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ODD, STRANGE, CURIOUS AND WEIRD BUT TRUE NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERY CORNER OF THE GLOBE ing sex professed to wanting abortion :nt o f marto listen to afterwatching porno movies after returning hom e from a music concert:”

San Juan, Puerto Rico, awarded against Kevin Grenway, claimCalifornia, arrested Ysaias her $10,000 in damages. ing he broke her collarbone Grijalba, 27, for approaching ‘ ................................. during a YMCA softball game Yvonne Gil-Rebollo had sued women and kissing their feet. in ■i Police spokesperson Tim othy for $1 million. Mascot Wes Staab said the unem ­ Lockard explained he “just ployed warehouse wanted to dance” with GilRebollo, who is the wife o f worker told the women he was a col­ Francisco Rebollo, a Puerto Rico Supreme lege student studying C ourt judge and the sis­ massage therapy, then talked them into letting ter o f Guillermo Gil Bonar, the island s U.S. ^ S him massage their feet. He also expressed interest in one attorney. a* ° womans armpits. "Eve been * Two mothers o f youth-league cheerleaders were charged with Baltimore County, Maryland, told foot fetishes may not be when he failed to slide into sec­ unusual,” Staab said, “but the assault and battery after a dis­ ond base as required by the particular way this individual pute during a football practice rules. Initially, Stafford had carried out his foot fetishes was at Rustburg (Virginia) Middle sued both Grenway and the unusual.”

School. “It was an argum ent W hite Marsh YMCA* , ■ that started over paying a $5 turn had sued the team managM O O D M U S IC 'imMm' fee for snacks after practice,” er, umpire and the company According to a survey taken said Lt. Earl Jordan o f the that made the team’s T-shirts in by Black Pearl Records o f New Campbell C ounty Sheriffs hopes o f recovering any losses.

Departm ent. He explained that A circuit judge later ruled that * “Single women who earned all the children were supposed to donate the money, but team Stafford could sue Grenway but over $45,000 a year were 79 percent less likely to listen to mom Darlene Foster Berryman nobody else, music during sex than married p u t her hand on the shoulder women who earned over o f Karen Rameys daughter and P U SH BUTTON A G € $45,000 a year.’ told the child she couldn’t have To relieve the courts, a snack. T hat upset Ramey, Arizona introduced the • “Twelve percent o f single —L ~ said, “ran up to Q uickC ourt system: ATM-like women who listen to jazz durM M

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• “Twenty-four percent o f sin­ gle women who listen to rhythm and blues music pre­ ferred having sex before going out on a date.”

• “Fifty-six percent o f married women said they enjoyed a sporting event more if a wellknown male singer sang the national anthem before the game.”

• “Sixty percent o f wom en who listen to Luther Vandross pro­ fessed that kissing was more im portant than sex.”

C A P IT A L IZ IN G O N C O M M U N IS M Images o f the old Germ an Democratic Republic abound at “ostalgia” parties organized

by Ralf Heckel, 27, since last May. For $3350 to $10,000, he decorates nightclubs w ith old East Germ an flags and sloganfilled banners. Featured enter­ tainers are called the “EastyGirls” — teens dressed in hot pants and com m unist youthleague shirts who sing and dance. T heir disco songs with patriotic lyrics have caught the

su R veysA ys Italian men and Belgian women cry the most, according to a D utch survey o f people in 27 countries conducted by the psychology departm ent at Tilburg University. Bulgarian men and Nigerian women cry the least. “W om en cry more than men almost everywhere in the world,” said Marleen Becht, one o f the study team. “And all over the world, it’s the same; People prefer to cry alone — if possible at hom e in their bed­ rooms.”

• A University o f Michigan sur­ vey found marital bliss peaks during the honeymoon, declines for the next 20 years, but then soars to new heights around the 35th anniversary.

“O u r results show that declines in work and parental responsi­ bilities explain a large portion o f the increase in marital satis­ faction in the later years o f marriage,” UM sociologist Terri L. O rbuch said. “Declining income and increasing assets in later life also explain a small portion o f the increase.” □

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CIRCULAR REASONING * * ''I The best answer to traffic light collisions (“Red Light, Green Light,” December 18) is no signals at all — just retrofit our signalized intersections to modern round­ abouts.

Simply, Marny Long’s accident could not happen at a Main and N. Prospect Streets roundabout. While most traffic engineers fume and wallow in denial, modern round­ abouts proliferate in the U.S. They are cutting collisions by half, cut­ ting injuries by even more, and reducing injury severity. Why do Britain and Australia’s Victoria State boast the world’s best highway safe­ ty? Besides education and enforce­ ment, roundabouts — the standard intersection treatment there — are the key factor.

Montpelier’s roundabout experi­ enced one pedestrian hit in 16 months (bumps and bruises only) and no reportable car collisions. It is one of an escalating U.S. round­ about population, now about 30.

The November vote in Avon, Colorado, approving five round­ abouts at a local taxpayer cost of $3.5 million in bonding, is good news. The lowest-volume Avon roundabout handles traffic volumes higher than N. Prospect and Main!

Why wait, let’s start building more roundabouts! Three Vermont roundabouts are set for construction in 1997-1998. Community plans feature five roundabouts in Brattleboro and eight in Manchester.

Roundabouts calm traffic, con­ trol speed, serve pedestrians better, move more vehicles, and cost less to build and main­ tain. The Main Street and Shelburne Road reconstructions are perfect for roundabout retrofits.

Signalized intersection crash victims suits are sure to doom the signal anyway.

Let’s leave the colored lights to the holiday dis­ plays, not for orchestrating accidents at Vermont intersections.

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MAGI MISSED f ' ' I regret that your reviewer, P. Finn McManamy, was unable to enjoy our production of The Gift o f the Magi in the spirit in which it was intended (“This Magi Moment,” Seven Days, December 23). In my experience, parents enjoy sharing classic stories with their children. We chose to produce Peter Ekstrom’s adaptation as our holiday show because it is simple, human and accessible to all ages. The interest of the piece is not in the historical value of the music and lyrics, but in the human value of the event itself.

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THE DREAD OF P H Y S ED W hat was i t about g ym class th a t m ade yo u w a n t to run in the other direction?

CAGEY COLUMNIST After reading Peter Freyne’s column in the 12/30/96 issue of Seven Days, I can only believe that local pet shops will have a fantastic demand for para­ keets. His column should make a fantastic cage-liner.

I’ve decided no longer to waste my time reading such drivel. Who put the burr under his tail, anyway?

Certainly you can find better.

— David Keenan Essex WASTE OF INK Hey, Curt! Your letter (Weekly Mail, December 23) concerning Peter Freyne and his style (or lack thereof) of journalism was a breath of truthful, fresh air. Thank you!

I have observed the column of another one of Burlington’s top-notch writers, Steve Lemcke. He spews his “weekly drivel” as “Scene and Heard” in the music section of the Burlington Free Press.

Although Freyne and Lemcke’s topics are different, their writing styles are similar: “pathetic and boring, “self-indulgent” at best. Lemcke’s “gratuitous attacks” on local musical genre other than the faves he always blats about have surpassed the limits of boredom and are no more than a waste of ink, paper and time.

Obviously it’s too far-fetched to ask that a person be experienced and qualified when writing about a sub­ ject that they erroneously believe they have some knowledge about. What can be expected of “bottom feeders,” anyway? They’re always in the dark.

Perhaps Freyne and Lemcke could collaborate on a pulp novel or comic strip? Or better yet, shred their columns for packing material.

— Luke Boggess Burlington

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Dear Cecil, I’ve heard all the jokes; now I want some facts. I’m in my mid ’60s and partially bald. I can barely keep ahead of trimming the hair grow­ ing in my nose and ears. What gives?

—- Ernest Hobbs, Columbus, Ohio This problem, which is common among men as they age, is a manifestation of the law of conservation of hair. When you were young the manly fluid filled your whole being, but as you got older a lot of it boiled off. By now it doesn’t even reach the bottom of the old brainpan. The sad result is that hair grows in your nose and ears rather than on top of your head. The plus side is that you can now watch Pocahontas with the grandkids without thinking, "Whoa, nice rack.”

Unfortunately, that’s about it for definitive statements on this sub­ ject. I note that my friend David Feldman frittered away parts of two of his Imponderables books before concluding that not much was known about this. His findings: (1) Excessive hair is called hypertrichosis.

(2) Hairy ears are an inherited trait that some geneticists believed was passed along on the Y (male) chromosomes.

(3) They don’t believe this anymore.

(4) In 1984 two doctors in MineoJa, New York, announced that hair in the ear canal plus a crease in the ear lobe were signs that you were susceptible to heart attack (strictly speaking, that you had coronaryartery disease, i.e., narrowing of the coronary arteries).

(5) In 1985, having been accused of misconstruing the data big-time, the doctors conceded that hairy, creased ears were pretty useless as a predictor of heart attacks.

Actually, Dave touched only lightly on item five, but I figured I’d better clarify the lack of clarity on this point. v ,fr Having further reviewed the medical literature, I can add the Tot-/ ' lowing to the above: (1) Even less is known about hairy noses than hairy ears.

(2) In men hairy ears are probably pretty common. In the Mineola study 74 percent of the men had them. Unfortunately you can’t tell how old they were because the only average age provided applied to a group of men and women mixed together. Obviously a little more time needs to be spent on statistics in the medical schools serving Mineola, (3) It sure is hard to figure out what medical authors are talking about when they use words like “tragus” and “pinna” without telling you what they mean.

(4) The tragus is the pointy projection on the front side of your ear opening. Interestingly, tragus can also mean any of die hairs growing at the entrance to the ear. So I guess what you’ve got there, Ernest, is a bad case of tragus on the tragus.

(5) The pinna, according to the dictionary, is the “external part of the ear,” but some medical authors figure it really means the external part of the ear except the tragus.

(6) I bet hair on the tragus is what’s really important, but maybe that’s just because I have it.

(7) Some people think men in certain ethnic groups, such as those found in parts of India and Sri Lanka, have hairier ears than usual.

However, you couldn’t prove it by me, inasmuch as the admittedly sparse literature on the subject suggests that hairy ears are pretty com­ mon all over. In any case, the Indian researchers think if you’ve got them you might have diabetes, too.

(8) You can get hairy ears as a result of using minoxidil and, boy, does it look gross.

(9) While not having hairy, creased ears doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t prone to heart attacks, if you do have them — and if in other respects you seem like the heart-attack-prone type —- you’re in trou­ ble. Ninety percent of the guys with hairy, creased ears in the Mineola study had coronary-artery disease.

(10) I sure wish the people who published the relatively small number of ear-hai r papers had had their acts a little more together, because it’s just about impossible to determine from their work whether ear hair becomes more common in men as they age and, if so, where on the ear and with what indications for your health. But its not like count­ ing ear hairs is a job that’s going to attract the great minds of our times.

(11) Some great mind is going to have to do a lot of this work over if

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Rem em ber Delaney? — John Carroll trounced I him in the G.O.P. primary only to get trounced § himself in November by Doug Racine. Dennis g Twelve years ago Cheryl Rivers walked into Delaney went away quietly. So quietly, he didn’t | the Statehouse as the low-paid advocate for bother to call J.C. to congratulate him. But I Vermont’s have-nots. This week she takes her folks, Dennis has been to the mountaintop. At 1 ® seat at the head o f the table in the Senate least two political scribes recently received post- j Finance Com mittee. Chairm an Rivers calls ’em cards from Dennis the Menace — from Africa. | as she sees ’em. She’s learned the ropes under Dennis proudly reports climbing Mt. Kilimg the dome from the ground up. In 1990 she anjaro with his son on Christmas Day. We i won a senate seat. Since then she’s earned a repassume he climbed back down? Yo, Dennis? | * utation in the building for mastering the art o f W h at M ayors Race?

— Looks like nothing but g negotiation and compromise. fringe candidates to take on Peter Clavelle, the j Down the hallway in the Senate Natural Howard Dean o f Mayors.

Hey, it’s obvious Resources Com m ittee, folks are watching to see Clavelle has switched political gurus. Bernie ! how long Chairm an Elizabeth Ready sticks to Sanders’ left-wing persistence is out. H o-H o’s | I the rules she laid down after the Democratic kinder, gentler, pro-business, middle-of-the| sweep on November 5: “No Fighting. No gumroad stuff is in. g | chewing. And no short skirts!”

