . Shelburne Farms, S h el­ burne, 11 a.m . - 2 p.m . $3-5. Info, 985-8442.

wonder women Founded 12 years ago in Glover, the Expanding Secret Company has performed its provocative movement-based feminist pieces in Vermont, New York City and San Francisco. Under the direction of choreo­ grapher Tamar Schumann Thorne — yes, they’re related — the company presents its latest dance theater melodrama, “Shed,” which juxtaposes the lives of bit­ ter, bored cow girls with those of female superheroes fighting to save the world from capitalism . You gotta see i t . . .

Saturday, Decem ber 2 3 . P lainfield Community Center, 8 p.m . $5-8. Info, 454-4662.

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It’s the day after Christmas and all through the house are all sorts of every­ day objects which can be transformed into toys that fly, buzz, honk, dive and roll through the magic of creative recycling.

As part of its “Dashing Through December” family series, the Scien ce Center offers a workshop on turning odds and ends into fun and games, along with the opportunity to take home sk ills, ideas and stories to share with family and friends.

Tuesday, Decem ber 2 6 . Lake Champlain Basin S cie n ce Center, Burlington, 12:302 :3 0 p.m . $ 3 . Info, 864-1848.

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MAIN STREET QUARTET: New Winter The Burlington jazz outfit -featuring* grooves on tunes from their Pael l a ~ Bacon wr a p p e d Fi l e t - Es car got new disc, Merry Christmas.

Mapl e Caj un Fr i e d Chi cken Barnes & Noble, S. Burling­ Lobs t er Qu e s a d i l l a ton, 6 p.m. Free. Info, 864-8001.

D i n i n g Hi o o m SOLSTICE CONCERT: A We dne s day ~ S a t u r d a y founding member of M anhattan Transfer, Laurel S u n d&y B r u n c h Masse celebrates the longest S a l o o n Menu, N i g h t l y night o f the year with an evening of song and story.

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‘TH E MUSIC M A N ’: In this recently revived Broadway musical, con-man extraordi­ naire Harold Hill turns trouble in River City to his own advantage. Briggs Opera House, W hite River Junction, 2 & 7 p.m. $15-24. Info, 291-9009.

film ‘FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI’: Taiwanese director H ou Hsiao-hsien focuses on late 19th-century Shanghai broth­ els and the illusory nature o f filmmaking. C atam ount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 748-2600.

art • Also, see exhibit openings in the art listings.

FIGURE DRAWING: The hum an figure motivates aspir­ ing and accomplished artists in a weekly drawing session on the second floor o f the Fire­ house Gallery, 135 C hurch St., Burlington, 6-8:30 p.m. $3-6.

Info, 865-7165.

kids STORY TIME: STORY TIME: Little listeners enjoy tall tales. Pierson Library, Shelburne, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Free. Info, 985-5124.

STORY A N D CRAFT TIM E: Preschoolers aged 3 to 6 dabble in designs and drama. Fletcher

Free Library, Burlington, 1010:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

etc MACINTOSH COM PUTER USERS MEETING: Appleheads unite for an informative session at the Gailor School, 4066 Shelburne Rd., Shel­ burne, 7-9 p.m. Free. Info, 849-6742.

HEALTH LECTURE: Learn how to get fit — fast — at a talk entitled “H alf H our to Better H ealth.” Chiropractic Works, Burlington, 5:20 p.m.

Free. Info, 864-5000.

BATTERED W O M E N ’S SUPPORT GROUP: W omen Helping Battered W om en facil­ itates a group in Burlington, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 6581996.

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‘M USIC IN TH E MALL’: The N orth Avenue Alliance C hurch Choir harmonizes for the holidays at the University Mall, S. Burlington, 7-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-1066.

C O U N TER PO IN T HOLI­ DAY CONCERT: T he singing group samples merry music , from around the world, under the baton o f acclaimed conduc­ tor Robert DeCormier. See “to do” list, this issue. UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $14. Info, 877-481-0303.

CAROL SING: Share seasonal stories and traditional carols at a celebratory singing session.

Stowe C om m unity Church, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 253-7792, OPEN MIKE: Strum, sing or say your piece at the Kept W riter Bookshop, St. Albans, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 527-6242.

drama ‘TH E M USIC M A N’: See December 20, 7 p.m.

film ‘FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI’: See December 20.

art • See exhibit openings in the art listings.

words ‘LIVE N U D E W O R D S’: Organizers assure this literary event will be “in the spirit o f the poetry slam, minus the rules, the points and the com ­

petition.” Club M etronome, Burlington, 7 p.m. $3-6. Info, 862-9198.

POETRY W ORKSHOP: Local poet David Weinstock shares writing tips with aspir­ ing authors. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 1 p.m.

Free. Info, 388-7523.

kids SO N G A N D STORYTIME: Threes are company at this singing read-along for babies and toddlers. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

etc HISTORY TALK: Joe M aietta discusses Burlington’s oncevibrant Italian section in an illustrated talk about the old neighborhood. See “to do” list, this issue. M cClure M ultiGenerational Center, Burling­ ton, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 658-3585.

YULE CIRCLE: Warmly dressed worshippers join a cir­ cle and dance to m ark the shortest day o f the year. See “to do” list, this issue. State House lawn, Montpelier, 6:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 223-8972.

W INTER SOLSTICE CELE­ BRATION: Bring a light or lantern to a bonfire sharing o f thoughts and stories about snow and cold. VINS N orth Branch Nature Center, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 229-6206.

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: Yule be amazed by the elaborate electrical displays at the Vermont State Fairgrounds, Rutland, 5-9 p.m. $5 per vehi­ cle. Info, 775-6887.

music • Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.”

C O U N T E R PO IN T HOLI­ DAY CONCERT: See December 21, Barre Opera House.

‘M USIC IN TH E MALL’: Lunchtim e shoppers get a lift from holiday music courtesy of the M ilton H igh School Chorus. University Mall, S. Burlington, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-1066.

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AND peaceful existence is trans­ formed by the appearance o f a mysterious woman. Cata­ m ount Arts, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6. Info, 748-2600.

BATTERED W O M E N ’S SUPPORT GROUP: Battered W omen’s Services and Shelter facilitates a group in Barre, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 223-0855.

art • See exhibit openings in the art listings.

kids ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’: The No Strings M arionette Company acts out their version of Dickens’ classic Scrooge story with 14 large-scale pup­ pets. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, 2 & 7 p.m. $5.

Info, 388-1436.

etc FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS: See December 21.

SLEIGH RIDES: Belgian draft horses haul you over snow-cov­ ered hills in the spirit o f Christmas past. See “to do” list, this issue. Shelburne Farms Welcome Center, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. $5. Info, 983-8442.

GLBTQ SUPPORT GROUP: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and questioning youth make new friends and get support. O utright Ver­ mont, Burlington, 6:30-9 p.m.

Free. Info, 800-452-2428.

Saturday music

• Also, see listings in “Sound Advice.”

C O U N T E R PO IN T HOLI­ DAY CONCERT: See December 21, Unitarian Church, Rutland.

‘M USIC IN TH E MALL’: Shoppers hear holiday music from the Landed Family at the University Mall, S. Burlington, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3-5 p.m.

Free. Info, 863-1066.

JULIE FROST: The Vermonter-turned-Chicagoan teams up with bassist Brad Sourdiffe to sound songs from her new release, The Wave.

Rose Street Gallery, Burling­ ton, 7 p.m. $5. Info, 863-6705.

HOLIDAY CONCERT: Kick off the holidays with cello and violin duets, a carol sing-along and hot bevvies. Jericho C om m unity Church, 7:30 p.m. $5. Info, 899-5433.

dance ‘SH ED’: The Expanding Secret Com pany’s dance drama juxta­ poses bored, angry cowgirls with anti-capitalistic feminist superheroes. See “to do” list, this issue. Plainfield C om m un­ ity Center, above the Winooski Valley Co-op, 8 p.m. $5-8.

Info, 454-4662.

drama ‘TH E MUSIC M AN’: See December 20.

‘MIS ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS CLAUS’: This light-hearted Christmas come­ dy investigates how Santa got his gig. Vergennes Opera House, 2 & 7 p.m. $10. Info, 655-9050.

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sport WINTER SOLSTICE HIKE: Hikers wielding headlamps or flashlights honor the solstice with the M ontpelier section of the Green M ountain Club. 1 p.m. Free. Register, 655-3071.

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OVEREATERS ANONY­ MOUS: Addicted to eating?

CHURCH STREET HOLI­ DAY CELEBRATION: See

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CHRISTMAS EVE DIN­ NER: Addison C ounty resi­ dents sit down to a meal and merrim ent on the house.

Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, Bristol, 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 453-4825.

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Lake Champlain Basin Science Center, Burlington, 12:302:30 p.m. $3. Info, 864-1848.

December 26. Kids bring a bendable branch to create a Native American-inspired dreamcatcher.

WINTER TALES: Storyteller Tracy C hipm an spins coldweather yarns for listeners aged 5 and up. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11 a.m. Free. Register, 865-7216.

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Bring a dish to share with local folks at an eat-in with entertainment. Plainfield C om m unity Center, above the Winooski Valley Co-op, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 454-8579.

HEALTH LECTURE: See December 20.

BATTERED WOMEN’S SUPPORT GROUP: See December 20.

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Chinese medical theory and Asian bodywork to enhance health and pro­ mote recovery.

5:3 0 p .m . B u rlin g to n . $ 1 2 . Info, 6 5 8 -0 6 5 8 . Stuart Paton teaches d jem -

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technical camera and darkroom skills while learning to “see” w ith a photo­ graphic eye.