Remember when Burlington Progressives Chainsaw Ready (whrr! whrr! whrrr!) got were the party of rent control? Taxing hospital | her chairmanship, too, but the coaches decided hill?

Starting a municipally owned cable televig 1 it’d be a good idea to have Sen. Peter Shumlin sion operation?

Lowering the regressive property | keep a close eye on both o f ’em. Shummy, after tax?

Guess there are Sanderistas and then there all, has been taking evening classes in how to be a “Howard Dean Dem ocrat.” He’s the new sen- are Progressives. Nowadays the ruling left bravely § fights against “drinking corridors” and yearns for j 8 ate president pro tern, and he delivered a pasadult sex zoning and upscale shopping. Cool. | sionate, “I Walk the Yellow Line,” speech upon Clavelle-style progressivism is just middle- g ; being sworn in. O h, to be a born-again moderof-the-road Democrat, which on economic I ate! (Let’s hope Shummy wasn’t talking about a issues meshes with the Republican creed. For | ®yellow line in the snow. Johnny Cash would be example, Mayor Progressive just rehired the pissed.) gold-plated Statehouse lobbying firm of j By the way, Barbara Kimbell Sherman & Ellis to Snelling is not going to be a carry his version o f Burlington’s S Jj wallflower in the state senate. water under the golden dome. § Babs is not the G O P leader — The suits already carry Hydro- | that title went to the stock-car Quebec’s water, too, so they g | racing aficionado from must be experts. Certainly, city ® I Caledonia County, Rob Ide — funds spent on hired-gun busi- 1 but she’s got a seat at the table ness lobbyists is money well i in Appropriations and joins spent.

Sure beats a couple g | Shummy on Chainsaw Liz’s teacher aides or, God forbid, | environmental committee. another cop.

Papal Infallibility — Over in Blue Light Special — the House, Speaker Michael Remember when bomb threats g Obuchowski exercised the wiswere emptying Milton High g | dom o f the Pope in placing School last month?

N ot a Democrat Alan Bjerke, bomb-sniffing dog in sight, I* Republican R uth Dwyer and right? But as soon as IBM got a | Progressive Dean Corren call, three little sniffer dogs were g around the same table in the rushed up from Connecticut.

Jj | Commerce Com mittee. Three Priorities, folks.

A lot of IBMers * I certifiable know-it-alls in one were a little shook up. Sure, it’s 1 little room. Brilliant! Somebody probably the standard “disgrun- 1 please crack a window. tied employee,” but they say a | | Chairm an Kathy Keenan bomb in the right spot at Big | (you mean Bjerke didn’t steal Blue could do a heck of a lot of 1 g the chairmanship after all?) laid damage to the surrounding down the law on opening day. communities.

Lots o f broken | | Keenan made it perfectly clear glass.

Fact is, security ain’t so > | that this year no committee strict.

One subcontractor tells j members will be opposing com ­ Inside Track he regularly enters the building 1 mittee bills in floor debate. The message was w ithout an ID card.

He just slips in when the | I aimed squarely at Bad Boy Bjerke. But Keenan’s door opens for a card-carrying employee. | Law does have side effects. Observers speculate I Tailgaiting.

Since the bomb threat, Big Blue’s that with Corren muzzled, too, it’ll cut a good put security guards back in the ceremonial “ half hour off floor debates, where Dean the guard shacks. Wow! 1 Dream loves to play the am endm ent game.

M edia Notes — Kudos to The Rutland Heralds g Ruth Dwyer o f Thetford was a hot-to-trot Diane Derby for successfully convincing Judge rookie last session. She voted for the PolishM arilyn Skoglund that the Louis Hines hear­ I | American Mustache for Speaker and was ing should be open to the public. “Derbs,” ! rewarded with a seat on the Appropriations winging it w ithout a lawyer, argued that Hines 1 Com mittee. This time Obie ran unopposed. gave up his precious confidentiality when his Tom Terrific? — Everybody’s trashing poor ex1 lawyer spun The Burlington Free Press last | Senator Tom Macaulay o f Rutland for being a m onth. The judge agreed with Derby. The I sore loser, but look at the bright side. Tommy Freeps didn’t even bother to send a reporter to Terrific didn’t get to be chair of Appropriations the hearing. Probably not on the “Things To 1 by being stupid. T he guy had a political future Do” list that clogs up their news section. | (and great hair), and it was a good bet he’d be a • Hey, is Filene’s open yet? Freeps publisher Jim I statewide candidate for something in 1998.

Carey showed up at Filene’s zoning board hear­ Then the bloody election got in the way, and a ing last week with dollar signs in his eyes. That Republican by the name o f H ull Maynard store is his paper’s future cash cow, if it gets nosed him out by two votes in the recount. here.

Reporter Sona Iyengar reported the pro­ Macaulay’s been kicking, scratching and biting ject got “mixed reviews,” quoting several oppo­ I ever since. But there is a silver lining. Macaulay’s nents including her boyfriend. Oops! f become a household word in Chittenden • Finally, kudos to the Freeps for having the C ounty and everywhere else in Vermont. Bravo! journalistic integrity not to delete the name of | Now if everyone will just forget why they know the paper’s business writer, Stacey Chase, from the Macaulay name, Tommy Terrific will be the list in Sunday’s paper o f Vermonters who « ahead o f the game in two years time. In politics, have filed for bankruptcy. Hear, hear! □ ya know, things change.

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j ERO GENO US ZO N IN G I The People vs. Shawn Cliche? ; In Burlington, its more like the Planning Commission versus j the City Council. As town after town adopts ordinances pro; hibiting public nudity in Vermont, the Queen City is torn over | porn — and where to put it. Planners are at odds with politi| cians over the most recent attem pt to regulate adult businesses | by prohibiting them from locating within a thousand feet o f any ! school, park, place o f worship, or other adult j business. “This is the first time I can recall j where the C ity Council has drafted an J ordinance in the zoning sphere,” planj ning commissioner W ayne Senville ! says o f the proposed am endm ent he | and his colleagues vehemently ! oppose. Progressive pols say they are ; simply trying to address “a public j problem” that is n o t going to go | away. “O u r objective is not to ptoj hibit these businesses outright, ! which would be unconstitutional,” ; says City Councilor Jane Knodell, ! “but to exert some control over J where they locate. Most people — ! maybe not all — feel uncomfortable | living with that kind o f business right | next to them .” “T h at kind o f business” is ! defined as one with “substantial or significant | portion o f its stock-in-trade depicting or describing specified j sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.” Vague enough to J ban the Bible, the planning commission warned in a rare and ! somewhat incendiary memo circulated in advance o f a public { hearing last Thursday. It also cautions that the act o f designating { areas for X-rated businesses could attract more sm ut than it j wards off. Its unanim ous disapproval was finalized in a “resolu• tion” last week. Still, if the City Council decides to move ahead, j it could mean a change o f address for adult businesses in 1 Burlington — whatever they are.

As town after town adopts ordi­ nances pro­ hibiting pub­ lic nudity in Vermont, the Queen City is torn over porn — and where to put it.

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j on to the top-secret Batman set and started taking pictures. Movie ! makers are transforming the granite quarry into a vertical glacier { — the not-so-hospitable home o f the villainous Mister Freeze, to j be played by Arnold “The Ice Man” Schwarzenegger. Mullins | thought the 350-foot ice floe would make “an interesting shot.” j So, apparently, did the Hollywood heavies. After confiscating his ! film, they showed MuUins the road. T hat’s rock ’n’ roll. . . “W hat J do you do if it’s winter in Vermont and you’re not a skier and you j don’t really like cold weather?” Cash in on your Caribbean roots J with a starry-eyed travel piece for The New York Times, o f course. | M iddlebuiy writer Julia Alvarez used that approach in a two-page j spread for the Times last Sunday — a walking tour o f Middlebury J that makes no mention o f Sorels. O r zoning disputes. It does gush j about how “all the shops line up like a street scene from one o f ! those Christmas cards you hate to throw out” and a quilt, coveted | at Frog Hollow, “that brings out the Goldilocks in you so you ! want to crawl in and fall asleep while three carved bears look on.” | Zzzzzz . . . M ark H auser doesn’t miss a beat. Five years after j Vermont Public Radio canceled his folk show, the ex-host o f “Rural j Rhythms” is still ripped. T he latest “public” insult? The implica; tion in a recent Rutland Herald article that he had a fair shot at j the jo b now held by R obert Resnik — host o f the new folk show, 1 “All The Traditions.” N ot so, Hauser responds in an angry letter | to the editor. He says his name was struck from a list o f three | potential hosts with no consultation from the Com m unity | Advisory Board, “There’s more to this story,” he writes. O h, good | . . . There are some lotteries you don’t want to win. Like the one ! depicted in the classic short story by Shirley Jackson, in which the * lucky “winner” gets stoned to death. Jackson wrote other stories, I now giving her a posthumous comeback since a cobwebbed carj ton o f her unpublished stories were found in a bam behind her ; old house — in N orth Bennington. T h e resulting book, Just an ! Ordinary Day, was edited by two o f her four children. Writer | Jonathan Lethem digs a little deeper in a story published last | week in the online magazine Salon. He suggests that Jackson, ! whose Jewish husband taught at Bennington College, felt perse; cuted in Vermont, by the “antisemitism and anti-mtellectuaiism | felt by the townspeople toward the college.” After the enormous | success o f “T he Lottery,” he writes, there arose “a legend around j town, almost certainly false, that Jackson had been pelted with j stones by schoolchildren one day, then gone home and written | the story.” A Htde Secret History goes a long way. □ January

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A c c o rd in g to s o c ia l p sy c h o lo g ist R ic h a r d D e G r a n d p r e , “w elln ess” is a l l in y o u r m in d Bv

Nancy S t e a r n s Bercaw

ho the hell do you think you are? Sort through the media’s images of who you should be. Measure them against the self that some say is determined by genetic makeup.

Cross-reference with the self your parents raised you to be.

And if you can’t stand your concocted self, you can always adopt a Prozac-induced per­ sona.

Or, you can ask Richard DeGrandpre, Ph.D ., visiting assistant professor o f psycholo­ gy at St. Michael’s College and prolific author on the subject of “health and self.” His forth­ coming book, The Changeable Self, co-written with well-pub­ lished psychologist Stanton Peele, challenges the recent wave o f behavioral genetic research and champions mind over gray matter.

DeGrandpre’s answer is this: You are who you think you are.

Stop blaming your genes, your Calvin Klein jeans, your inner child and your dysfunctional parents. Stop consoling ills by popping pills. In other words, get a hold o f yourself.

“It appears that as the world is becoming a more stressful, impersonal and harsh place,” explains the 32-year-old gradu­ ate of the University of Vermont, “people are more will­ ing to give up on their sense of self-determination and freedom, embracing instead crippling ideas about how childhood or genetic history predetermines one’s future.”

In D eG randpre’s view, the age-old question o f free will versus fate is best addressed by social critics, not maddening scientists. Biology lets us off the hook with the “my-genes-madem e-do-it” paradigm. Pop psy­ chology provides quick fixes for broken psyches. But sociology holds society accountable.

W hat we have on our hands is a cultural tragedy, he posits, and what we need is to change our minds about w hat’s im portant.

DeGrandpre doesn’t mean to sound like a motivational speaker, a spiritual guru or a patronizing shrink; he simply intends to prom ote genuine well-being over the guise o f well-becoming. His model is that hopelessness is a modern social construct fueled by the capitalist rat race.

In fact, he elucidates, it’s only the so-called advanced

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societies that suffer from sui­ cide, depression and like-mind­ ed problems — “the inevitable by-products of an inward, materialistic culture,” he says.

“If you’re caught up in keeping up with the Jones’, there is no solution. You can never achieve the romanticized version o f chronic bliss. It will always elude you.”

But people who simplify their lives, he adds, find that they gain a lot by losing a lot.

It’s the pursuit o f happiness that has made us unhappy. We’re miserable because there’s no fin­ ish line. The corporate American mandate is to con­ sume and to possess, which sends vastly conflicting mes­ sages to our heads. O ur society is now marked by dichotomous diseases: We weigh in with the highest incidences of both anorexia and obesity. eGrandpre believes we’re hurdling toward a giant national nervous break­ down. The trend almost 4‘ reversed itself in the ’60s when dropping out spawned new social orders like communal liv­ ing. But the ’90s seem ro be about opting out entirely. This is a decade o f self-indulgent angst where body piercing is perceived as the alternative and amphetamines are the panacea.

This is a time when your genes are the bad guy. This is a place where money talks and we lis­ ten to Prozac. This is your brain on hiatus.

“As the inside gets more and more shallow, the out­ side gets more and more decorated,”

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DeGrandpre cautions. “And as long as you only consider sim­ ple and easily adoptable solu­ tions, you’re not engaging the long-term struggle to reclaim some sane identity.”

Feeling that we’re losing our minds results from the extreme messages we receive. “There’s a tendency to polarize the narcis­ sistic self from the socially ori­ ented self. It has become a question of inwardness versus outwardness. Strike a balance between selfishness and selfless­ ness,” DeGrandpre recom­ mends. “Give up the roller­ coaster ride o f ambition to recover a mediated existence.”

The ultimate goal should be to change society, not individ­ ual perceptions. We can’t all be well until the trappings that make us sick are removed. A great deal of what Western medicine calls developmental problems are really social dis­ eases, according to D eG rand­ pre, who dismisses the rise of Attention Deficit Disorder as “a wholesale psychiatric m yth.”

“There always have been a few excessively hyperactive kids, but what I’m saying is that one of the behavioral by-products of this high-saturation population are new inattentive and hyper­ active children,” he explains.

“In a classroom setting where things don’t go that fast, stu­ dents fall into self-stimulation behaviors. Classrooms are out o f date with high-speed society.

But the answer is to slow down the world, not speed up the

change.” classroom.”

A one-dimensional Basically, we’re unable to Cosmetic Self — characterized feel at home with ourselves by high-tech, super-duper treat­ when external stimulation shuts ments — is emerging. We’re down. For evidence, DeGrand­ nipping and tucking, buying pre contrasts our current senso­ and selling, and kicking and ry-laden lifestyles with the turn screaming our o f the century, way to when the becoming just debut o f silent like everyone movies actually D eG randpre else. made people But the nauseous. obstacles are Today, even external and billion-dollar eternal. The thrillers can be dismisses the rise world just boring. Kicks isn’t worth just keep get­ being well for, ting harder to so we’ve find. found a num ­ o f A ttention ber o f reasons ertainly to justify our part of the perceived problem shortcomings, has been “pros­ and an equal thetic solu­ D eficit D isorder num ber o f tions.” Give a ways to over­ drug to solve a compensate. need, which W hat’s most creates further disturbing to as a uwholesale need. “Ritalin ^ DeGrandpre use has is this very increased 2.3 shift from the times since social com­ 1995,” psychiatric m y tti m unity to the DeGrandpre individualized points out. psychological “Pretty soon society which all parents will breeds marketable solutions like want their kids on it, which is drugs and other short-term far more likely to create an fixes. intolerance o f difference, rather than improved childhood well­ n r * orporate America does­ n’t make a buck on being,” he says. “W ith more social change. T he mes­ prosthetics available, it’s becom­ sage is, if it can’t be sold, then ing more acceptable to ridicule its not an option for change,” exceptional people he laments. “It seems we can’t than to have a moral society and a capi­ fight for talist one at the same time.” social T h e only cure will be a criti­ cal mass o f dissatisfaction, D eG randpre contends.

Everything else is a Band-Aid. “T h e new-age movement is a classic example o f American mm narcissism. It’s a cultural phe­ nom enon,” says the social psy-

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remove themrtt mainstream culture, t rituals, practices and ideals that are highly indi^ vidualistic, rather than re-organizing into social groups th at , can really care for each other.”

Apparently I’m okay, you’re okay, b u t the world isn’t. In the classroom, DeGrandpre tries to emphasize the power and influ­ ence o f social and historical forces on thought and action.

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through it ate all solid. The melodic sprigs seem almost too carefullyorchestrated, and a sameness runs through the entire collection here.

This is due in part to similar tempos, and to the limited vocal range of chief singer-songwriter (and drummer) Dave Wendell More .har­ monies frbm the other two vocalists — guitarist Joe Bowman and bassist Greg Goldman — would help. Jake _________ :_______ V; Lambertsons Hammond lends a nice vin; , tage roundness to the sound, though, " * r * '''***” ' ^ " demonstrated right off with an appealing ** opener, “Stylus of Id,” a catchy folk-rock< with oblique lyrics and good back-ups.

“Tranquil Meridian” has a vaguely Phishgotte-Ceitic air, but without die vibrancy that Anastasio and McConnell would surew i1 ly give it. “September Snow” is livelier, but -------------------------the dragging “Sugar, Wheat and Soul" i s simply deadly. Like many a so-called hippie band, Somah is better live, and will surely amass its own following with continued touring.

Decide for yourself this Saturday at Toast, when Somah plays with .

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released CD) — Guitarist Dayve Huckett and percussionist Dave Whittle, aka The Daves, have played together for years ’round about these parts, their fates thrown together by common names and, appar­ ently, a common vision of music in a mellow mood. Though no strangers to rock ’n’ roll, Dayve and Dave roll out the Pat Metheny carpet on their debut duo CD, Purple Walls & French Doors, which was recorded sans overdubs by the Daves 3 ^ and mixed/mastered by Chuck Eller, JphV. These 10 instrumentals stir together H 1 nimble classical and jazz guitarwork, DAVL W HITTLE ff ll both acoustic and electric, with pre* Jlf- M Y lypnoc‘c percussion — even a Dutch oven lid is credited. The CD is by turns a gentle soundtrack for the movement of clouds and something a ! (Pig little darker — rain clouds, maybe, f *' ^ Soft, ethereal and pacifying, Purple | n m Walls \s no Purple Haze, its watery, harmonic-filled melodies are just shy , t would not disturb the sereni ty of a good masexotic-sounding “When I Think of You I Feel So Strange” warms my cockles more than some of the plain-vanilla ^ • jw y ra ts .

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Though at first doctors thought he might lose the eye, word has it the Richmond Ratt’ler is recover­ ing just fine. But the CD release party had to be postponed. Fans can exchange their tickets for a Comedy Zone package at the Rad, get a refund, or, better yet, hold on for the rescheduled event on Saturday, February 8.

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Long-time XRay drummer Bruce McKenzie has left to beat the skins for the Derrick Semler Band, a local soulful blues unit on the rise.

Semler promises a new CD, Only Love, in our hot little hands anon... “Big Ed” Chester of the Canaan, Vermont-based Promised Land Records has announced the formation of a folk and bluegrass festival to accompany — and raise funds for — the hurtin’ Hardwick Fiddle Contest this summer. He’s looking for artists and sponsors; call 802-266-8839.

More on this later... Speaking of Promised Land: Big Ed has signed Burlington funkgroovesters Currently Nameless (despite their lack of name, hoho) to his tiny but proud label.

Nameless appears with Somah this weekend in Burlington (see review), Valentines Eve at Johnson State College with labelmates Bloozotomy... The young and ubiquitous Seth Yacovone has been invited to play at Harper’s Ferry Battle of the Blues in Allston, Mass., next July — winners go on to compete in the National Blues Society contest in Memphis. Yacovone plays his first central Vermont gig this Saturday in a new series at Montpelier City Hall called “Bands on the Run,” organized by the Onion River City Arts Council. □

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come from a family of aerobophobes. We all know the importance o f physical fitness. We get the connection between routine exercise and healthy bodies. Doctors, m ar­ keters and fitness publications are forever urging us to get off the couch and into shape. But for many o f us, the road from intellectual grasp to the jogging track is blocked by unpleasant memories o f sadistic “phys ed” teachers, sneering, towel-snapping classmates and baggy, unbecoming gym suits.

Ask my niece Anna, now a clothing retailer, what she remembers most from her gym class at Wilson Middle School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and she says, “the paddling.” Student squad leaders were supposed to report girls who didn’t get com ­ pletely undressed for their shower. But, Anna remembers, “In seventh grade there’s no way you’re going to show every­ one that you don’t need a bra yet. You’d get partly undressed, wrap a towel around yourself and run your hands under the water. If your squad leader liked you, you didn’t get report­ ed.” Anna got away w ithout

showering until the day the wrong boy showed an interest in her. “He was supposed to like my squad leader. So she reported me. I got to choose between a week’s detention or three whacks with the paddle. I chose the paddle.”

W hile paddling may not be a part o f everyone’s gym class memories, the locker room seems to have been the source o f personal mortification for many. More than 50 years have passed since my father-in-law braved his high school locker room in Des Moines, Iowa. But the retired microbiologist still recalls the hum iliation o f being a late bloomer. “I didn’t have hair in any o f the right places,” he sighs. “I remember that, and that horrible locker room smell.”

Teens and preteens can be among the earth’s crudest crea­ tures, as anyone who’s been one knows. Children at this sensi­ tive, insecure age are likely to perceive malice even in the absence o f overt hostility — especially in gym class. W ho can forget the agonizing ritual o f choosing sides? Two kids stand in the center o f the gym­ nasium and take turns calling C o n tin u ed on page 3 2

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O n any given Monday or f everything had gone as Thursday evening, M .D.s and planned, the People’s Health chiropractors, massage thera­ & Wellness Clinic wouldn’t pists and mental health coun­ be here anymore. No more doc­ selors, nurses and naturopaths tors, nurses and other healers share an innovative medical volunteering one evening a practice.

And besides caring for month. No more funky waiting patients, they’re building bonds room filled with yardsale furni­ among their diverse schools of ture. No place for low-income health care. folks to get health care at virtu­ “It’s exciting from my own ally no charge. personal point o f view — If everything had gone as there’s a real interest here to be planned, every Vermonter exposed to all these different would have ways o f doing guaranteed health care,” health insur­ says Mark ance by now, W h a t is r e m a r k ­ Yorra, an and the People’s internist who Health & Well­ a b le a b o u t th e donates his ness Clinic time at the would gladly be P e o p l e ’s C l i n i c is clinic. out o f business.

“This is a But on a th a t c o n v e n tio n a l model for Thursday health care and evening the d o c to r s a n d h o lis tic we’re all learn­ waiting room is ing from it,” full at the Barre p r a c titio n e r s a re adds Rob clinic — a Borowski, a reminder o f a w o r k i n g to g e th e r . chiropractor promise broken and chairman by the politi~ ' *rVr .. o f the clinic’s cians. board of direc­ T hat there’s tors.

“We can learn how to a demand for this facility is work with other providers, and hardly unusual; Vermont still in the meantime people get has an estimated 60,000 people helped.” without health insurance. W hat A lot o f people get help — is remarkable about the People’s about 30 an evening, which Clinic is that conventional doc­

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adds up to some 5000 visits since the clinic opened nearly three years ago. Its mission is to offer primary health care to uninsured and underinsured people, and to educate the cen­ tral Vermont community — patients and practitioners alike — about better health.

Six other clinics around Vermont offer health care for free or reduced prices, but none combines conventional and holistic medicine, says the clin­ ic’s more-than-full-time direc­ tor, Alison Underhill. W hile some providers might still be reluctant to embrace all other techniques, she says, there is a growing respect between con­ ventional and holistic healers.

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D onna Barden o f Barre vis­ its medical doctors and gets Reiki treatment from the clinic.

W ithout insurance for now, she has to be resourceful about health care: She once painted her acupressurist’s house in exchange for treatment.

Visiting last Thursday evening for stomach problems — possibly an ulcer — Barden lauded the idea o f diverse prac­ titioners under one roof. “I real­ ly like it because it’s holistic,” she said. “They’re just so in tune to people’s needs.”

About 15 medical doctors yolunteer at the clinic, along with 45 other professionals from hypnotists to dieticians to massage and craniosacral thera­

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield o f Vermont and Central Vermont Medical Center also contribute, recognizing that the clinic saves money by keeping uninsured people out o f more expensive hospital emergency rooms.