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speaker by learning how to pick, pre­ pare and incorporate stories into your speeches.

psychology D E A L IN G W I T H D E P R E S S IO N : E ig h t W ednesdays sta rtin g Ja n u a ry 3, 7 -9 p .m . 119 S. W in o o sk i Ave., B u rlin g to n , $15 p e r class. In fo , 6 5 8 5 8 8 8 . Develop creativity, community

and the “courage to change” while you “blow your winter blues. ” A D O LESC EN TS — SECRETS O N H O W T O RELATE T O Y O U R T E E N A G E R : S aturday, Ja n u a ry 13, 9 a .m .-3 p .m . C o m m u n ity C o lleg e o f V erm o n t, B u rlin g to n . $ 5 0 . Register, 8 6 5 -4 4 2 2 . Learn ways to alleviate

stress in parent-teen relationships while developing skills to resolve difficult fa m ­ ily situations.

self-defense B A S IC S E L F -D E F E N S E : Satu rd ay s, Ja n u a ry 6, 13, & 2 0 , 9-11 a.m . All classes at C o m m u n ity C o lleg e o f V erm o n t, B u rlin g to n . $ 5 0 . Register, 8 6 5 -4 4 2 2 . Learn skills and strategies to

increase personal safety, avoid conflict and defend yourselffrom assault.

B R A Z IL IA N J I U - J I T S U A N D C A R D IO B O X IN G : O n g o in g classes fo r m en , w o m e n a n d c h ild ren , M o n d a y th ro u g h S aturday. V e rm o n t Brazilian Jiu -Jitsu A cadem y, 4 H o w ard St., B u rlin g to n . In fo , 6 6 0 4 0 7 2 . Escape fear w ith an integrated

self-defense system based on technique, not size, strength or speed.

spirit H E A L IN G C IR C L E : T uesdays,

support groups OVEREATERS A N O N Y M O U S: D a ily m ee tin g s in v a rio u s lo catio n s.

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A L C O H O L IC S A N O N Y M O U S : D a ily m ee tin g s in v ario u s lo catio n s.

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Journey welcomes all survivors regard­ less o f when the assault took place.

women ‘C R E A T IN G J O Y A N D A B U N ­ D A N C E ’: Ja n u a ry 18, 2 4 , F eb ru ary 1 , 8 , 15 a n d 2 2 . W o m e n s Sm all B usiness P ro g ram , T rin ity C ollege, B u rlin g to n . $ 1 1 5 , g ra n ts available.

In fo , 8 4 6 -7 1 6 0 . Learn how to elim i­

nate barriers and achieve your goals.

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W o m e n H e lp in g B attered W o m e n , B u rlin g to n . In fo , 6 5 8 -3 1 3 1 . Volunteers get trained to assist on the hotline, in the shelter, working w ith children or in court.

Ja n u a ry 9 a n d F e b ru a ry 13, 7 :1 5 -9 p .m . B ody M in d C o n n e c tio n , 119 S. W in o o sk i Ave., B u rlin g to n . $ 8. In fo , 6 5 8 -5 8 8 8 . Guided visualization,

Reiki, crystals and music promote heal­ ing in sm all groups.

‘C O U R S E I N M IR A C L E S ’ S T U D Y G R O U P : T h u rsd a y , D e ce m b er 2 8 , 6-8 p .m . S p irit D a n c e r B ooks, 125 S.

woodworking C R E A T IV E F U R N I T U R E M A K ­ I N G : T uesdays a n d T h u rsd a y s, Ja n u a ry 9 -2 5 , 6 :3 0 -9 :3 0 p .m .

Y esterm o rro w S ch o o l, W arre n . $ 4 0 0 .

In fo , 8 8 8 - 4 9 6 -5 5 4 1 . Learn to repro­

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W in o o sk i, B u rlin g to n . D o n a tio n s .

Info, 6 6 0 -8 0 6 0 . Apply the “Course’s ”

main thought system to everyday experi­ ences through exercises and guided med­ itation.

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Photos include a five-page analysis and personal reading by Linda Wiggins.

Aura videos are $30 and include nar­ ration.

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yoga ‘B E C O M I N G P E A C E Y O G A ’: O n g o in g classes. Essex J e t. In fo , 8 7 8 5 2 9 9 . Release chronic tension, gain self-

awareness and honor your inner wis­ dom through Kripalu-style yoga study.

B E E C H E R H I L L Y O G A : O n g o in g d a y tim e &C ev en in g classes fo r all lev­ els. In fo , 4 8 2 -3 1 9 1 o r h illyoga@ sover.net. Get private or group instruction in prenatal yoga, integrative yoga therapy or gentle yoga fo r recovery and rehabilitation.

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B u rlin g to n . In fo , 6 6 0 -9 7 1 8 o r y o g a v e rm o n t.c o m . Ashtanga-style

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who m ight like a refresher. Experience the satisfaction o f catching sport fish on flies you have tied.

S P I N N I N G : O n g o in g daily classes.

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SMOKERS Healthy Women and Men 18-45 for cigarette smoking study at UVM

COMPENSATION UP TO $240 If you are available on 3 days for 1 hour, and 1 w eek M-F, 3 times per day for about 5 minutes in the morning, afternoon & evening.

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STOW E IS TH E PLACE TO BE TH IS W INTER! Excellent recreational benefits including free skiing/boarding, lessons, and great resort discounts. We are still hiring for the follow ing seasonal positions: • Custodians • Housekeepers • Help D esk Support • Front Desk Clerk • Administrative Assistant • Snow m aking Plant Operators The follow ing are full-time year round positions: • Telecommunications Technician • Lift Electrician If you have the desire to enhance your expertise and work in an environment that promotes fun, ap ply today! For more information or to send a resume, please contact:

Stowe Mountain Resort - Human Resources 5781 Mountain Road, Stowe, VT 05672 (802 ) 2.53-3541 (802 ) 253-3544 (f) www.stowe.com

►employment Hudson Distributors is seeking a reliable independent worker to set up magazine displays in stores. Work Monday & Tuesday mornings in the Chittenden county area.

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The Urban Salon Team is looking for a stylist and/or aesthetician to join our team. We offer: • competitive pay scale • a great work environment • continuing education • benefits package If you are looking to increase your clientele (or start one), come check us out and introduce yourself.

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LUNCH SPINNER FREE, EVERY PAY! We serve delicious staff lunches and dinners everyday - not to mention we offer GREA T benefits, great pay, and a fun place to work.

WAITSTAFF-FT OR PT, Breakfast and dinner shifts available.

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LINE COOK-FT, 1+ yrs. fine dining experience preffered.

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RETAIL CLERK - PT. YR, Sun-Tues, days, previous cash register experience a must.

MAINTENANCE - FT, YR, Includes weekends, mus t be able to lift 50+ lbs. and have valid drivers license, snow/trash removal, general repairs

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ONLINE COURSE DEVELOPMENT — Support Role

W e are looking for several talented individuals to join UVM's Digital Media Development Lab online course development team. The ideal candidate needs solid HTML skills, graphic sensibility, experience with Photoshop and Image Ready. W e are looking for someone with strong web research skills and the ablility to work with UVM faculty members as they put their courses online. At present, this is a wages positions and is not eligible for UVM benefits.

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WEEKENPS REOUIREP FOR ALL POSITIONS! ^ KILLER BENEFITS available for full-time, YR employees. All employees get free shift meals, skiing, use of fitness center, discounts.

Apply to: Trapp Family Lodge, Human Resources, P0 Box 1428, Stowe, VT 05672 Ph: 802.253.5713 fax: 802.253.5757 EOE www.trappfamily.com

For more information, please call Howard Davis, 6 5 6 -0379 or email your resume to howard.davis@uvm.edu

DENTAL HYGIENIST O u r St. Albans based prevention oriented general Dental practice is searching for a dental hygienist w ho is warm , friendly, and a dedicated professional with exceptional verbal skills.

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Professional, expe­ rienced individual.

Possessing enthusi­ asm and knowl­ edge of fine wine & food.

Apply after 5pm at Trattoria Delia, 152 St Paul St. 864-5253.

Network Manager mployee-owned Gardener's Supply Company, America's leading E catalog and web-based gardening company is looking for a dynamic individual to lead our fast-paced network team.

The Network Manager will supervise and guide the activities of a team of network professionals, establish team priorities, manage complex projects and help-desk activities, and make recommendations to management about the well being of our network.

Responsibilities include oversight of help-desk activities, server and desktop platforms, voice and data network infrastructure and related hardware and software. Our network includes UNIX and Windows-based platforms from leading vendors Microsoft and Compaq and network hardware from Cisco, 3COM, Adtran and Nortel.

Candidates must have 3+ years experience supervising technical personnel in a fast-paced business environment. Leadership skills, a team orientation and the desire to have and create fun are essential.

Superior technical skills with Windows, UNIX, and/or TCP/IP internet working are required. Voice networking (Nortel) and e-commerce experience is highly desirable. MCSE and/or CCNE certification is a definite plus.

I f you are interested in this exciting opportunity, send resume with cover letter to Deirdre:

128 Intervale Road, Burlington, VT 05401 or via e-mail: deirdreg@gardeners.com

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Northlands is presently seeking candidates for the following positions: Residential Advisor: Full-time and substitute positions supervising students in dormitories during leisure time hours.

Must have diploma/GED and the commitment to making positive and dramatic changes in the lives of youth. $8.90/hr+.

Security Officer: Responsible for enforcing all laws, rules, and policies authorized by the Security Department Diploma/GED required, experience working with youth preferred.

Human Resources Assistant: Administrative/derical posi­ tion. Responsible for various HR duties. Must be proficient with word processing and spreadsheet software applications. Basic knowledge of EEO and AAP required. HS diploma or G ED plus one year administrative experience. Previous HR experience high­ ly preferred Qualified applicants please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to: C areer Systems Developm ent Corporation,

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To be sure, manufacturing plastic bags imposes costs of its own. But never mind that. Framing the answer in this way suggests you’ve already made a fatal assumption.

people, you use the store’s bags, the real question is which is easier for you to reuse, and the answer depends on your personal situation. City guy that I am, I need some of both: paper bags that I can fill with cans and leave out in the alley for the aluminum scavengers, and plastic so I can pick up the deposits my neighbors’ dogs constantly leave on my lawn.