Although service at the People’s Clinic is free, patients are asked to contribute what they can afford — even if it’s.,;.; $1 per visit. Long-term patients are asked to help out around the clinic — with typing, fundraising or whatever they can do. This reflects the clinic’s philosophy o f encouraging patients to take responsibility C o n tin u ed on page 14

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Cynthia Because fu n draisin g or patients might Behrens and her family whatever they see any num ­ recently o f volun­ can do ber moved to teer providers, Vermont from the case m an­ Florida after ager can suggest the treatment her husband lost his job as strategy that works best. director o f safety at a trucking In spite o f its success, the company. Unable to find work People’s Clinic remains under­ in his field, hes taken a m an­ financed and has launched a agement job at M cDonald s, new fundraising effort. “We which doesn’t yet come with survive on contributions from health insurance. the communities we serve, and Living paycheck to paywe serve over 36 towns in cen­ check and trying to support tral Vermont,” Underhill says. four children on her husband s “If we don’t have any money salary, Behrens says: “I would real soon, we’re not going to be be sick and in pain” were it not here.” O v

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one, she teams up with the adorable 1990 World Middle W eight Cham pionship con­ tender Michael Olajide, Jr., who leads Smith and friends through an incredibly taxing aerobic/boxing workout. (O f course, I took Smith’s advice and just watched my first and only time through). This video definitely provides the most intense workout, the best soundtrack, and the coolest camera effects among the ones I watched. Smith’s come-hither looks are a bit much. But

list, but, hey, 40 minutes o f this intelligent, intense workout is enough to make your gluteus maximus more marvelous (this video earned Consumer Reports number one rating).

However, this work­ out requires a step, weights and a work­ out mat, none of which I have.

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M.L. KING READ-IN: Bring a poem, song or reflection to share in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The theme is “Zero Tolerance for Violence.” Bring a non-perishable item for the food shelf, too. Lower Level Atrium, Burlington Square Mall, 1-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7281.

‘POETRY OBSCURA’: This series of readings by emerging writers features local performance artists Jennifer Bloomfield and Chip Haggarty. Fletcher Library, Burlington^ 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7225.

BOOK DISCUSSION: Nancy Nahra makes an example of A Mother and Two Daughters to demonstrate how writers go about creating memorable characters. S. Burlington Library, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 652-7080.

‘LITERATURE OF RUSSIAN LIFE’: Kathleen Dana leads a discussion of A Journey for Our Time, by Marquis de Custine, about 19th-century Russia.

Joslin Library, Waitsfield, 9:30 a.m. Free.

Info, 496-4205.

kid s TEEN PARENT-CHILD GROUP: Teen moms hang out with their babies at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4420.

STORY TIM E: Those under three also hear songs at 11 a.m. Three- to five-yearolds also craft at 10 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216.

STORIES: Kids listen while they eat snacks and make crafts at the Children’s Pages, Winooski, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 655-1537.

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AN CIEN T FOREST PRESENTATION: Forest activists offer a multi-media pre­ sentation on the direct action uprising in the Pacific Northwest. Billings Theatre,

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‘FEAST OF SO N G ’: See January 15.

d r a m a ‘KISS O F T H E SPIDER W O M A N ’: This Tony Award-winning musical focus­ es on the friendship between two men in a Latin American prison. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $16-37. Info, 863-5966.

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CRAIG M ITCHELL: The solo artist reads from his new book at the Blue Couch Cafe, Burlington, 7 p.m.

Donations. Info, 865-5066.

SENIO R JOB M EETIN G: Folks over 55 looking for jobs or free training learn about employment options atTincoln Hall, Essex Junction, 10 a.m. - noon.

Free. Info, 879-0133.

CONSULTANTS N E TW O R K M EETIN G: Linda Bland of Cahoots Writing Services makes a case for “biasfree comm unication.” A tax focus group follows. Ham pton Inn, Colchester, 7:30 a.m. $10. Register, 351-0285.

SOIREE: Take your instrument and dancing shoes to a community party with a French accent. Wallflowers are also wel­ come at the Middlesex Town Hall, 7 p.m. $3. Info, 229-4668.

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W O M E N ’S ART GROUP: Women artists meet weekly for feedback, ideas and support. Burlington Waterfront, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 862-3269.

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W O O D LA N D TRACKING SLIDES: A field naturalist and wildlife biologist team up for an illustrated lecture on wildlife tracking. The follow-up field trip is Saturday, 12:30-4 p.m. Shelburne Farms Visitor Center, 7 p.m. $20 for both days. Register, 985-8686.

‘T H E ARTS IN AMERICA’: Music man Bob Peskin returns to Middlebury with a lecture entitled, “The Arts in American Society: W hat We Have, W hat We’re at Risk of Losing and W hat You Can Do About It.” Twilight Auditorium, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-5198.

NATUROPATHY TALK: Lorilee Schoenbeck describes what nature-based medical treatments can do. Ilsley Library, Middlebury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 388-4095.

‘FEAST O F SO N G ’: See January 15.

PIANO RECITAL: A student recital by Rubiana Chamarbagwala features works

by Chopin, Brahms and Liszt. Concert Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free.

Info, 443-6433.

d a n c e LATINO DANCE PARTY: A “live Latin deejay” serves up the salsa. Sunset Ballroom, Quality Suites, S. Burlington, 9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 658-4594.

DANCE CONCERT: Award -winning student dancer Kate Kerschbaum explores the feelings o f individuals trying to find their way in this world. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College U enter for the Arts, 8 p.m. $4. Info, 443-6433.

TWYLA TH A RP DANCE COMPANY: Choreographer Twyla Tharp is known for her rigorous, albeit loose-limbed, approach to modern dance.

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MUSICAL STORY TIM ES: Folks under three listen at 10 a.m. All ages hear tales at 10:30 a.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free. Info, 865-7216.

STORY H O U R : Toddlers listen to sto­ ries at the Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

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STORY TIM E: Folks over three listen at the Fletcher Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216.

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Info, 862-5396.

‘W HY R E N T ’ TALK: W hy rent when you can co-op? People committed to building community get a one-hour introduction to a housing alternative.

Co-op Federation, Burlington, noon.

Free. Info, 660-0637.

LESBIGAY YO U TH SU PPORT M EETING: Young lesbian, bisexual, gay and “questioning” folks are welcome.

Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 800-4522428.

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SETH YACOVONE BLUES BAND: The 17-year-old boy wonder plays Chicago-style blues for your dancing pleasure. Proceeds benefit the Onion River Arts Council. Montpelier City Hall, 8 p.m. $8. Info, 800-639-1383.

BLUES HA RM O N ICA & GUITAR: Walter Liniger plays blues harmonica and guitar at the Concert Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

ITALIAN BAROQUE CONCERT: The Artona Baroque Players play Corelli, Locatelli, Ariosti and Scarlatti on period instruments. Grace United Methodist Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $10.

Info, 800-805-5559. A talk begins at 7 p.m.

d a n c e DANCE CONCERT: See January 17.

TWYLA THARP: See January 17.

Tonight Dartmouth faculty members lead a 7 p.m. discussion.

JEH KULU DANCE & DRUM THEATRE: The African-inspired troupe presents its first full-evening perfor­ mance. Alumni Hall, Hauke Center, Champlain College, Burlington, 8 p.m. $5-10. Info, 862-6727. Tickets available at Pure Pop. BALLROOM DANCE: A one-hour cha cha lesson gets you into the swing, tango and foxtrot. Dress informally. Fred Tuttle

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‘PERSEPHONE U N B O U N D ’: 8 p.m. Fairfax. $10 per class, $25 for supplies. Info, 849-2226. A dults rediscov­ er childhood— and gain self-expression skills — through watercolor ana drawing.

SHELBURNE CRAFT SC H O O L Morning, afternoon and evening classes available. Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne. Info, 985-3648. Offering classes in woodworking weaving paperture fo r children a n d adults.

ING: Mondays. Beginners, 5:306:30 p.m. Intermediates, 6:30-7:30 p.m. $8 per class. Info, 656-1636. Learn the Lindy Hop, the original style o f swing.

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INTRO TO STAINED GLASS: Saturday, January 25 or February 22, 9 a.m. - 5 p.tn. Frog Hollow, Burlington, $93. Register, 863-6458. Design and complete a fla t panel. \ A BEADED BAG: Saturday, 6458. Learn traditional beading stiches While you’re a t it.

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MS WORD: Four sessions starting Monday, January 20. Old North End Community Tech Center, 6-8:30 p.m. $119. Info, 860-4057.

MASTER CLASS: Tuesday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. Burlington. $15. Register, 863-8778. A fter the Flynn performance,

January 22, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. College St. Congregational Church, 265 College St. - across from YMCA. Free. Info 3881376. No dance experience necessary Taught by Juliana O’B rien M .S. W , M .

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‘SAFE SEX 301: BEYOND THE BASICS’: Wednesday, January 15, 6:30 p.m. Fletcher Library, Burlington. Free.

Info, 863-2:437. Gay and bisexual men hear the latestfrom the M ens Health Projet.

PREGNANCY: Thursday, January 16, 2:30-4 p.m. Wheeler School, Burlington. Free. Info, 860-4420, Get answers to your questions.

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TH E ‘SCENTUOUS’ HERBALIST: Sunday, January 19, 1-3:30 p.m. Purple Shutter Herbs, Burlington. $20. .Register, 865-HERB. Go beyondflowers ana candyf i r Valentines Day. Custom blend massage oils, bath salts and exotic liqueurs.

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VIPASSANA MEDITATION: Sundays, 10-11 sum. Burlington Yoga Studio.

Free. Info, 658-YOGA. MEDITATION: First & third Sundays, 10 a.m. - noon. Burlington Shambala Center. Free. Info, 658-6795. Instructors teach non-sectarian and Tibetan Buddhist practices.

J IN CH ILD H O O D’S BODY’: Six Saturdays, January 25, February & Match 8 & 22, April 19, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Body Music, Burlington. $300. Info, 860-2814. Parents a n d teachinnovative i

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ADVANCED REAL ESTATE: January 19 & 20. Woodbury College, Montpelier. $220. Register, 229-0516.

Learn about A ct 250 disclosure statements, subdivision, title insurance, firelosure pro­ cedures and commercial transactions.

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H W A Y U TA IC H I: Winter and spring classes in Montpelier and Hardwick are beginning now. Register, 456-1983.

Instructor Ellen Hayes has two decades o f experience.

TAI CHI: Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m, & 8-9 p.m. Food For Thought, Stowe. $10.

Info, 253 4733. John DiCarlo leads ongo­ ing classes.

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BUILD A W INDSOR CHAIR: January 20 - February 19, evenings. The Wood School, Burlington. Info, 8644454. Learn chairmaking skills while building your own fin b a ck Windsor chair.

Timothy Clark, cabinetmaker and chairwright, teaches.

DAYTIME BEGINNING W O OD­ WORKING: Thursdays, January 23 April 24, 2:30-4 p.m. The Wood School, Burlington. Info, 864-4454.

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TEEN WOODWORKING: Thursdays, January 23 - April 24, 45:30 p.m. p.m. The Wood School, Burlington. Info, 864-4454. Girls and boys over 12 learn hand tool skills while m aking a high Windsor stool

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WRITER’S WORKSHOP: Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Blue Couch Cafe, Burlington.

Donations. Info, 865-5066. Bring a journal and your writing spirit.

JA & MEDITATION: Fridays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Old Brick Church, Williston. $10. Info, 879-4195. Start your weekend o ff in peace. Green M ountain Learning Center presents teacher Larry White. Take a pillow or blanket YO G A Daily, Burlington Yoga Studio, 174 Main St. Info, 658-YOGA Classes are ojfiredin Astanga, lyengpr, Kripalu andB ikram styles. Beginners can start anytime.

‘FEAST O F SO N G ’: See January 15.

JAZZ OCTET: Student composer, arranger and guitarist Jason Ennis pre­ sents standards and originals, with help from Fred Haas and some Berklee bud­ dies. Concert Hall, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-6433.

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BIOGRAPHY DISCUSSION SERIES: Historian Willard Sterne Randall leads the discussion of Washington: The Indispensable Man, by James Thomas

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‘T H E ABENAKI & T H E ELLIOT D E C ISIO N ’: Several years ago the Vermont Supreme Court decided there was no such thing as an Abenaki. A forum looks at the state o f native rights.

Unitarian Church, Burlington, 12:30 p.m. Free. Info, 863-2345.

MANAGED CARE LECTURE: An authority on the ethics and economics of managed health care, Uwe Reinhardt talks about the Vermont Health Plan and its role in our health care future.

Sheraton Burlington Conference Center, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 656-2886.

VIETNAM ESE N E W YEAR CELEBRATION: Celebrate the new year, Vietnamese-style, at a savory benefit for the Flynn Theatre. Expect entertain­ ment and a silent auction at the Sai-gon Cafe, Burlington, 6 p.m. $50.

Reservations, 863-5966.

VEGETARIAN POTLUCK: Take a dish for eight with no meat, poultry, fish, meat broth or gelatin. List the ingredi­ ents and take a place setting to the Williston Coffeehouse, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 453-3945.

ASTANGA YOGA: Kathy McNames introduces the complete first series and emphasizes how to create a personal practice. Burlington Yoga Studio, 1-4 p.m. $20. Register, 658-YOGA.

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O PEN DISCUSSION: Audience mem­ bers are invited to an discussion o f first installment of the Waterfront Project, followed by a regular training session for performers only. Lobby, Memorial Auditorium, 9:30-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7144.

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Church, Burlington, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. $75. Info, 863-2300.

CAFE O PEN IN G : Cafe No No is no more. Celebrate its reincarnation as a funky, non-profit, privately-owned com­ munity center. Arts and the Internet still converge at the Blue Couch Cafe, Burlington, 5 p.m. $5. Info, 865-5066.

TRACKING TRIP: There are stories in the snow. Bring snowshoes and sensible clothing on a tracking trip sponsored by the Vermont Wetlands Association. Meet at Richmond Park & Ride, noon - 4 p.m. Free. Info, 482-2028.

GAME DINNER: The Vermont Folldife Center benefits when you make a meal o f moose, venison, elk, bear and ante­ lope. Door prizes, storytelling and fiddle music are included. Eagles Hall, Vergennes, 6-9 p.m. $18. Reservations, 388-4964.

‘BACKBENDS & T W ISTS’: Larry W hite teaches the yoga crowd how to arch. Burlington Yoga Studio, 1-3 p.m. $20. Register, 658-9642.

FISHER HIKE: A strenuous hike tracks the elusive Vermont Fisher — the wild cat known to eat domestic ones. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $18. Register, 457-2779.

SLEIGH RIDE W EEKEND: Huge draft horses pull you through historic fields. You can also tour the livestock barns and farm house at Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $6. Info, 457-2355.

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Info, 658-0337 ext. 297.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. TALK: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, the author of From God to Gangsta Rap offers a tribute to the Civil Rights leader. St. Michael’s Chapel, Colchester, 3 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2535.

‘RACISM IN V E R M O N T ’: Sociologist James Loewen, author of Lies M y Teacher Told Me, discusses the eugenics move­ ment in a lecture called “Racism in Vermont: A Microcosm of the United States.” Pavilion Auditorium, Montpelier, noon and Fletcher Library, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 828-2291.

TEEN HEALTH CLINIC: Teens get information, supplies, screening and treatment for sexually related problems.

Planned Parenthood, Burlington, 3:30-6 p.m. Pregnancy testing is free. Info, 863-6326.

EM OTION S AN ONYM OUS: People with depression, anxiety and other emo­ tional problems meet at the O ’Brien Center, S. Burlington, 7:30 p.m.

Donations. Info, 660-9036.

STORY H O U R: Kids between three and five engage in artful educational activi­ ties. Milton Public Library, 10:30 a.m. 8c 1 p.m. Free. Info, 893-4644.

etc PEACE CORPS TALK: Fifty-sevenyear-old Preb Stritter is a walking exam­ ple: the Peace Corps is not just for young people. She shares slides and stories from Nepal and Eastern Europe, as well as from a recent trip around the world.

Burnham Memorial Library, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Register, 879-7576.

PROPERTY TAX REFORM FORUM: Property tax reform is the focus of a Progressive-sponsored public forum.

Christ Church Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-5118.

SIERRA CLUB SLIDE SHOW: Richard Hoffman shares his impressions of the controversial Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Burlington, 7 p.m. Free. Info and location, 229-0261.

BEREAVEMENT SU PPO RT GROUP: Find comfort in the company of others who are grieving. Adult Day Center, Visiting Nurses Association, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 658-1900.

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OPEN REHEARSAL: The Amateur Musicians Orchestra welcomes new play­ ers, especially ones with brass instru­ ments. No audition is required. Music Room, S. Burlington High School, 7:30 p.m. $5- Info, 985-9750.

d a n c e MUMMENSCFLANZ: Mum’s the word.

Three mimes use inanimate objects — rolls of toilet paper, tubes, huge balloons — to create wordless stories of wit and whimsy. Flynn Theatre, Burlington, 7:30 p.m. $12-24.50. Info, 863-5966.

kids ‘BABIES 1 & 2’: A parent-child play group meets at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Free.

Info, 860-4420. » ‘FATHERS 8c CH ILD REN T O G E T H E R ’: Spend quality time with your kids and other dads at the Wheeler School, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free.

Info, 860-4420.

ARMY BAND CONCERT: In recogni­ tion of “Farmer Night,” the Vermont Army Band piays Copland, Bernstein, Sousa, Bennett and Vermont composer David Myers. Vermont Statehouse, Montpelier, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 654-0480.

DREW SEMINARY C H O IR: The New Jersey theological school chorus sings classical, gospel and contemporary works.

Trinity Church, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free.

Info, 229-9158.

d a n c e ‘FREE SPIRIT DANCE’: See January 15.

CO N TA CT IMPROV: See January 15.

CARIBBEAN DANCE COMPANY: They come from the Virgin Islands, and their mission is to preserve, perform, teach and research the dance heritage of the West Indies. Dance Theatre, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, 8 p.m. $9. Info, 443-6433.

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skiing as a youngster bombing down the short, steep slopes of the Lyndonville O uting Club in the Northeast Kingdom. Skiing meant speed, weightless moments, thrills. From age five to 16, Cleveland jum ped at every chance to ski and race.

“I qualified for the state championships in skiing every year from sixth grade to 16,” Cleveland recalls. T he last time he qualified, 1992, was the year he got his driver’s license. It was also the year he crashed his motorcycle and fractured a ver­ tebra in his lower back.

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But like skiers everywhere, Cleveland retained the desire to challenge himself on the slopes.

Friends and former ski coaches who came to see him in the hospital’s rehabilitation unit brought word about an adap­ tive ski program down in southern Vermont. “Before I even got home from the hospi­ tal,” Cleveland says, “I knew I’d be able to ski again someday.”

Today, Cleveland uses subtle movements o f his upper body

disabled skiers and VASS pro­ gram graduates. Sugarbush vol­ unteer Karin Weston, for instance, got her introduction to skiing through the Ascutney program when it first began.

Now a skilled skier and instruc­ tor, Weston teaches fellow amputees how to ski on one leg using “outriggers” — special poles equipped with mini-skis — for support and balance.

It’s hard to tell who gets more from the experience, par­ ticipants or instructors. Eileen Siminger works with disabled children on and off the slopes.

“Just to see the look in their faces,” she says, “it’s excitement, joy and awe that they can do something like that.”

‘B efore I even g o t home T h at “some­ thing,” participants agree, is more than just skiing; it’s the fro m the hospital I knew freedom to move under one’s own power with rhythm, speed and grace.

I ’d be able to ski again “For a lot o f people the limiting factor is the speed o f the wheelchair,” Fleming observes. “You get someday. on a mono-ski and a lot o f guys shake, rattle and roll down — J eff Cleveland the hill.”

This winter Jeff Cleveland will be one of them. Four years after his last ski race, he plans to get back into also acknowledges the support the starting gate in a race host­ of Mad River Valley com m uni­ ed by VASS. It won’t be the ty groups in buying the expen­ state championships, but you sive special ski equipment. But, with three or four people some­ can bet he’ll be pushing his lim­ its, anyway. □ times needed to get one partici­ pant going, it’s the volunteers For more information on how that make teaching disabled ski­ to participate or volunteer in pro­ ing possible. “There’s no pro­ grams run by the Vermont gram without the volunteers,” Adaptive Ski & Sports, call 583Fleming says.

4283 (Sugarbush) or 484-3525 All the lessons are taught by (Ascutney).

VASS volunteers trained in the finer points o f teaching adap­ tive skiing. N ot surprisingly, some o f the instructors are also

as horseback rid­ ing, rock climbing and canoeing.

As diverse as these sports may seem, the common denom inator is that they’re “lifetime” activities that can be learned and enjoyed by people o f any age. T he challenge for VASS, Fleming says, is simply to eliminate the barriers to recreation. “T h at’s why it’s ‘adaptive,’” she says. “It’s not so much the equipm ent as whatev­ er it takes to get them out.”

Fleming credits the generos­ ity o f Sugarbush for making space and complimentary lift tickets available to VASS, and

to carve turns on a mono-ski — a sit-ski device which is essen­ tially a bucket seat with a shock absorber m ounted over a single ski. “O n a mono-ski you can ski everything: bumps, trees, powder,” Cleveland explains.

Regardless o f equipment, the attraction to the sport is the same for all skiers, he says.

“The way the ski works, it’s the same concept, the same thrill — a better thrill, really.”

Over the 10 years VASS has existed, thousands o f disabled skiers like Cleveland have been able to experience the thrill of skiing. The current blizzard of

DOWNHILL FROM HERE A mono-skier takes to the slopes at Sugarbush. and equipm ent rental programs to simply helping people nego­ tiate a wheelchair through snow-filled parking lots, VASS will do whatever it takes to get a person out on the slopes, says Fleming. “We serve anyone with any limiting disability,’’ she says. “Although they will tell you that there are no lim it­ ing disabilities, only attitudes.”

O ne person whose attitude knows no limits is Jeff Cleveland. A 20-year-old for­ mer ski racer, Cleveland first fell in love with the sport o f

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FABRICATED AND REVISED, featuringw ork by 15 contem porary New York painters. Fleming Museum, University o f Vermont, Burlington, 656-0750. January 21-April 20.

ANDY WARHOL : SELECTIONS, drawings, paintings and prints from the permanent collection and the Andy Warhol Museum. M iddlebury College Museum o f Art, 443-5007. Through February 23.

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MESSAGES FROM THE INTERIOR, a group exhibit o f abstract works on paper and sculpture by seven regional artists, including UVM art professor Frank Owen. Chaffee C enter for the Visual Arts, Rutland, 775-0356. Through February 9.

VERMONT ARTISTS TAKE ACTION! a mul­ timedia exhibition celebrating m otion, sound, vision an d viewer interaction. Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, 865-7165. Through February 9.

GLIMPSES, oil monotypes by Susan Osmond.

Shayna Gallery, Montpelier, 229-2766. Through January, ROCK POINT ART, work by the students o f Rock Point School. Last Elm Cafe, Burlington, 658-7454. T hrough January. m onoprm ts by Jon Roberts. W orking uesig Gallery at the Men’s Room, Burlington, 864-2088.

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LUMINOUS LAMPS & LANTERNS, an exhibit o f table lamps, oil lamps and other unique hand­ made lighting. Vermont Clay Studio, Montpelier, ISLAND IREASURE I f the Caribbean 223-4220. Through January. sounds like a beach-filled playground to JEROME COUELLE, paintings by the FrenchNortherners, the regions artists tell a differ­ born self-taught artist. Clarke Galleries, Stowe, 253ent story — and in the process reveal both 7116. T hrough January. the diverse cultures and common conscious­ COLLABORATIONS, collaborative non-objective ness from this scattering o f island nations. paintings by m other-daughter artists Abigail Foulk “Caribbean Visions"displays contemporary and N ora Wasserman, and OIL LANDSCAPES by paintings and sculptures at the Middlebury Pamela Betts, Green M ountain Power, South College Museum o f Art through March 9.

Burlington, 864-1557. Through January.

Above, “Codfish Throne with Joshua Tree CLARK RUSSELL WORKS 1984-1996, a ret­ rospective o f mixed media sculptures. Exquisite Spines, ” by Jamaican artist Albert Chong.

Corpse Artsite, Jager DiPaola Kemp Design, Bur­ lington, 864-8040, Ext. 121. Through February 7.

CARIBBEAN VIS IO NS : C ontem porary Painting and Sculpt ure. Christian A. Johnson Gallery, M iddlebury College, 443-5007. T hrough M arch 9.

DURER TO MATISSE, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins M useum . H ood Museum o f Art, D artm outh College, Hanover, N .H . (603) 646-2808. T hrough M arch 2.