— CECIL ADAMS

Q: Which is?

A: That whichever bag you get is going to be discarded immediately. The whole point of recycling is to reuse things rather than toss them out. Purists say you should bring your own cloth tote bags rather than use the store-supplied ones — easier said than done if you’re buying the week’s groceries for a big family. If, like most

Nigel in D. C. Seems like such a simple question; wish I could give you a simple answer. Unfortunately, as happens so often these days, all I can say is: it depends.

Qj On what?

A: Well, for starters, on whether you’re asking me while I’m in the checkout line or the john.

Q: The checkout line, o f course.

A: It still depends. The knee-jerk answer given by the 50ways-to-save-the-Earth crowd is that paper grocery bags are better than plastic because paper is renewable and biodegradable. But the plastics industry and others point out that (a) paper bags are often made from virgin timber, which, if not exactly nonrenewable, is not easily replaced; (b) papermaking typically requires toxic chemicals and gen­ erates pollutants; (c) the sheer mass of material required for a given quantity of bags is much greater for paper than

Is there something you need to get straight? Cecil Adams can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Write Cecil Adams at the Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago, IL 60611, or e-mail him at cecil@chireader.com.

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► employment O rganist -C ho ir m a ster All Saints Episcopal Church seeks organist-choirmaster for Sunday worship (10 am) and occasional other services such as Holy Week, Easter, Christmas, weddings and funerals. Hours, including staff meetings, are between 6-8 per week. Job requirements: organ skills, training and conducting choirs (adult, folk mass group and possile childrens’ choir), coordi­ nating volunteer musicians.

Competitive salary is negotiable based on expereience; wedding and funeral fees are extra.

The Urban Salem Team is seeking a motivated

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and energetic esthetician to be part of our team.

Education-package and great work environment.

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Burlington law firm seeks an energetic individual with legal experience.

Word processing, transcription, organization and com m unication skills required. Com petitive salary, health insurance, 401k plan, and parking provided. Send resume and cover letter to Bauer, Anderson & Gravel, PO Box 607, Burlington, VT 05402; or fax to 864-7779.

BREAKFAST COOK starting mid-January at two of Burlington’s historic inns. 4 days per week 6am-2pm.

Call 651-8710 to set up an interview.

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This individual will provide software training, troubleshooting support, testing, and process docu­ mentation. S/he will perform software administration functions and ensure reliable operation o f everal mission critical database products (SQL Server, Access).

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Contact Vicki Pozzebon 862-4223 DEPARTMENT SALON is look­ ing for a part-time massage therapist. Flexible hours.

Please call 6 60-9428, leave message.

EXTRAS/ACTORS- Up to $500 a day! All looks needed. Call for info 800-260-3949 ext.

3 0 2 5 . (AAN CAN) FITNESS Experienced Personal Trainer needed for downtown health club on the Waterfront. Established clientele/great atmosphere. Call Charlene, 864-2348.

FULL-TIME SALESPERSON needed. Must have experience in sales, be outgoing, multitasked, and able to work with a fast-paced team. Send resume to: 142 W. Twin Oaks Terrace, So. Burlington, VT, 0 5 4 0 3 . Attn: Leslie Averill.

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INTERNET & DATABASE software developers. Excellent salary, bonuses, benefits & work environment. 6 Degrees Software,176 Battery St., Burlington, VT 0 5 401. www.6degrees.com PART-TIME PERSON wanted for small office. Basic com­ puter and bookkeeping skills.

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MASSAGE THERAPIST need­ ed at busy salon/spa. Existing clients. Need therapist to occupy a lovely, quiet room.

Call 388-1177 for details.

YOU PRODUCE needed build­ ing materials locally. 300% profit. Full or Part-Time. 30 years of success, www.tiffanymarble.com. Call 800-6549093 for free video.

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MASON BROTHERS ARCHI­ TECTURAL SALVAGE is seek­ ing an enthusiastic, goodhumored, strong and responsi­ ble individual to wear many hats. Plus or minus full time flex time possible. Compet­ itive wages. Some experience with retail, construction and/or antiques preferred. Mail resume and letter of interest to 11 Maple St., Essex Jet., VT 0 5 452.

WILDERNESS CAMP Counselor. Hike the App­ alachian Trail. Canoe the Suwanee. Help at-risk youth.

Paid training. Free room/ board. Clothing allowance.

Excellent salary/benefits.

Details/application: www.eckerd.org. (AAN CAN)

► announcements YOUR CLASSIFIED AD printed in more than 100 alternative papers like this one for just $95 0.0 0 ! To run your ad in papers with a total circulation exceeding 6 .5 million copies per week, call Josh at Seven Days, 8 64-5684. No adult ads. (AAN CAN)

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ACTING TALENT NEEDED. Two up-and- coming filmmak­ ers looking for enthusiastic individuals for short projects.

No experience necessary.

Contact Andrew or Dave: 8645875 or Jonas33@aol.com.

► automotive AFFORDABLE CAR REPAIRS! Won't start? Won’t stop? Too rusty for inspection? Had an accident? I can help! Count­ less used parts available. Call Paul at 863-8039.

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BARTENDERS: Make $100$250 per night. No experi­ ence necessary’. Call 1-800981-8168 ext. 5000.

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this Y e a r ' s Horrendous xmas retail season could spell DOOM For this struggling,

► sp a ce for rent BURLINGTON: Hill section office space avail, for FT pri­ vate practitioner in healing profession. Handicap accessi­ ble, free parking. Call Pat, 860-8441.

BURLINGTON: Office space avail. Jan. 1. for massage therapist within chiropractic practice. 225 sq. ft., private entrance, free parking, across from Fletcher Allen & UVM. Call Suzy at 8 63-5828.

MIDDLEBURY: Commercial rentals. 1-3 small buildings, 13-15 Washington St., across from Grand Union. Will reno­ vate or restore for your store, office or business. 425-5000.

MILTON: 1,400 sq. ft. com­ mercial space in historical area on Main Street. Will work with tenant to suit needs. Call 893-1138.

S. BURLINGTON: Healing/ counseling space avail, in Holistic Center for practitioner.

Start immed. 170 sq. ft. plus kitchen/waiting area, rest -#t* rooms, parking, phone, utils. & other benefits inch Rent varies w/usage. First & last, sub lease. 8 65-2756.

► housing for rent BURLINGTON: 2 Bedroom. $800/mo., includes heat.

Near Church & King. No dogs.

Newly renovated. Avail. Jan. 1. Deposit required. Call 6 60-4347.

BURLINGTON: LaFountain St. Spacious 2-bdrm., ground fir., gas heat, new paint, nonsmoker preferred. $575/mo. + utils. Lease, security dep., refs. 8 62-3719.

BURLINGTON: Semi-furnished ^ efficiency, large tile bathroom, off-street parking, avail. Jan. 1 to May 1. $495/mo. Call 652-9099 anytime.

MORETOWN: LARGE 3-BDRM HOUSE overlooking Mad River, oii/wood heat, storage, laundry, privacy, yard, conve­ nient to village, $ 1200/mo.

Moretown Real Estate 496 -39 8 0 .

SO. DUXBURY: COTTAGE, easy access, near Harwood Union H .S ., Route 100, yard, garden, brook, sleeping loft, gas heat, $550/mo. + refs., ideal for single person.

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► housemates BURLINGTON: Prof. F seeks prof, or grad student, M or F, NS, to share great 2 bdrm. apt. in So. End. Dead­ end street, nearby park, 2 nd floor. $365/mo. inch heat & water. 864-3098 BURLINGTON: GWM seeks prof., male, roommate, must be clean, quiet, non-smoker, non-drinker, must like dogs, spacious apt., $425/mo. + dep., low utils., contact Tim at 8 64-7187.

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THE REAL STORY BEHIND “eSECRET RECALLS”

th e safety p ro b lem is o n th e m an u fa ctu re r, so this do esn ’t alw ays h a p p e n , o r d oesn’t always h a p p e n in a tim ely m a n n e r — see F irestone tires — b u t it’s su p p o sed to.)

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Dear Tom a n d Ray: M ost car manufacturers have a list o f defects that they w ill f ix fo r free or a t reduced cost i f the consumer complains enough. They aren’t publicized, and the manufacturers don’t w ant you to know about them.

I ’ve heard these referred to as "secret recalls." Is there a good way to f in d out about such recalls?

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sion s-related defect, th e E n v iro n m e n ta l P ro te ctio n A gency requires th e m to n o ti­ fy car o w ners a n d fix th e p ro b le m at n o cost. So any defects th a t relate to safety or em issions c a n n o t, by law, be secret.

T O M : B ut th a t still leaves a lo t o f defects.

RAY: A n d in th e rest o f th e cases (o r at least 99 o u t o f 100 o f th e m ), th e m a n u fa c tu re r

RAY: I f th ere was a g o o d w ay to fin d o u t a b o u t th e m , th ey w o u ld n ’t b e secret, now , w o u ld they, T im ?

T O M : H e re ’s th e story, T im .

F ro m tim e to tim e, m a n u fa c ­ tu rers discover (o r a d m it) th a t so m e p a rt o f a car th e y m ad e is defective. N ow , if it’s a safe­ ty -related c o m p o n e n t, th e y are re q u ire d b y law to n o tify car o w n ers a n d fix th e p ro b le m fo r free. ( O f co u rse, in th e real w o rld , th e o n u s o f re p o rtin g

issues w h a t it calls a T echnical Service B ulletin, o r T S B , to let dealers a n d o th e r rep air p eople k n o w h o w to address a specif­ ic p ro b lem . N o t all T SB s are covered b y w a rra n ty — som e are ju s t tip s o r suggestions on h o w to fix th in g s. B u t in som e cases, dealers o r m an u fa ctu re rs will regularly a u th o rize a "goodw ill a d ju s tm e n t" to cover th e cost o f fixing th e j p ro b lem , b u t o n ly i f y o u ask.

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Carpool Connection Call 864-CCTA to respond to a listing or to be listed.

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am looking for a ride from Shelburne Rd. to the University Mall. I work Monday through Sunday and would like a ride anytime between 8 a.m. and

need a ride from Maple St. in Winooski to the Fairfield Inn. I work Tu., Th. & Sat. at 8 am. (40055)

ST. ALBANS to ESSEX I need a ride to IBM. I need to be to work between 7:30 am & 9:30 am. (40056)

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COLCHESTER to IBM: I need a round-trip ride from Colchester to Essex Jet., M-F, 8 am4:30 pm. (40050)

MORRISVILLE to ESSEX. I need a ride to IBM. I work from 7 pm-7 am. (40057)

WATERBURY to IBM: I need a round-trip ride from Waterbury to Essex Jet. I work from 7 am-7 pm. (40051)

BURL, to S. BURL. I need a ride to Sears at the University Mall. I work Sun.-Sat. from 6 am-2 pm. (40058)

RICHMOND P&R to ST. MICHAEL’S COLL.

WATERBURY to MONTPELIER. My

I am hoping to share driving on my com­ mute to work, my hours are 7:15 am-5 pm, M-Th. (3271)

hours are 7 am-3 pm.

I am flexible & looking for a ride M-F. (40045)

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S. BURLINGTON to ESSEX JCT. I am look­ ing for a ride to IBM from S. Burlington. I work M-F, 8 am-4:30 pm. (40038)

JOHNSON to STOWE. I am looking for a ride from Johnson to Stowe. I work M-F, 7 am-3:30 pm. (40026)

WINOOSKI to MORRISVILLE: I am looking for a ride. I work Tues., Weds. & Fri. from 8 am to 3 pm. (40029)

CABOT to WILLISTON: I am looking for a ride or to share driving from the Cabot/ Montpelier area. I work 20 hrs./wk. & am very flexible. (40034)

need a ride to IBM. I work the N8 shift.

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IBM from 7 pm to 7 am. Wed.-Sat.(40027)

y o u r car’s info a n d get a list o f A ll-D ata’s T SB s fo r y o u r car.

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Got a question about cars?

Write to Click and Clack in care o f this newspaper, or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talk section ofcars.com on the World Wide Web.

VANPOOl RIDERS WANTED p o lit e - fr o m : Burlington & Richmond Commuter L o i S f o : Montpelier

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MALLETS BAY: Housemate to share 4-bdrm. house. $350/mo. + split utils. Can give two bdrms. Call for house details. Richard, 658-2906.

S. BURLINGTON: Avail.

12/16 or 1/1. Room in nice condo near U-mall to share with quiet, laid-back medita­ tor. Musicians welcome, w/d. $380/mo. + 1/2 utils.

283-4333.

SO. BURLINGTON: Give your­ self a gift. Extra large unfur­ nished room in owner occu­ pied 3 level townhouse. $480/mo. includes utils, look­ ing for non-smoking, mature, upbeat woman to enjoy space with teacher and one cat who refuses to live with another pet. Pool, tennis, bike path, trail through woods. Avail, immediately. Call 863-9592.

► housemates BURLINGTON: GWM seeks prof., male, roommate, must be clean, quiet, non-smoker, non-drinker, must like dogs, spacious apt., $425/mo. + dep., low utils., contact Tim at 864- 71 8 7.

BURLINGTON: 2 guys looking for roommate for 3 bedroom.

Downtown location, 2 blocks from Church Street. Spacious, no pets, hardwood floors, gas heat. $300/mo. +1/3 utils.

Call 865-3771.

BURLINGTON: Looking for roommate to fill funky 2 -bed­ room, Crombie St. apt. Nice and spacious, great back yard, gas stove/heat, limited parking avail., good neighbors, quiet neighborhood. Professional preferred. Non-Smoker, no pets. $350/mo+dep 1/2 Utils, avail. 1/01. 864-0260 BURLINGTON: Mature person wanted in quiet 2 bedroom.

Awesome apt. in great loca­ tion. $425/mo. Includes heat, hot water and off-street park­ ing. Call 660-9833 or dougybuddy@yahoo.com.

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December 21-27 ARIES (M ar. 2 1 -Apr. 19);

tro lo g ers c o n sid er y o u r trib e :o be d e ad last in th e z o d iac’s best g a rd en e r” rankings,

H a p p y H o ly D aze, Aries! I m ed itated on w h a t h o lid ay gifts m ig h t m o tiv a te y o u to take m ax im u m ad v antage o f y o u r astrological o p p o rtu n itie s in

u d g in g fro m th e astrological com )? It teaches asp irin g sleu th s to

aspects in late 2 0 0 0 an d th e first h a lf o f 2 0 0 1 , how ever, I believe

pesky little dem o n s o f u n w a n ted

h o n e th e ir ob serv atio n al p ow ers an d m eticu lo u sly g ath er evidence. G iven

y o u ’ve alread y been possessed by a fertility g o d o r goddess. (D o n ’t w orry:

2 0 0 1 . H ere’s w h a t I cam e up w ith . 1, A n a n tiq u e slot m ach in e. It w o u ld

o th e r sign. T h e great new s is th a t 2001 will be a b re ak -o u t year for you,

m e d ita tin g on w h a t sym bolic ho lid ay gift m ig h t help you w ard o ff th e

serve as a sy m b o lic sta te m e n t th a t all

m e a n in g y o u ’ll have extra im p e tu s to

o f y o u r im pulsive risks a n d o d d s-are-

shed a u to m a tic beh av io r a n d escape

th o u g h ts in 2 0 0 1 . Ideally, th is b o o n

th e tan ta lizin g m ysteries y o u ’ll

It’s a m o stly b e n ev o len t, n o t d e m o n ­

stack ed -ag ain st-y o u gam bles are th in g s o f th e past. 2. A g o ld en h a m ­

fro m th e spells y o u ’ve been under. To

w o u ld inspire you to keep y o u r sub­

e n c o u n te r in th e c o m in g m o n th s , it

ic, takeover.) T h is m ean s y o u ’re likely

aid y o u r lib e ratio n , I pledge to slip lots o f w ak e-u p calls in to y o u r h o ro ­ scopes in th e c o m in g m o n th s.

stantial m en tal pow ers focused a n d g ro u n d e d . It w o u ld discourage you fro m g ettin g ensnared in 1 0,000 triv­

could be th e p erfect p lay th in g .

to be q u ite p o te n t w h en ev er y o u len d y o u r vibes to th e m ag ic o f sp ro u tin g

CANCER (Ju n e 2 1 -July 22): I

ial diversions, a n d th ereb y allow you

m er to in sp ire you to engage in a refin ed sm ash in g o f taboos. 3. A W o rld P assport (available at w w w .w o rld g o v ern m en t.o rg /d o cp ass, h tm l). It m ig h t p ro d y o u to fulfill th e co sm ic o m en s th a t are suggesting you sh o u ld travel far a n d w ide. 4. T h e

w o u ld never try to talk you in to b e in g as p re d a to ry a n d co ld -b lo o d ed

T h re e Stooges S how er C u rta in , fea­

as a shark. O n th e o th e r h a n d , I ’d d early love fo r y o u to develop a

tu rin g likenesses o f Larry, M o e an d

rougher, to u g h e r d e te rm in a tio n to

C urly: Ju st because y o u ’ll need to be g oofier o n a regular basis m o re th an ever before.

succeed in th is cruel, crazy w orld.

H o w a b o u t if w e w o rk o n m ak in g

SAGITTARIUS

to fully exploit y o u r brillian t a tte n ­

urged y o u to b u y y o u rse lf an engage­

tio n to detail. I th in k I ’ve com e up

m e n t rin g in p re p ara tio n fo r g e ttin g

w ith an object th a t sh o u ld do th e trick: a statu e o f R o d in s “T h e

m arried to y o u rse lf in 2 0 0 1 . W h a t I d id n ’t suggest u n til n o w is th a t a self­

T h in k e r” seated o n a tractor. I f no

w e d d in g ritual w o u ld be an act o f

o n e will b u y it fo r you, give it to yourself.

certain ly in d u ce th e arrival o f a ch al­

y o u m ay b e 10 p e rce n t as p re d ato ry

LIBRA (Sept. 2 3 -O c t. 22):

a n d g row ing. It also suggests y o u r creative o u tp u t a n d ro m a n tic fe cu n d i­ ty will soar to all-tim e h ighs. To n u r­

(Nov. 2 2 -D e c. 21): Last w eek’s h o ro sco p e

tu re th ese w o n d ers, I suggest y o u give y o u rse lf th e g ift o f a h o m e m a d e altar th is h o lid a y season. P ack it w ith sym ­ bols o f lu sh a b u n d a n c e , like packages o f seeds a n d p h o to s o f rain forests.

tran sfo rm ativ e m agic th a t’ll alm o st

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(Feb. 19-M ar. 20):

A re b ird s m o tiv a te d to c h irp th eir

sance o f an existing in tim a te re la tio n ­ ship. In lig h t o f th a t sw eet h o p e , let

lovely m elo d ies fro m th e sheer jo y o f

a n d c o ld -b lo o d ed as a shark? I

A strologer C aro lin e C asey has an

p ro m ise w e’ll stay u tte rly respectful

in terestin g take on th e influence o f

m e offer a suggestion a b o u t w h a t to

b e in g alive a n d as a w ay to im press

T h e c o m in g year m ay b rin g a m o tley

tow ards th e o th e r 9 0 p ercen t o f you

o u r solar system ’s largest planet. She

give y o u rself for th e holidays: tw o

p o te n tia l m ates? M ay b e a little.