BOOKS IN ART/ART IN BOOKS, an exhibit focusing on the art and iconography o f the book in 15th- through 17th-century Europe. H ood M useum, see above. Through March 9.

CHACO RUINS, images o f New Mexico, oil paintings by Helen Maffei Bongiovanni. Coyote Cafe, Burlington, 426-3273. Ongoing.

COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE, mixed media marmalade o f local Vermont artists and beyond.

Java Love, Burlington, 864-3414. Through March 4.

I NTERNATIONAL ART gallery featuring 35 artists in mixed media. Integrity Arts International, Cornerstone Building, Burlington, 860-7000. O ngoing exhibits o f artists from Vermont and around the world.

DAVID BETHUEL JAMIESON PAINTINGS 1987 - 1991, works by the late UVM student.

Fleming M useum , University o F fetm o n t, Burlington, 656-0750„Through March 2, g§ ORIGINS AND PATTERNS, an exhibit o f prints and photographs by Canadian artist Lydia Sharman. McAuley Fine Arts C enter Lobby, Trinity College, Burlington, 658-0337, ext. 204.

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FINE PRESS A R T I S T S ' BOOKS in the 20th century, featuring edition books from Janus, Circle, Ren H en, Beo, Elm and other fine presses. Fleming Museum, W ilbur Room, University o f Vermont, Burlington, 656-0750. T hrough January 26.

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“I wanted to bring [the chil­ dren] a sense of community and interconnectedness,” says Foster. “They get it better than adults.” Case in point: A stickfigure drawing of Oscar the Grouch — one source of Foster’s inspiration — by her three-year-old grandson. “He said, Put your hand on him and give him all your prob­ lems,”’ she recalls.

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“I asked the children to close their eyes and see their hearts filled with love and laughter,” says Foster o f her first visit to the school, “then open their eyes and draw a picture giving something to my patients. I told them my patients were very ill, but making them well was about more than medicine; it’s about giving them love.”

Last weekend dual recep­ tions at Integrity — where stu­ dents got flowers from principal Barry Mieggs and a song from Mona’s chanteuse Karen Kennedy — and the hospital displayed the results and brought art to the ailing. O f the 60 who participated, 32 sent framed work to the cardiac unit; the remaining paintings will grace other areas o f the hospital or the school’s hallway.

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But while many non-swim­ ming adults would like to become more comfortable in the water, the decision to enroll in a class is often difficult.

Carol Hewitt, a Burlington piano teacher whose students include many adults, gained a deeper appreciation o f her own students’ experience when she joined the beginners’ Bronze Class at the Y. “It takes a lot o f courage to take any kind of

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W ithout a lifeguard on duty, no one You promised to noticed Emily’s crisis get in shape, until, choking and swallowing water, spend more time she finally managed w ith fam ily to grab the edge. “I felt betrayed,” she and give recalls, “like no one som ething back was taking care o f to the m e.” community.

Emily harbored her sense o f betrayal Luckily, w ith and distrust o f the a YM CA water into wom an­ m em bership you hood. Then, six can do all three. years ago, as an adult living in Life is complicated. Even the best intentioned of us Burlington, she still cut corners and make sacrifices. A Y M C A decided to confront membership allows you to get more out of your her fear. “I thought, daily routine while focusing on some of the more ‘I live by this beau­ meaningful things in life. Family, fitness and community. tiful lake and I can’t go in it.’ I was BOLD STROKES Adults learn to swim at the ashamed o f myself.”

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January 20-March 2 reserved for the Happy Meals YMCA Aquatic Director set: beginners’ swimming • Aerobics • Swim Lessons • Martial Arts Mike Jacoby, who has 20 years’ lessons.

• Water Exercise • 50 plus Fitness • Sports experience teaching adults to Millions o f people reach swim, claims that students adulthood w ithout knowing C all now to enroll! progress more quickly when how to swim. Some, like Emily, they learn in groups. “They can became shy of the water The Greater Burlington YMCA see each other, they cooperate because o f a bad experience.

266 College Street 862-9622 and support each other. W hen Kristina Teachout, w ho teaches I® We build strong 4cids, strong families, strong communities. someone accomplishes some­ aquatics at the Racquet’s Edge in Essex, has encountered scores thing, everyone cheers.”

But most adult swimming o f adults whose parents threw students prefer the one-on-one them into deep water before approach.

Besides averting the they could swim, believing the embarrassment o f exposure in a skill would come to them auto­ group setting, private lessons matically. Dave Miller, a South can be structured to meet a stu­ Burlington resident who became a swimmer at the age o f dent’s particular needs.

Individual instruction allowed 65, was barred from swimming Bill Dove, who took up swim­ pools as a child because his par­ ming after retiring to Vermont, ents feared exposing him to to concentrate exclusively on polio. his backstroke and rhythmic Others never learned breathing.

For Eastman, private because they lived far from any lessons m eant having a teacher swimmable water, or because who encouraged her to talk they grew up in a culture that about her childhood experience either didn’t stress swimming or And you w an t to q u it sm o k in g , and created exercises designed specifically disallowed it. Ann a UVM re sea rch stu d y ca n o ffer you to neutralize her remembered Vannucci, who teaches at Twin trauma.

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W hether someone does bet­ encountered such a prohibition ter beginning with a back float in 1994, when she taught Call tod ay to fin d o u t if you qualify. or a front float, the real key to swimming to women in the swimming is learning to trust Turk and Caicos Islands in the the water. All instructors use a Caribbean. “This island was variety o f techniques to help three miles wide, but the THE UNIVERSITY OF their students overcome this women weren’t supposed to crucial hurdle. Jacoby plays into swim. I couldn’t advertise my his mature students’ ability to classes with posters because the

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Though fear o f the water and faulty techniques are harder to overcome in adults than in children, people who have spent a lifetime wishing they could swim tend to be far more motivated than their younger counterparts, and much more appreciative o f the results.

“If you tune in and listen,” Dove says, “you’re way ahead of the kids. W hen you get to be my age, you don’t have much time. You have to get right into •it. » □ _ Adults interested in getting into the swim can fin d instructors at several area pools. A t the YMCA in Burlington, the next six-week beginners class starts January 20. Private lessons are also available. Call 862-9622.

The Racquet’s Edge in Essex offers private weekly half-hour lessons as well as month-long group lessons Monday evenings.

The next series begins February 3. Call 879-7734.

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Harrelson stretches his acting muscles in the tide role, but it’s the thespian eq; taking the stairs instead o f the elevator. The film asks little more o f him than to wear a succession tfits and, in the last hour or so, to effect an imitation o f Fiynt’s post-gunshot wound rasp that so teYvatt after being booted in the testicles.

The picture pulls out all the stops in its attempt to paint the H ustler publisher iderstood, visionary crusader for First Amendment rights, but it’s dear the guy possesses the red si etics o f a middleaged Elvis, the social consciousness o f a pimp, and an interest in the American that is born o f a preference to not go to jail. Are we actually expected to take this weasel seriously?

Courtney Love is being called an Oscar contender for her performance as Flynt’ and equally sleazy wife. Are we actually expected to take her seriously because she makes a conv____,p , _____ T he script plays fast and loose with the facts o f Fiynt’s life, and purports to reveal his full complexity, but ignores many o f the forces that doubdessly shaped him. For example, a destructive relationship with his mother, who was known to “run around” indiscriminately. Gee, could that have influenced his opinion o f women? And, while the picture presents a Larry Flynt congenitally opposed to authority, it fails to note that he ’ eagerly enlisted in the military — twice.

But the biggest fib is that Flynt waged a legal batde all the way to the Supreme Court in order to protect freedom o f speech for you and me. Nonsense. H is big case was a simple libel matter brought about by a parody ad involving the Rev. Jerry Falwell, and Flynt wasn’t trying to protect anyone but himself.

Have we have nothing better to concern ourselves with than a millionaire smut magnate? As Harrelson squawks in one o f the films multiple being-dragged-to-jail scenes, “All I do is publish a magazine."

3. ESCAPE FROM L.A.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY Jane ( The Piano) Campion bri ngs the Henry James book to the big screen with fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman in die role o f an American who embarks on a journey o f self-discovery across Europe. With Barbara Hershey and John Malkovich.

SHINE Geoffrey Rush stars in the true story o f piano prodigy David Helfgott, who cracked up big-time, was institutionalized for years, and returned CO play another day. C ^ ta m n g T y p tf Stahi. ' ^ !>v i ■.

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THE RELIC ( NC ) The names “Penelope Ann Miller” and “Tom Sizemore” may be the only ones above the tide, but the real star o f this horror story is effects legend Stan W inston, w ho designed the whatever-it-is responsible for a rash o f gruesome murders in a Chicago natural history museum.

EVIT A (N R ) What we have here is director Alan Parkers adaptation o f Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical version o f the life o f Eva Peron. What makes me so sure M adonnas overhyped behind-thescenes maneuvers in pursuit o f the title role will turn out to be more entertaining than the Jonathan Pryce and that le g e n d ^ song stylist, Antonio Bandetas.

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ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): In the magazine Stone Shoes, novelist William Vollman suggests that just about the most important and enjoyable thing in life is “doing something that’s a complicated, tricky problem for you that you don’t know how to solve.”

Vollman is famous for his ability to sustain a high level o f intensity, so he probably lives according to this principle most o f the time. The rest o f us may only be able to manage that in j spurts. I’ve got to say, though, that the j coming weeks could very well be one j o f those spurts for you.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-M ay 20): According to H arper’s Index, no women appeared on the cover o f any newsweekly magazine in 1995 unless j they were a princess, murderer or model. Research on 1996 isn’t complete yet, but early data indicate a similar pattern. I will broach this prediction concerning 1997, however: | At least three non-royal, non| homicidal, non-fashion-doll females [ will smash the embargo, and they will : all be Tauruses. In fact, there’s a 50-50 | chance one o f these women will make | the leap during the next four weeks.

I As for the rest o f you Taurus women: | Seek an equivalent breakthrough soon.

I Taurus men: Prod your inner female | into cracking an inner glass ceiling.

L (May 21-June 20): Long ago in the English town o f Kidderminster there was a holiday [ called “Lawless H o u r” Held betwet £3 and 4 p.m., it gave cel 1 ’* |;to hurl cabbage stalks with impunity. I wot

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designate it for next Monday between 3 and 4 p.m. Seeing as how cabbage stalks are hard to come by these days, how about if you substitute whipped cream and maraschino cherries?

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Both Freud and the fundamentalists are right. Repression is a good thing when it involves the stifling o f dangerous impulses. If you feel like slapping your boss over the head with a broom, for instance, it’s better if you stop yourself.

On the other hand, both Freud and the fundamentalists are wrong, too.

Repression o f healthy desires that threaten no one is a downright sin.