p arad e o f exaggeration a n d extrava­

th a t is m o re like a m erm aid , d o lp h in

says th a t J u p ite r’s m essage to us is

ru b b e r duck ies to ensure th a t y o u r

M ostly, th o u g h , th e ir c ro o n in g is a

gance. You c o u ld be offered heaps o f

o r crab. I f y o u ’re gam e fo r try in g this

always, “I will m ake everything big­

th in g s y o u d o n ’t n eed, m ak in g it h a rd

a p p ro ac h in 2 0 0 1 , I suggest you b u y

ger.” T h e p ro p e r response to this invi-

fu tu re to g eth ern ess always inclu d es lots o f p lay tim e, a n d th e u ltim ate

w ay to stak e o u t th e ir tu rf. W e m ig h t

to focus o n th e tru ly valuable b o o n s th a t’ll also be available. W a n t to p re ­

th is h o lid ay gift to inspire you: a

ta tio n /th re a t, C asey suggests, is to

wireless, ra d io -c o n tro lled , heliu m -

b ecom e very clear a b o u t w h a t p arts o f

m an u al fo r creatin g a sp iritu ally vital relatio n sh ip , Jo h n W elw o o d ’s b o o k ,

v e n t th is fu tu re fro m occurring? You

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CAPRICORN (D ec. 22 -

W ith a clear vision o f w h a t y o u really

LEO (July 23-A ug. 22): In m y

d o n ’t w a n t to see grow. T h is will be a key task for you in th e c o m in g

Jan. 19): O n e o f th e blessings I h o p e

dle o f b o rin g c o m m itte e m eetin g s or

n eed a n d a b u rn in g in te n tio n n o t to get d istrac ted by in ferio r o r irrelevant

m ed ita tio n s a b o u t w h a t h o lid ay gifts y o u ’d b e n efit fro m , I keep seeing h o w

m o n th s, L ibra, because J u p ite r’s

an y tim e y o u n e ed to in v o k e m o re c o m m a n d . C o n sid e r g e ttin g y o u rse lf

gifts, y o u will g u id e y o u r fate in th e

crucial it’ll be for you to m ak e b eau ty

p ow er to enlarge an d am plify every­ th in g will be sw eeping th ro u g h y o u r

you can h arv est in 2001 is a gro w in g skill in th e rig h t use o f m em ory.

d irec tio n o f felicitous a b u n d an c e, n o t useless excess.

a m o re ro u tin e p a rt o f y o u r life in

life w ith extra force.

TAURUS (Apr. 2 0 -M a y 20):

force o f y o u r will to n ew h eights.

GEMINI (M ay 2 1 -Ju n e 20): In Jo n R a p p o p o rt’s b o o k , The Secret

2 0 0 1 . A n d I do m ean it ’ll be crucial,

c o n clu d e fro m th is fact th a t sin g in g pro v id es an in stin c tu al w ay to b u ild a n d express au th o rity . T h a t ’s o n e rea­ son I h o p e y o u ’ll b e b e ltin g o u t a lo t m o re tu n e s in 20 0 1 — in th e show er, in th e c ar w h ile d riv in g , in th e m id ­

W h a t w o u ld th a t involve, exactly? O n

a h o m e k arao k e m ac h in e as a h o lid ay

th e on e h a n d , it w o u ld m ean y o u ’d cultivate a stro n g grasp o f histo rical

gift. ®

n o t ju st pleasant. To cultivate o p ti­

SCORPIO (O ct. 23-N ov.

m u m h ealth , y o u ’ll need freq u e n t

21): I k n o w you ad o re enigm as

th e tw ists a n d tu rn s o f y o u r ow n life’s

exposure to d elig h tfu l grace, gorgeous

w ra p p ed w ith in c o n u n d ru m s ,

journey. O n th e o th e r h a n d , you

p attern s; y o u ’d be a keen stu d e n t o f

Behind Secret Societies, h y p n o tis t Jack

elegance a n d p rim al loveliness. I tru st

S corpio. T h e y ’re like soul food for

w o u ld n ’t force every n ew ev en t to be

T ru e is q u o te d as c laim in g th a t he

you have an in tu itiv e sense o f w hich objects a n d experiences will acco m ­

you. B ut 2001 m ay satiate even yo u r

evaluated solely in term s o f w h a t has

voracious hunger. Since y o u ’re liable to see several events th a t you previ­

h a p p en e d in th e past; y o u ’d recognize

You can call Rob Brozsny, day or night for your

already in a lig h t tran ce w h en th ey

a sim ple suggestion to get you sta rt­

ously th o u g h t h a d zero chance o f

co m e to see h im . “I m ain ly fin d

ed: B uy refrigerator m agnets th a t

this h o lid a y season — th e ob ject

m y self d o in g reverse-hypnosis these

replicate F rench Im p ressionist p a in t­

h a p p en in g , I suggest you get y o u rself a h o lid ay gift th a t’ll prepare you: an

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VIRGO (Aug. 23 -S ep t. 22):

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SW PF, 3 2 , SCO RPIO, BORN IN THE YEAR OF the monkey. Fit, athletic & fun-loving, se e k ­ ing honest, trustworthy com panion for a dventures & apres entertainm ent. 5226 SPUNKY, S P F, 3 0 S, SKIER , ACTIVE, ATHLEtic, fun, health-conscious, intuitive, vegetar­ ian, focused. Enjoy traveling, adventure, m ountains. ISO SPM , similar qualities, com ­ m unicative, open, patient, emotionally mature, sensitive,- positive, funny, fit, happy.

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5223______________________________________________________ VEGETARIAN WOMAN, NS, FIT, YOGA PRACTItioner, m editator with inner & outer appeal, se ek s fit, S/DM vegetarian, 4 0 S- 6 0 S, for LTR. Be my best friend, com panion & coworker for social chan ge.5222 ________________________

SEASO N AL MOUNTAIN PARTNER IS SOUGHT by sm iley 2nd yr. teler, ex-10 yr mogul skier, : who’s intelligent, attractive, fit, 27 YO, w/dog. Only if you’re an active teler, skier or boarder, 23-33, healthy, non-tobacco smoker, fun, honest, in Burlington area. 5444____________

SHARE MY ZEST. HAVING LEARNED TO ENjoy life alone, I’d like a companion to share the bright, playful, energetic, aesthetic, cre­ ative aspects of middle-age outdoors, withopen heart & enlightened good-humor.

Perceptive, zaftig DWPF, N S .5218________________

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Attractive, sparkling, SWPF, 51, passionate about travel, adventures, theater and love.

ISO a gentleman who is intelligent, attractive, cultured and rom antic. 5428_________________ SH A M ELESSLY ATTRACTIVE, INTELLIGENT, educated, responsive, (com )passionate, reflective, sophisticated, unpretentious, play­ ful, fit, athletic, traveled, secure, & otherwise m odest, F. Celebrates your integrity, humor, * (irreveren ce, w isdom , intellectual curiosity, I generosity of spirit, 50+. 5420______________________ l

ACTIVE DWF, 51, LIKES CAMPING, CONTRA dancing, snow shoeing, ‘50s rock to classical, and VPR. Seeking NS to share activities and com panionship. Friendship first. Rutland

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LOOKING FOR MR. RIGHT. ATTRACTIVE, petite SWF, 38, 5’4 ”, 105 lbs., long brn./brn.

Enjoys m usic, dancing, romance, passion, kissing, cuddling & loving. ISO attractive, slim SWM, 28-40, for LTR. 5121__________________ I AM 50 YO , SW F, SHORT BRN. HAIR, BLUE eyes. I am on Disability. New to St. Albans. I like reading, taking w alks, playing with my new kitty. 5087 ______________________________ SW F, 3 0 S, AVERAGE TO GOOD LOOKS, NY area, seek s a ‘30s gentleman, kids OK, NS, ND preferable & who is spiritually in-tune w/self, life & most of all GOD! 5082

man Making woman IF YOU CAN REM EMBER WHAT I T S LIKE TO feel totally in love. This in-shape, good-look­ ing SWMP. ISO similar SWF, 27-37, to make a real connection, intimacy, challenges, fun.

Let’s jam! Musical expertise not required!

5 4 2 7 ____________________________________________ MACKEREL SKIES/BLIND DATES: WHAT DO they have in common? O’naturelle (like feeling great) girls give me a write or call! 5425 WANTED: A OUTDOORSY LADY, THAT LIKES gardens, farm anim als, flowers, going to the ocean. Me: A 6’3 ”, 260 lbs., brown haired, good-looking farmer, worldly, strong. 5422 SWM, 22, HONEST, HARDWORKING, CONSIDerate, farmer, fiddler & logger. ISO SF, 20-30, down to earth, who likes to laugh and is willing to snow shoe for tea by the woodsto v e .5 4 2 i_________________________________________ __ IS TH ERE LOVE IN THE WORLD? 34, TALL, attractive, P, creative, unrequited human, m ateless in the urban wilderness. Are you 25-34? Can we build an oasis together?54i7

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5267________________________________________________________ : MONTPELIER GUY WHO CO LLECTS RECORDS in Burlington, works part-time, longtime meditator, like the Aquarian you read in this paper, se ek s F freebird, under 36, friends first. 5266____________________________________________

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NO S EN S E OF HUMOR. GOOD-LOOKING, 5’ 10”, 170 lbs., NS, ND, young 50, but with hair & teeth. Honest, romantic, into con■ certs, Borders, dining, dancing. ISO lady, preferably with hair & te e th .5265________________

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ISO LTR W/ GUITAR PLAYING GIRL. SWM, 26, • * ISO SWF, 22-30, to jam with. Into rock, 1 metal & the blues, plus various outdoor > interests. 5264__________________________________________ ; : I ’ » >

TAKE A HIKE, NS, LIKES POETRY, NATURE photography, folk guitar, hiking, writing, drawing, jazz, quiet tim es, traveling. ISO special woman to share life’s beauty with.