For example, you can’t imagine what glorious strokes o f fate you might abort this week if you fail to heed impulses to careen in the direction o f more extravagant pleasure.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): It’ll be a bad week to purchase toys made by political prisoners in China or pants made in Salvadoran sweatshops. It’ll be an equally terrible week to try curing a blue m ood with a shopping spree or to ransom your future for the sake o f a passing fancy. It will, however, be a have you done for me lately?” to a

you’ve got to find a way to be graceful in inelegant situations. Like Jack Ryan, who designed missiles for the Pentagon and also created the Barbie doll, you should be primed to show your artistry on both battlegrounds and playgrounds.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When she was a teenager, my friend Babushka used to wear curlers to bed every night so her hair would be bouncy when she went to school the next morning. Naturally this was grossly uncomfortable. It was hard to find a position on the pillow where the cylindrical metal gadgets wouldn’t gouge her skull. What motivated her to endure? Her mother’s war cry was an important prod: “Beauty must suffer!” I’ve always thought that phrase had far-reaching metaphorical implications beyond its obvious meaning. And now, as you Librans struggle to bring more grace and lyrical power into your life, I’m tempted to offer it up to you as a temporary mantra.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every day, you wade through a teeming babble o f information. This cloud o f noise coming at you from the media is so vast and relendess that it’s a miracle you’re ever able to filter out the tiny percentage o f data that’s truly useful. All too often, o f course, you

listening to reggae music in an elevator, you must now learn to accommodate juxtapositions o f funkiness and artificiality. Like £ medical technician whose job it give a queen a coionic irrigation

you desperately need a goofy relea; Instead o f ‘'Lawless Hour,” though let’s call it “Slaphappy Hour,” and

recommend periodic media fasts, during which you abstain from all radio, TV, newspapers, magazines and movies. The next five days would be a perfect time for you to do just that.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22 -Dec. 21): Sagittarian Walt Disney was famous for saying, “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known.” In a related vein, my old Sagittarian lover Molly once told me, “I’d much rather argue with you about quantum physics and Hegelian philosophy and the politics o f health care than waste our time talking about all our trivial little feelings.” And then there’s my Sagittarian friend Darren, who’s fond o f joking, “W hy worry about today when the future is so much more interesting?” W hile I’m able to appreciate the charm in all these testimonies, I must inform you that they’re the worst possible role models for you right now. As I see it, your astrological assignment is to do the exact opposite.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): David HelJ Hdlerstein has reported that Prozac hik< monkeys, t :reby boosting their tendency t< around. In sponse to this research, scores o f C taken to pc as well. Bui id Prozac

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The X-Files” Dana Scully recently reminded Fox Mulder o f a wise insight he’d once spoken, and when I heard it I immediately felt a fervent urgency to convey it to you: “A dream is an answer to a question we have not yet learned how to ask.” Nothing else I could tell you this week is more important than that. Your night dreams will be more vivid and useful than they’ve been in months, and your daydreams will be full o f hot leads that could help uncover the juiciest questions o f the year.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): The scene: a mother and eight-year-old daughter at a restaurant. The girl says to the waitress, “I want a hot dog, French fries and Coke.” The mother doesn’t acknowledge this declaration.

“My daughter will have the bean salad, plain yogurt and grapefruit juice,” she asserts. The waitress turns to the girl and asks, “D o you want ketchup with it?” The girl beams at the waitress and muses to herself, “She thinks I’m real.”

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In the winter, you’re often going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark, and even during your lunch break there’s not much sun.

Welcome to Vermont. If you’re not a fan o f cold or clouds, it’s easy to become inert and house-bound from November through March.

However, if you are experiencing mild to serious depression, sleep disturbance, loss o f appetite, lack o f interest in life, suicidal tendencies or a marked difference in your personality from summer to win­ ter, you could be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).

M any Vermonters are susceptible to SAD — or “cabin fever” — because o f the persistent grayness o f winter months. According to Bill Warnock, a natur­ opathic physician w ith the Lake Cham plain Center for Holistic Medicine in Shelburne, SAD is linked to the levels o f serotonin in the body, which decrease with lack o f light. To counter this effect and raise the level o f serotonin in the body, W arnock recommends St. Johns wort, an ancient treatm ent that is currently one o f the most popular herbal remedies in Europe. A standardized form o f this herb containing 3 percent hypericin is best, and a normal dose o f 300 milligrams should be taken three times a day, suggests Warnock. T he appropri­ ate m onthly dosage o f this herb costs between $10 and $15 dollars at local health stores.

Another effective treatm ent is the use o f foilspectrum lights. T he m ost powerful type is a light box containing very bright, white fluorescent light bulbs. Approximately one by two feet in size, the light box can be turned on a person while, for instance, sitting at the breakfast table or reading the m orning paper. T h irty or 60 m inutes exposure helps adjust body chemistry, according to Sheryl Felty o f Full Spectrum Innovations in Burlington.

Light boxes are expensive — 3700-10,000 lux lights run approximately $250-350. Felty also sells less expensive options, Vitalites (fiuorescents) and Chrom aiux bulbs, which can also be found at area natural-food and environmental stores. Chromaiux bulbs absorb the yellow/orange spectrum and bring in the violet/pUrpIe spectrum. But while these warm -hued lights im itate sunlight, they do not pro­ vide ultraviolet light as true foil-spectrum lights do.

A persons lifestyle, income and severity o f symp­ toms can determ ine which is the best treatment.

However, someone with SAD ideally would maxi­ mize their exposure to full-spectrum lights5by plac­ ing them in their work environment.

Dr. Robert Pierattini, a psychiatrist at Fletcher Allen Hospital, disagrees with W arnock that SAD is definitively linked to serotonin levels, b u t he does concur with the correlation between SAD and lack o f light. In addition to treating this disorder with foil-spectrum lights, says Pierattini, it can also be countered w ith anti-depressants such as Prozac, or through psychotherapy.

Perhaps the easiest way to counteract the effects o f SAD is to be active outside in the winter. “I think that skiing was, originally, a way to fight against this whole problem ,” W arnock suggests. “T he more a person can get outside, the better.”

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looking tor a place PROF. F AND 2 WELLBEHAVED, amazing golden retrivers seek dog-friendly home to share with M/F. Burlington/New North End preferred. 660-9362.

housemates BURLINGTON: Roommate want­ ed Feb. 1 in quiet, beautiful, eclec­ tic household on So. Winooski. Off street parking, no pets. $275/mo. includes utils. 658-4256 BURLINGTON: Responsible, NS F wanted for 3 bdrm. home in quiet, Howard St. neighborhood.

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SO. BURLINGTON: Need NS prof, to share 3 bdrm. house in suburban setting. Big back yard. $450/ mo. - utilities, cable &C trash included. No pets. 862-6367.

wanted fo buy TOBOGGAN WANTED. Also interested in a sled, wagon or cart, any condition, cheap. 456-1523.

MASSAGE TABLE w/ face craddle (portable or not), preferrably adjustable height. Please call Bonnie, 865-0978

WILLISTON: Single dad seeks neat, prof. F to share nice, 3 bdrm. condo. W/D, references. $375/mo. + utils. Bob, 872-0622.

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PRODUCTION DIRECTOR/ DESIGNER. Immediate opening for creative, energetic, self-motivat­ ed production director/designer in start-up alternative monthly Vermont newspaper. Computer and graphic design skills necessary.

Communication skills a must. Pay based on experience. Send letter and resume to Food & Water, Box 68 D, Walden, VT 05873.

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MAIL-ORDER ADVENTURE travel book company seeks motivat­ ed employee for warehouse posi­ tion; limited customer service also a possibility. 40 hrs./wk.; flexible schedule & generous benefits. Send brief resume to: Adventurous Traveler Bookstore, P.O Box 1468, Williston, VT 05495.

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help wanted NOW HIRING BARTENDER. Must be experienced, customer ori­ ented and able to work well in a fast-paced environment. Apply in person at Vermont Pub & Brewery.

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SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES is searching for a com­ petent, energetic, enthusiastic and responsible young person to join existing Drop-in staff. Worker must be friendly and responsive in inter­ action w/ homeless, runaway and at-risk youth ages 16-21.

Responsibilities include: acting as a peer to youths and managing the Drop-in area at Spectrum One Stop. Applicants can drop off or send in resume to: Spectrum One Stop c/o Drop-in Staff, 177 Pearl St., Burlington. Deadline: 1/22.

WANTED: 2 MULTI-DISCIPLI­ NARY ART TEACHERS for weekly workshops w/ pre-school & elementary school kids. Must have BA, 2 yrs. experience. Send resume/references by 2/3/97 to: ECPD, c/o VSAVT, 1 Main St., Rm. 120, Burlington, VT 05401.

Info call 860-6220. EOE. WANTED: 2 MOVEMENT/ DANCE TEACHERS for weekend workshops w/ children w/ disabili­ ties & their families. Must have BA, 3 yrs. experience. Send resume/ref­ erences by 2/3/97 to: ECDP, c/o VSAVT, 1 Main St., Rm. 120, Burlington, VT 05401. Info call 860-6220. EOE.

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PLANET REPAIR. Earn solid, residual income assisting distribu­ tion of wild, organic products.

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music LOTS OF GOOD STUFF YOU SHOULD BUY: 1950’s reissue box microphone, $40. Seymour Duncan Convertible Tube Amp, $300; Boss Overdrive Distortion, $45; Tech 21 XXL Distortion Pedal, $40; Real Tube, $70. Call 658-5665 or 864-9062.

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances, Appendix C, Traffic Regulations: Sec. 7A. Handicapped spaces desig­ nated.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations, except automobiles displaying special handicapped license plates issued pur­ suant to 18 V.S.A. 1325, or any amendment or renumbering thereof

(2) Tire first two spaces west of Pine Street on the north side of College Street.

(3) through (112) As written.

Sec 12. No parking daytime or weekdays except by trucks loading or unloading.

No vehicle other than a truck actu­ ally engaged in loading or unloading shall, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., except Sunday, and for no more than thirty (30) minutes, use the following parking spaces: (1) through (30) As written.

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Sec. 12-1. No parking except vehi­ cles loading or unloading.

No person shall park a vehicle at the following locations unless engaged in loading or unloading the vehicle: (1) through (44) As written.

(45) On the north side of Main Street in front of 250 Main Street, Sec. 7. No parking areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (1) through (325) As written.

(326) On the [north or] south side of Main Street, between South Winooski Avenue and South Union Street.

(327) through (472) As written.

(473) On the north side of Main Street between South Winooski Avenue and South Union Street up to 250 Main Street.

Sec. 9. Fifteen-minute parking.

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(1) As written.

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(31) [The 50-foot space in front of Burlington Square Building Number One on College Street] Reserved.

(a) As written.

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(112) First space on the south side of Main Street iust west of Battery Street.

Sec. 12-1. No parking except vehi­ cles loading or unloading.

No person shall park a vehicle at the following locations unless engaged in loading or unloading the vehicle: (l)-(43) As written.

(44) A fifty foot space on the west side of Lake Street between Main Street and College Street. The space is to be designated approximately 20-70 feet north of the south side of Main Street. Thirty minute limit.

Sec. 16. Bus Stops.

The following spaces are hereby designated as bus stops.

(1)-(17) As written.

(18) A fifty foot space on the west side of Lake Street between Main Street and College Street. This space is to be designated approximately 70120 feet north of the south side of Main Street.

Adopted the 11th day of December, 1996 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners.

Attest Norm Baldwin (b) No person shall park any vehi­ Traffic Division Head cle, at any time, longer than 15 min­ utes at the following locations: Adopted 12/11/96; Published 1/15/97; Effective 1/29/97 (1) through (12) As written.

(13) [On the north side of Main Street, in the first 3 spaces westerly of South Union Street] Reserved.

(14) through (27) As written.

Adopted this 6th day of November, 1996 by the Board of Public Works Commissioners.

Attest Frederick Matthews Traffic Division Adopted 12/10/96: Published 1/15/97; Effective 1/29/97

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CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances, Appendix C, Traffic Regulations: Sec. 27. No parking except with resi­ dent parking permit.

No person whall park any vehicle except vehicles with a valid resident parking permit or a valid guest pass and clearly identifiable service or delivery vehicles on any street desig­ nated as “residential parking.” (a) through (b) As written.

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The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances, Appendix C, Traffic Regulations:

(a) Fifteen-minute zones. The fol­ lowing streets or portions of streets are hereby designated as fifteen-minute parking meter zones: (l)-(ll) As written. (b) Thirty-minute zones. The fol­ lowing streets or portions of streets are hereby designated as thirty-minute parking meter zones: (l)-(4) As written. (c) One-hour zones. The following streets or portions of streets are hereby designated as one-hour parking meter zones: (1)-(15) As written.

(16) North side of Main Street from Battery Street west to Lake Street,

WATERBURY to W!1 Commuter needs ride Ave. D area to Waterb 3:30p.m. Can wait un willing to pay. (2244) BURLINGTON to BERLIN. Ride wanted. Need to be at desti­ nation 8:30-9a.feand picked up at 3:30p m Willi ng toassist in 'rns costs. Can be dropped ofl at BC/BS offil if more convenient. ( 2201)

Bf3IUTNGn0E>k to SG.BURL ! know it seems a short distance, b||lHjih my work hours of Hp.rn.-7a.ni . I need a ride to work when the bus doesn’t run. call if you can help me out COLCHESTER to BURLING­ TON. Do you have an empty seat in your t-ar that I could fill? I ij^$ooking for a ride M-F to my office on Kimball Ave. My work hours are 9-5. Willing to help with gas money. (2192) BARRE/BERLIN to BURLING­ TON. I’m an eariy bird Need to be to work on Pine St. by 6:30 a.m. and am our at 3 p.m. Can Ifieet you in Berlin P/R if more convenient than Barre. (2200) % WILLISTON VILLAGE AREA Kennedy Dr., So. Burl. Visually impaired Will pay for rides to work.' 8-^:30 wot kday. (1113) WINOOSKI to VERGENNES. Looking to carpool on a daily basis. Its too much for one per­ son alone. My hours are 8am 7pm. but it can be flexible.