Everything matters, except everything. 5263

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: SWBIM, MID 30 s, ATTRACTIVE, SEN SUAL, * caring & a very good listener. ISO a F, who * likes children & desires a good person to * have laughs with & possibly a LTR. 5240 * DO YOU HONESTLY B ELIEV E YOU SHOULD * be treated like a queen? Then I w ould love l to accom m odate you. Responsive & responl sibie DPM, 30s, ISO serenity, curiosity, imagi* nation, laughter, integrity. 5225____________________

ISO INSIGNIFICANT OTHER FOR OFFICE XMAS party and other holiday events. Semi-PF, 37, tall, thin, pretty, clever, independent, pre­ sentab le se ek s similar, outgoing, humorous SM for the seaso n. 5136____________________________ SHARE YOUR DREAMS, LO VE PASSIONATELY, connect with Earth, im agine, live w/ grati­ tude, let go of why, care for your body, be com passionate, notice, forgive, be real, experience joy, DPF, intelligent, vibrant, spiri­ tual, playful, sensual. ISO 45+, companion to share journey. 5135

POOH LOOKS FOR LOVE, LAUGHS & LO G IC SWM, 31, 5’8 ”, moved from Boston. Cent­ ered, funk, Sim psons, cooking, funny, edu ­ cated, fit. ISO friend, com panion, laughs & a warm heart. Honesty is still #1. 5413___________ HEALTHY WM S E E K S VENTUROUS F FOR friendship & affection. I’m 46 YO, s ’8 ”. Very caring & affectionate. Your marital status not im portant as i am discreet. From NY area.

54 io ______________________________________________________ HAPPY WITH MY LIFE. LEARNING ALL THE time, but w ant to share some of those things with som eone. WM, 52, NS, in great shape. Love outdoors & in, 5405_________________ MATING SEASON APPROACHING! M, 43, ISO semi-wild, F, felirre who can m ake tiger n ois­ es. You & I are passionate, affectionate & committed, for LTR .5401

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HAPPY, ACTIVE, ATTRACTIVE, PETITE, OUTgoing, DWPF, NS, ISO handsom e new friend, 45-60, to share the wonder. Interests include b u sin ess, education, politics (Democratic), spiritual growth, culinary arts, sa lsa dancing (& other), m usic, m ovies, theater & concerts.

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dancing, m usic, quiet nights, sports. ISO WF, 20-40, w/same interests. Possible LTR. 5446

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BUFFY S E E K S HER ANGEL. 3 0 , FUNNY, INTEL- \ tigent, full-figured. Into Pop Culture, film & * fun. ISO like-minded man, 28-38, for late • night slayings. Good hum or a must! 5394 »

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SW F, ATTRACTIVE, SH APELY, PASSIONATE about outdoor activities, intelligent conversation, entertaining w/friends. You are honest, fun-loving, m onogam ous, financially secure, who is avail, to share new experiences & sp ontaneo us travel. 5397

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HELP STO P TH E IRRITATION IN MY HEAD. IN need of safety & security. Playful, honest, hiking up on the mtn. Would like to meet Mr. Right. 5127_________________________________________

LUSCIOUSLY FULL-FIGURED SW F WITH BLACK boot fetish. ISO 20-25 YO teddy bear who’s intelligent, sincere, and man enough to watch chick flicks. Kindness, sensitivity, and open-m indedness essential. 5411

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ATTRACTIVE, IN SHAPE, BLONDE/BLUE, 5*6”, 43, PSWF. ISO fun, educated M who enjoys good conversations, the outdoors, reading & m ovies. 5133 ________________________________________

DIGGING B EETS & DIGGING D EEP ER . SF, 24, * adventurous, quirky, w ide-eyed. Hopeful yet J realistic revolutionary loves acrobatic conver- l sations, silence of snow y w oods, m usic-mak- * ing, watching m oonrise over the com post * p ile .5 4 i8 __________________________________________________*

ARE YOU CREATIVE, NONMATERIALISTIC, spiritual, fit, active, progressive, 50+, emotionally grounded? Do you enjoy gardening, arts, m usic, projects, cooking? Me, too. 5402

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« SWM, 6 ’4, 31, ATHLETIC, NS, ND, ISO C-DAY * party partner & LTR for outdoors adventures * like hiking, caving, climbing, travel, cooking, « cam pfires. Even if you don’t answ er: Peace * & happiness shall be with y o u .5164____________

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Aty girlfriend is always asking me to run errands for her, often of a personal nature. She'll ask me to drive miles out of my way to pick up some special body cream for her, or to drive her to the gynecologist or to take care of her cats when she's cut of town, even when her roommate is going to be home. I don’t mind doing things for her, but sometimes I f eel like she’s just mak­ ing these requests in order to see me comply.

What do you think?

Helpful in Hinesburg Dear Helpful, Doing things for someone else, especially when the tasks carry an air of intimacy, strength­ en the bond between helper and helpee. your girlfriend’s requests reveal her insecurity.

Each time she says, "Will you do this?” what she really means is, "Do you love m e?” And each time you say, ”1 will,” she’s hearing, ”1 do.” If you want to remain close without being her errand boy, you need to find other ways to assure her of your commitment.

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MMMdwqjuxirm, ami B m m Amkinq m m WAIT!! DON’T M ISS TH IS ONE. SW PM , 29, I laid- back & open-m inded. ISO sim ilar SF. A n \ interest in snow boarding he outdoors & I having fun a bonus. Winter is near, let’s ’ hook-up. 5147 \

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S & M BUDDIES WANTED. GWM, 36, 6 ’, 180 lbs. Handsom e rugged type craves hot times with dom inate men, 20-40, w ho’ll use and punish me. 5430 ________________ CENTRAL VT, GWM, 41, 5*10”, BRN. & BRN. Honest open-m inded. Big chest & shoulders.

Looking for Mr. Right. Need som eone honest in my life. I’m caring, are you? Have nice country home and would like to share it. 25-

IMAGINE Y O U R SELF MEETING A NICE, GEN\ tie, educated guy who gives flowers, opens \ doors, treats you like a princess. I’m 44, a n d \ searching for an old-fashioned love, a nice, ; loving, trusting relationship. 5145 \

41 YO, friends, maybe LTR.5423

EDUCATED, ATHLETIC, DIVORCED WPM, 45, enjoys cam ping, fishing, swim m ing, biking, dancing, volleyball, softball. ISO a woman who likes to be shown intimacy & affection by one-woman m a n .5141

23 Bi, INEXPERIENCED, TATS, HEAVY-SET, fun, dark hair, goatee. Likes m ovies, alterna­ tive m usic, art, hanging out. ISO M, 18-30, for friendship & maybe more. Gam ers & freaks a plus. 5393

MONKEYS A R E FUNNY. POSTMODERN METAphysical speculation is fun. C onservatives are disturbing. Groening is God. 22 YO, eccentric genius, sarcastic, sexy but shy, mod/rocker se e k s sim ilar for whatever, 5137

TIME FOR A CHANGE? WHY NOT? BiWM, 30, 6 ’, 185 lbs., fit, attractive, inexperienced. ISO sam e, 18-35, for fun. Nothing serious.

Discretion a must. No mail. 5269 SM , 22, CUTE, FOR LTR OR MORE. MUST BE attractive, cute &. young. Look forward to your reply. 5259

DWM, 45, TALL, SEC U R E, ATHLETIC, FUN, romantic, grounded father. ISO sm art, sweet, sm iling, sexy, slim , athletic Mom to share laughs, adventures, life, travel, food, out­

SU B M ISSIVE M WANTS TO PLEA SE. ENJOYS dirty talk & likes to eat out. Can I please you ?5247

doors, children, 35-47.5131 SW PM TO S PO IL YOU! MATURE, ROMANTIC & hum orous. Very active & .u. I enjoy cook­ ing & dining out, hiking, biking, dancing to rock, & writing love letters. ISO active, fit, fun-loving F, 35-45, to share your likes too.

GWM IN CENTRAL VT, 43 , TALL, IN-SHAPE, active. Seeks in-shape, active GWM, 22-40, for hiking, biking, biading, movies, music,

5130 SWM, 40ISH , LOOKING TO MAKE NEW friends. Fs, 25-45. lust let loose & have fun.

No expectations. Over 5’8 ”, b o n u s.5129

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NOT PROMISING PERFECTION. BUT THIS w ell-preserved DWM, 38, smoker, prom ises a slender wom an, 25-44, endless friendship, great tim es, Jacuzzis, great talks & much to write about. I’m worth the call. 5123

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GWM, 6’, 170 LB S., 40 , WHO ENJOYS wrestling & more. ISO fit GM, 25-40, for fun discreet tim es. Adirondack Park area. No mail please. 5117

SEX Y BICU, 30 S, ADVENTUROUS, EROTIC, athletically built. 6’i ”, 190 lbs., 5*3” , n o lbs.

ISO BiCu, BiF, well-endowed Bi or straight M for pleasurable, discreet encounters. 5125 HAILS! HVAIWA GAGGITH THUS? "IK HATJA wintru unte mel gatrafsteinais ist.” Rimbaud.

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5419 SWM, 40 , EXPERIEN CED. ISO SHY, QUIET, m odest, intelligent, & cute student; my soul mate, my little girl. A shy one, to nurture & guide, with care & love. LTR possible. 5415

GWF RELOCATING TO VT. ISO STRONG, TALL, outgoing F. Must be independent & debt; free. Must love anim als & me. Let’s be friends first. Ages 38 -4 9 .5 4 0 6

LOOKING FOR A M USE? YOUNG MALE, 28, looking to be an inspiration for an am azing w om an. Tell me w hat you want. I will com ­ ply. Be for real. 5408

SW F 31, ISO FRIENDS 25-40. M UST B E CARing, sensitive, & secure w/who they are.

Trying to reconnect with the world! You won’t find a better friend than me! 5383

CLEAN, ND, NS, SWPM, LATE 4 0 S, ISO SIMIlar F or CU, 35-50, to share m eals, com pan­ ionship and adult fun. In excellent physical sh ape, wilting to travel. Let’s share dinner and put our desires on the table. 5392

LOOKING FOR FRIENDS TO CYCLE, SKI OR snowboard and just hang out. Relatively new to the Burlington area and have had a hard time making friends. Let’s go ride or ski this weekend! 5085

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CU ISO BiF OR CU W BiF, 25-45, FOR EXOTIC fantasy fulfillment. Are you creative? Call us for your next fantasy encounter. 5390__________ BOARD GAMING! LOOKING TO FIND OR make a group of regular gamers for my vast collection of board gam es. I have Germanstyle w ar gam es, party, family, dexterity & everything in b etw een .5385

23 Y O , SW F, BICURIOUS. LOOKING TO WALK on the w ild side. ISO lesbian G od dess to train me. I am your student. If I get out of line, please whip me. 5118

BiCu, 3 0 ’S, ADVENTUROUS, EROTIC, LIKES going places, ISO another BiCu to have fun with, go places (maybe a weekend in Montreal) intimate encounters with. 5139

DWF, 44, ISO FEMALE FRIENDSHIP TO share golfing, biking, swimming, snowshoeing, skiing, m ovies, music, dinner, drinks & the ups & downs that come with living life.

5216 CENTRAL VT: “MY CUP RUNNETH OVER!” JOY 81 abundance abound! Would enjoy company of kindred, during breaks from chopping wood & carrying water. Age, gender, sexual orientation, physical attributes, etc. irrele­ vant. 5146

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BEAR/DEER SEASON HAS COME AND GONE. What a season it w as. Now it’s time to take care of business ’til we can be together again. I love you, Sugarbush XO .5 426 ANTHONY I’V E LOVED YOU FOR SO LONG. You’ve changed my life! I can’t wait to spend the rest of it with you and the kids too!

w ish. MW 5382 STEPHAN IE, I CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY mind. Good luck with Art & Psyche. Love to split a bottle of wine with you & talk. I hope you’re single. 5270

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Love you, your girt. 5424

SHANNON, 10/24 OR 25, W E SHARED ONE dance at the end of the evening at RiRa’s.

Your eyes sparkled, your sm ile made me sp eech less. I left into the night w/friends but never thanked you. May I, over coffee?5416

* KATE: W E MET A W HILE AGO AT RIRA’S . I * got your gum as a consultation prize. Saw t you holding a Donovan sign at elections. * Can we meet ag ain ?5248

for the holidays! 5414

CRUSTINI, WHITE HERON, TH REE BARS, AND a cat. Beaker needs a challenger, care to join me. 5244

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT FINNIGAN’S bar. It’s like Christm as year ‘round. Since you I have found. It seem s very clear, there’s much to anticipate in the New Year! 5412

MUDDY W ATERS, SAT. 11/25. YOU: RED hair, black sweater, teapot & journal. Me: man near you, blue sweater, laptop.

Adverse to verbs & strangers. You?5242

CASEY, (KASEY, KC?) 8l BIZ. MET YOU WITH my “brother” at 3 Needs. Perhaps we could meet for G&T’s again, Andy 5409

TAD: UP ON TH E MOUNTAIN SOM EW HERE you are, 32 00 m iles w est I am. And m issing your cynical perspective like crazy. Hello to Zeb as well. 5238

MY LADY GUINEVERE, YOU KNOW WHO YOU are. Your bubber can’t wait to be with you

MAGIC HAT PARTY. YOU W ERE TH E COW GIRL that went to H.S., I think you said CVU. I w as the Viking with my friend the bee. I wanted to get your number, but didn’t see you again. If you would like to get together, look me up. 5403 TO TH E FORMER NECI PASTRY-COUNTER m aiden, studying Eng. Lit. at UVM. Your sm ile beckons. I’m the red-coated occasional vagabond w/a penchant for languages. Let’s talk books! 5399 12/1/00. PRESS-REPUBLICAN PARKING LOT. You: Leaving in your tan car. Me: Standing next to my car watching you drive by. You sm iled, I just stared. Let’s meet! 5398

FOOD GUY - YO U ’V E TW ISTED MY SPIRIT into a spinning kaleidoscope of vitality & faith, & I have enjoyed every moment. Feed me more! - Ice-cream girl. 5237 TALL GUY SEARCHING FOR AN ORGANICALLY inclined A lyssa with harmony. We first met at Merlefest in 1998. Haven’t seen enough of you since. Would you like to get dinner som etim e?5233 P U R PLE L I P S - THANKS FOR A YEAR OF incredible sw e etn e ss. The Big-armed boy. _________

5231

SHAWN, AUTO MECHANIC, FROM BARRE: “ R oses are red, violets are blue, wouldn’t I like to spend a day, talking with you .” You responded with no address or phone num ­ _______ ber. 5227 TH E VIEW FROM A C R O SS TH E LAKE IS great, but how do I reach you? I share your values & principles. 5224

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ISO 20-2 5 YO teddy bear w ho’s intelligent, sincere, and man enough to w atch chick flicks. Kin d n e ss, sensitivity, and o p e n -m in d e d n ess e ss e n ­ tial.

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WCU, BiCURIOUS M, BUSTY F, ISO TV/FS cross-dresser for erotic fun. Must be d is­ creet. Let’s explore! 5140

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ADVEN TURE... W HERE A R E A LL TH E HOT GAY* wom en in Vermont hiding? Are any of you * out there? Active GWF, se e k s play friends to \ share in laughter and new adventures. 5161 t

FOR HALLOWEEN & BEYOND. SWPM, 4 0 s, cross-dresser, longtime. Genuinely fascinated student of the scene. ISO attractive, dom i­ nant fem(s) for safe & sane initiation into your world. “Aching” to be pleasing & am us­ ing. Clean & discreet, im perative. Have co s­ tume, will travel. 5220

COUNTRY ISO PRESIDENT. GREAT JOB Opp­ ortunity for the right person. Good people skills, enjoy controlling a nation, relocation required. Free room/board. Start immediately, 4 yr. commitment. No experience necessary, will train. 5154

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LUSCIOUSLY FULLFIGURED SWF W/ BLACK BOOT FETISH.

WM, MID 20S, GOOD SHAPE, CLEAN. ISO 40+ F, age, race, size, shape unimportant.

Looking for older women that need their sexual fantasies fulfilled. Must be openminded, discreet & c le a n .5228

creet good tim es. 5134

SWM, 3 0 s, 5’4 ”, 140 LB S. ISO TWO SW F TO fulfill my fantasies. Must be in good shape.

BIF, 20, NEW TO TH E LIFES TY LE. NS, CHARism atic, laid-back, candle and astrology junkie. Seeking 20som ething SF, w/same interests, great conversations, friendship or more if com fortable. 5214

MACU ISO F FOR FUN TOGETHER. F WHO would enjoy being w/both of us & also enjoys being outdoors, football, m ovies, etc.

Sound like you? Please let us get to know you. 5239

SU B M ISSIVE BEAR S E E K S A G GRESSIV E trappers! Butch, balding, bearded, blue-eyes.

B/D, S/M bottom bear looking to explore/ expand limits with dem anding dominant disciplinarian(s). All scenes considered. Not planning to hibernate this winter! 5132

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TALL, ATHLETIC, ATTRACTIVE, 30 S, SWM. Into adult pleasure. Maybe I can make your sexual fantasy a reality. Let me know your desires. Must be healthy & discreet. 5245

BICU, 3 0 S, ADVENTUROUS, EROTIC LIKES going places. ISO another BiCu to have fun with & go places (maybe a weekend in Montreal) & to have intimate encounters.

BURLINGTON/RUTLAND BIWM, 5 T 0 ”, 185 lbs., red hair, average looks & build.

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LOVE IS THE DRUG, A S IN CHEM ISTRY. SWM, 44, ISO, sen su o u s, foxy F, unburdened by identity/age issu es. We’re struggling Hedonists. Yes? Your bass-loving equal w ants to appreciate, love & respect you.

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ATTRACTIVE PCU, EARLY 4oS, TO SHARE ongoing friendship & adult sensuality w/likeminded attractive CUs, either individual or group so cials possible. Privacy & intimacy assured. You’ll like us. 5381

YOUNG 20SOMETHING CU, FIT & ATTRACtive, ISO M, 18-35, to fulfill my girlfriends desires. Must be discreet and fit. Uncut a

GWM, 32, NEW TO AREA. VGL, SW EET, KIND, and sick of gam es. If you are not a jack ass and Red Lobster followed by a movie so unds fun to you, reply. 5153

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IT S EE M S THAT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE who has noticed you. There are others who DARK-HAIRED BEAUTY NOTICED YOU, TEA R S » see you for your charm and beauty. Great in eyes, boarding United flight at MHT on * energy at Finnigan’s, Wed 11/15!!! 5166__________ 9/5. Meet me on 12/9, sam e place? Tears * okay. I’ll be the guy with flowers. E s s s s .5 2 i7 * ICE CREAM GIRL- YOU’V E ROCKED MY world. The Food Guy. 5165 CASSIE: CO YO TES, THURSDAY NIGHT. YOU ; stuck your tongue out at me. I love you. * UNDER A ROCK IN BURLAP: THANKS FOR your letter, E. But I need your phone, 5215_______________________________________________________ : ad d ress, POB, or e-mail to contact you.

YOU SAW ME, I PRO BA BLY SAW YOU , BUT I ; Please write again (IOU $5). Line. 5163_________ didn’t know it w as you. Inconceivable! You * don’t by any chance happen to have six fin- j DELIGHTFUL TO WATCH, DARK HAIR, FULLgers on your right h a n d ?5 2 i2 * lips, wearing khakis and black sandals, Price Chopper. You, with boyfriend saying hello 11/15/00. 9 :0 0 pm - LITTLE BO Y DRIVING * with glances while in line. Can we meet an enorm ously big green car. You sm iled and j somehow, so m e tim e ?si6 o invited me in. Maybe we could go out on a * “date” so m e tim e.5209 j OUR PATHS CR O SSED ; FLETCHER, BAIRD 6th from 10/5-10. We exchanged glances w/o SAGITTARIUS, BOTH O F U S, S P O K E W/YOU • meeting. I, handsom e recovering man. You, next to the bonfire in Fletcher on 11/18. Do * beauty with dark hair visiting family member you rem ember me this tim e? Still interested? * nightly. May we meet ag ain ?5159 5208______________________________________________________ ; ADAM: W E SHARED A ‘NEW YEA R’ TOGETHI SAW YOU WALKING IN TH E MALL FROM A * er recently. It’s 11:45 Friday night & too late distance, I w atched you and sm iled.

Then j to call. Are you coming soon to experience said to m yself, “I am so lucky to have you.” » this sunny Eden? Apples, yum! 5158 Love you, Babe. 5207 ; SRJ: RRRR. GROUGH. URFF. Argh. Ummm.

YOU W ORK AS A CAKE DECORATOR, SW EET! ; Grrrrr. W oof and Purr. AJS.5150 F, long, blondish hair. We danced swing, slow danced at Nectars on w eeknight. I gave * LMP, TICK, TICK, TICK, TICK, tick, tick. SEW you my number, I truthfully am not married! ♦ 5144

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Beautiful, blue eyes... I’ll let you have the last country loaf. I settled for the baguette.

I’d love to meet you for real. 5142 FIVE SPIC E 10/23. TO BE MORE S P E C IF IC ..

You: replete with Pixies songs and lines from the Princess Bride. Dark hair. G lasses.

Me: feeling like queen of the dorks. 5138 ATTN. SUSAN: YOU ANSWERED MY AD 4784.

You just turned 40. The phone number you gave did not work. Please try again. Dale.

5126 10/28 B A L L - YOU TWO LOOKED GREAT. Nice a s se s . We introduced ourselves on your way out. What are you into? Wanna get together? Call us J & M.5120 H/3/00- 3 :3 0 P.M.- CORNER O F PEARL AND Elmwood- big green car. Your sm ile made me want to hit the brakes. I circled the block but you had vanished. Wanna go for a ride?

5086 11/4/00: I STOOD BEHIND YOU AND ORDERed a Budlight. You leaned back and I felt the chemistry. You got a phone call, sm iled, then left. You should have introduced yourself.

5084______________________________________________________ TO MY LIFETIME LOVE, I LOVE FALLING asleep with you in my arm s, waking up in yours and spending time sharing our laugh­ ter and love. I love who we are together!

YEA!! 5079

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LOVING WOMAN, 60 , WHO LOOKS & FEELS younger. ISO affectionate man to love & who will love me back. One who is a NS, affec­ tionate, health con sciou s, likes music.

Box 855__________________________________________________ SHINE YOUR LO VE LIGHTS ON ME. A R E YOU kind? Are you cool? Positive? Healthy? Love life? Got spirit? Savor every second? Breathe deep? S ee k peace? Know thyself? Me too.

Yupper. Box 854_______________________________________ 23 YO GM TRAPPED IN A WOMAN’S BODY. ISO SM who will cum & open their Christm as present early. Includes hot candle wax, love oils 8. edible undies. Box 845 S W F - CARRIE, 3 8 YO , 5 ’4 ’, 110 LB S., LT. sm oker from Montreal. Seeking guy with sim ilar tastes. Love m usic, early Bowie, Iggy, 70’s, alternative, m ovies, anim als, painting & making films. Box 842_______________________________ MATURE SW F, NS. PRIVATE, PASSIONATE, pensive, political, perceptive, particular, Drawn to beaches, books, theater, m usic, labyrinths, fantasy and family. P lease, don’t assum e anything. Box 843________________________ VOLUPTUOUS VIRGO, 50 S, ATTRACTIVE, PWF childless, loves outdoor fun, m usic, dancing.

ISO gentleman for lasting friendship w/honesty & trust. Let’s bring in 2001 together!

Burlington area. Box 828

PRETTY PRO FESSION AL WITH A TW INKLE IN her eye, into painting, reading & aerobic dancing, is looking for a gentleman, 51-69, w ho’s intellectual, aware &. loving— &. can twinkle back! Box 830_______________________________ SEEKIN G FRIENDSHIP CONVERSATION W/ gentlem an, 65+, tall, intelligent, caring. Me: tall, hazel eyes, slim , trim, education, retired P, active, NS. Box 831_______________________________ GROW OLD WITH ME. SW F, 57, SM OKER, ISO WM who likes auto racing, country m usic, cam ping, dining out &. quiet tim es at home.

Friends first. Write soon. Box 832________________ 23 Y O , ATTRACTIVE SW F, WHO LO VES DANcing, sports, driving, cuddling & adventure.

Sorry, country m usic not incl. ISO SM, 18-30 w/same interests & sense of humor. Box 827 IN SH APE, UP BEAT, ATTRACTIVE DWF. SEEK ing well-m annered, trustworthy gentlem an, good appearane, NS, to share my life. 50-60.

Not afraid of commitment. Please tell me aout yourself. Box 834______________________________ ECLECTIC, IRREVERENT, INDEPENDENT ICONoclast (well-preserved; 52) w ish es to meet em pathetic M (sam e; 45-55) w/social con ­ science who values intellectual stimulation & mature emotional connection. Must like Thai food, no MSG! Box 826

man Aaakinq woman SM , 42 , ARTISTIC, POETIC, ROMANTIC Southerner, 5’n ”, 200 lbs., in good shape.

Enjoys cam ping, boating, fishing and dance.

ISO open, honest, friendship first. Explore the depths of a labyrinth heart. Box 852

INCARCERATED HANDSOME FRENCH CARIBBean, 32, 5 ’n ”, 180 lbs., muscular. Sexy chocolate w/dreadlocks. Fluent in French, Patois Brooklynese. Retired Bad Boy. Release 2001. ISO intelligent, honest, crunchy not country SF. Box 850_________________

AB SO LU TELY FREE! MY HEARTI DWM, YOUNG 38, smoker. Good looks/build. S ee k s a sle n ­ der F, 28-44, who is outgoing, enjoys m usic, dancing, the outdoors 8t indoors, rom ance, quiet tim es. Make us happen! Box 821

HANDSOME M, 40, STRONG BUILD, s ’lo ”, 185 lbs. Friendly, gentle, outgoing but demanding schedule. Desires fit F for good friendship, discreet encounters. Youth age or Ma, no barrier. Honesty, security, closen ess.

Box 851__________________________________________________

women 28 YO SW F ISO 30+ SW F FOR FRIENDSHIP 81 more. I’m looking for honesty, love and affection. We’ll take on the world together.. let the adventure begin! Box 849________________

SWM, 52, 6 ’, 200 LB S., NS, ISO, S F, 40-55, active, fun, loves movies, quiet life. Box 835

WOODSWOMAN (N.CT. VT.), 49 , S E E K S KINDred soul for dance of intim acy— led by kind hearts, step by step, to loving, celebrating 81 honoring our being together & apart. Let’s dance. Box 844________________________________________

SWM, 25, 5’ 7” . BROWN EYES/HAIR. I AM loyal, honest, romantic, discreet, willing, lov­ ing, faithful gentleman. ISO a full-figured F for a serious relationship. Send photo.

Box 836_________________________________________________

ASPIRING W RITER S E E K S A M USE TO BE am used. I am articulate, attentive, athlectic, and am bitious. Contact me if interested in learning about me. Box 863_______________________

LOOKING FOR ROMANTIC, PASSIONATE, com panion. Me: PSWM, 61, tall, slim , NS, You: attractive, slim, free spirit, adventurous, assion ate. Like travel & dining. Box 838

LOOKING FOR GAY FRIENDS IN CENTRAL VT. I am 58. I enjoy w ildlife, hiking, etc. ISO mate or friendship. Box 862

A BSO LU TELY FREE! MY HEART! DWM, YOUNG 38, smoker. Good looks/build. S eeks a slen ­ der F, 28-44, who is outgoing, enjoys music, dancing, the outdoors & indoors, romance, quiet tim es. Make us happen! Box 821_________

BIWM, 50ISH , CLEAN, D ISCR EET, ATTRACitive, good sh ap e, ISO w ell-built M for d is­ creet encounters, days or eves. Box 825

P B G H yB T O N . - NOT: SLIM , GORGEOUS, degreed or wealthy, but a genuine good w om an, 50s, m usical, artisistic, kink-friendly, NA, ND, NS, se e k s a “like” m ale. Safe, sane, discreet, clean, p ossible LTR. Box 846

oO m SW M , 35 , DALI/GARY NUMAN DISCIPLE. YOU? Me M ontpelier city. , 1st day sn ak e, been there. C hinese horoscopes a plus. Younger p lease. Box 861____________________________________ INCARCERATED, 3 9 , NON-VIOLENT, SUBM ISsive WM. Happiness is: dom inant, heavyset, w ealthy woman 30-50 to feminize me and teach me how to be the wom an I crave to be. Box 85 6____________________________________________ MWM 40 , ISO CO U PLE FOR CLEAN, SAFE, intimate fun. Central to Northeast VT. Very discreet. Let’s trade letters. Box 853_________

V ER Y YOUNG s o ’S , ATHLETIC, s’io" TALL, well-educated, healthy & STD free, sensitive, romantic, sensuo us, financially secure, child­ less, jack-of-all-trades fella seeks slim, warm, open, liberal, spontaneous, patient, tactile, romantic, sensuo us woman who loves the outdoors, boating, & w ants to enjoy fine wine & su nset dinners prepared by me on the deck of my lakefront home. A long tetter will get you the sam e. Box 800

BIWM, 5’5 ”, 140 LB S., ISO DOMINANT M. I enjoy B&D, S&M, W/S, willing to please. I can be your toy to play with 8< m ake fun of.

Will answ er all. Box 847____________________________ SGWM, ST. ALBANS-AREA, 5’ 10”, 230 LB S. sincere, quiet ISO SGM, 30-40S, honesty first. LTR only. I have much to offer, are you the one? D/D free, sm oker OK. Box 848

CLEVELAND ROCKS. YOU DON’T GO BACK TO the w oods & under the rock from where you cam e. Box 840

RUTLAND HANNAFORDS, 11/28 AROUND noon in the checkout line. You were blonde wearing a dark, w ool coat. Me: grey beard w earing a green vest. Nice eye contact. Can we meet? Box 857

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