(1985) UNDERHILL to BURLING­ TON. Looking to share driving with someone coming from Underhill area to downtown Burl, Work hours are from 8:30-5 M-F. Lets: help each odicr out and carpool! (2177)

the west side of Lake Street from Main (d) Two-hour zones. The following Street north towards College Street. (c) Streets designated for residen­ streets or portions of streets are hereby tial parking from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 Adopted the 11th day of December, designated as two-hour parking meter p.m., Monday through Friday include: 1996 by the Board of Public Works zones: (1) through (10) As written.

Commissioners. (l)-(47) As written.

Attest Norm Baldwin (11) Hungerford Terrace from (48) South side of Main Street Traffic Division Head Bradley Street to College Street, from Battery Street west to Lake (d) through (e) As written.

Adopted 12/11/96; Published S-tregL 1/15/97; Effective 1/29/97 Adopted this 10th day of December, (49) The first 5 metered spaces on 1996 by the Board Public Works Material in [brackets] delete.

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Attest Frederick Matthews Traffic Division

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

Adopted 12/10/96; Published 1/15/97; Effective 1/29/97 Material underlined add.

CITY OF BURLINGTON TRAFFIC REGULATIONS The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances, Appendix C, Traffic Regulations:

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Sec. 7A. Handicapped Spaces Designated.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations, except automobiles displaying special handicapped license plates issued pur­ suant to 18 V.S.A. 1325, or any amendments or renumbering thereof.

The following items are hereby enacted by the Public Works Commission as amendments to the City of Burlington’s Code of Ordinances, Appendix C,‘Traffic Regulations:

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ESTER. I have' a new job off the bus line so I need a ride to Hercules Dr. from downtown. I work 7-3:30, will pay! Please, car offer me a sear in your car?

12164) BURLINGTON to ST. A L B A fE ^fflboking for a | good, dependable eurpool from downtown or along route 7 in Winooski or Colchester to the Industrial Park or dpfruowo St.

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Center. I can take the bus to work, bur it doesn’t run lam enough to get me home. Will (2162) LINCOLN to BURLINGTC Car repairs are awful! I work M-F and need a ride for now until my cat,Tarfeeling better, month I will be able to share M IO D N to ip 'M . I’m an bird. Looking to tide with i one who works simular sbil flexible. (2181) RICHMOND. I am looki. a ride on the weekends tntc Can yotihelp me? (2183)

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BURLINGTON. Live on P: Street and work at Friendly’s corner of Wdliston Rd./Dot St. Looking for a ride at 5:3< ail*, (will be taking the bus home). Willing to help with costs. (2224) Street.

(13) 30 metered spaces on the east side of Lake Street from College Street north towards its terminus.

Sec. 7. No-parking areas.

No person shall park any vehicle at any time in the following locations: (l)-(466) As written.

(467) West side of Lake Street from College Street north to its termi­ nus.

(468) Both sides of College Street from Lake Street west to its terminus.

(469) South side of Main Street for the first 20 feet east of Main Street.

(470) West side of Lake Street for the first 20 feet north of Main Street.

(471) North side of Main Street for the first 30 feet east of Lake Street and it’s terminus. Prohibition starting from the northern most metered space (e) Three-hour zones. The following streets or portions of streets are hereby Adopoted the 11th day of December, designated as three-hour parking 1996 by the Board of Public Works meter zones: Commissioners

Sec. 17. Designation of parking meter zones:

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Sec. 17. Designation of parking meter zones.

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WOMEN SEEKING MEN SWF, 33, HEAVYSET, N S /N D , downto-earth, honest with sense of humor, seeks SWM, 26-35, with same interests; enjoys music, movies, and being yourself.

64216 2 SWBiF, 20’S, IN T O BODY PIERC­ ING & totoos: wild pussy cats looking for someone to make us PRRR. You: adventuresome, open-minded, no strings, 20’s, dominate and/or submissive.

Interested? Give us a buzz... 64204 LET’S M EET IN ‘97. DPWF, m id-40’S, known for creativity, athletics, gardens, laughter, photography, love o f people, ISO NS, fit, funny, intelligent PW M to snowshoe in V T ’s woods, kayak its waters, hike its mts., bike its roads, enjoy its music, food, theater & people. Would love to meet you. 64211 YO UTHFU L O U T E R & INNER. WPF, 50, intelligent, articulate, compas­ sionate, positive, happy, energetic, fun, moral, spirited. You? W PM with similar traits. Searching for “shmoopy!" 64186 SWF, BLOND E HAIR, BLUE EYES, street smart and worldly wise. I play the piano and croon a mean tune. I ski in the winter and garden in June. So let’s get together and talk about the weather.

64209 44, DPNSF IN SEARCH O F 43-50 YO companion. Should be physically/intellectually active, warm, caring individual with a positive outlook on life. Do you love to laugh and be held, too? Maybe you’re the one I’m looking for. 64202 SWF, 30ISH , SM OKER, BL/BL, AM I­ ABLE, pet loving person enjoys intimate, engaging, interactive communication using all of ones senses. ISO educated, i^en-m inded, generous, modest M. 64200 TEACHER, W ATERCOLORIST, SWF, beautiful, caring, 27, interested in light­ hearted dates with intelligent, conscien­ tious, professional men. Only fun, tall, handsome, respectful men need respond.

64195 PE T ITE + POW ERFUL SWPNSF, 35,seeks sensitive, open SW NSM, fit, well-built. Be that one in a million who can keep pace with my dynamic lifestyle.

64187 DWF, 45, ISO LT, INTIM A TE M friend. No marriage. Must be homebody & smoker. Looking for someone 50-60.

64182 T IM E FO R A N E W B EG IN N IN G .

SPF, 30’s, smart, educated, cultured, funny, centered, attractive and fit, seek­ ing intimate relationship that nurtures the mind, heart and soul. 64183 N E W T O T H E AREA. NS SPF, 23, looking to meet new people, down to earth, athletic, fun, light-hearted. You are SM, 25+, NS, athletic, nice smile, easy­ going. 64156 LOVER OF LABS A MUST. SWPF, 31, fit, fun, educated, seeks similar SWPM, 28-38, NS. 64165 “CATW OMAN SEEKING BATMAN.’ DWF, 43, tall, blond, enjoys going out or staying home, likes nightlife or quiet times. Montreal a +. Likes wine/dine.

NS. 64161 MAKE MY DAY! Attractive SWF, 43, 5’3”, petite, likes rock & roll, dancing,

gardening, reading, travel, hiking, the outdoors, animals and adventures. ISO kind, sensitive, honest, open, affectionate S/DW M w/ similar interests for friendship and whatever may follow. 64159 SWF, LATE 60s, ENJOYS G O IN G for rides, eating out, watching TV, has a sense o f humor, likes dancing, ISO companionship or more. 64145 SO M E O F MY FAVORITE TH IN G S: jogging in the rain, new polar fleece, chocolate cake, the smell of cedar, flow­ ers in winter, second looks, animal tracks in snow, old quilts, card games, good mysteries, older people’s eyes, sleeping under the stars, plants, sledding, chil­ dren’s smiles... SWPF, 28, seeks someone to add to this list (SPM, 27-37). 64146

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M ISCHIEF IS MY M O TT O ; REAL­ NESS my claim. Don’t need hocuspocus, want substance with my flame.

Delightful, insightful, a woman you can love. Intelligent, capable, don’t put your­ self above. Are you classy, curious, car­ ing? W ant more than surface glitz? Then call me, ’cause I’m worth it. W ell see if it’s a fit. 64140 SEEKING N E W LIFE AT 30. NSDAF, educated, professional, attractive, cul­ tured. Living in China w/ 4 YO son.

Seeking M , 30-40, for love, marriage.

Race unimportant. Sincere and serious only. 64176 LOOK, T H IS IS T H E STORY: I AM A 26 YO, funky, prof, woman. I like to telemark, drink coffee, cook exotic food, write, travel, listen to inspired music and laugh at life’s little ironies. You are: 2636, SPM, a skier/ “hikey-bikey” sort, evolved, stable, substance-free, funny and difficult to locate. Are you out there? No meshugenahs, please. 64122 LOVELY, PLAYFUL, IN TELLIG EN T SWPF, 28, new to VT, seeks sensitive (!!)

W PM , 30-45, to ski, rollerblade, ride horses, hike, converse, have snowball fights & make romance with. Must be financially secure w/ sense of humor!

Come play w/ me... I dare you! 64121 H O O K E D O N SNOW BOARDING. Educated, beautiful, self-employed SWF, 28, ISO tall, handsome SPM for winter companionship. Brains, passion both pluses. No hippies please. 64126 LIFE IS G O O D ! BUT IT C O U LD BE even better. Blue-eyed SWPNSF, 27, seeks good-looking SWPNSM, 25-32, with a positive attitude, a knack for con­ versation, a penchant for fun, and a ready smile. Likes: creative, cerebral and plain old silly stuff. 64110

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SELF-SUFFICIENT LONER IN A friendly, gregarious way. No leaders, no followers. No chips on shoulder. Love to live, love, learn. Imperfect, but improv­ ing. Let’s write, talk first. Fall into like, friendship, then... who knows? Life is full I of surprises! Tell me your hopes, plans, dreams. Tell me about YOU! 64112 RECHERCHE VOYAGEUR TEMERAIRE, at least 30, interested in world music and dancing, looking withj in, opening up and communicating. I am 38, a world traveler and looking for a I spiritual connection. I live and believe in an alternative lifestyle and openness of mind. Ecris-moi. 64102 | ATTRACTIVE, FIT, FUN, FORTYISH, secure man sought for an equal relationship. Ready for a roll down the bike path or a night at the Flynn? Come with me. DWF, 40, one child. 64105 SMART, FUNNY, CYNICAL, CUTE and slender redhead, 24, seeks grown-up boy, 24-35, who appreciates good wine and cold beer; Baryshnikov and baseball; the New York Times and Dilbert; haute cuisine and a mean za; and who is tired of the games his friends still play. 64084

W ILD DANCER SEEKS BEAUTY T O modulate to rhythms o f night with... deal here is: a night o f social dancing.

All you need is — reply — k!!! 64178 NS, SPM, 27, LO OK ING T O MEET new people, down to earth, athletic, fun, light-hearted. You: SF, 27+, athletic, nice smile, easy-going. 64177 EUROPEAN, 50, N E W T O AREA, DW M , N S/N D , educated professional, enjoys nature, travels, photography, din­ ing out, laughs, music, gourmet cooking, interesting conversations. Seeking NS, similar woman, 35-45, romantic, active, fit, secure, independent and communicative, for LTR. Serious only. 64171 LEAN MALE, 36, ISO SLIM T O ZAFTIG, submissive F to explore sensu­ ous role play, discipline and fantasy fullfillment. Trust, honesty, communication paramount. All limits respected. 64173 I AM A 25 YO M SEARCHING FO R a strong, opinionated, intelligent and beautiful woman inside and out! 64175 M O N TPELIER T O WAITSFIELD: newcomer, 41, almost tall &C slim, some­ what brainy, artsy and outdoorsy, seeks like-minded friend & lover, 25+. 64157 HIPSTER LOOK ING FOR H IPCHICK . Gotta dig jazz and classic cars.

MEN SEEKING WOMEN Must be cool and not smoke cigarettes.

Should like sailing and believe everyday LOVE T H E O U TD O O R S, N O T T H E is a learning experience. 64163 BARS. Part-time dad, 39, happy, posi­ N U TTY FRUITCAKE SEEKS tive, motivated, supportive, fit, deter­ CHEESEBALL for fun in the new year. mined to live an extraordinary life If you’re a SWF, 25-33, who likes to eat, despite being not perfect - only growing. drink and be merry year-round, give this ISO a special friend o f similar qualities SWM, 31, a jingle. Yule be glad you did.

I with an appetite for romance and pas64162 sion. Carpe Diem! 64203 SERIOUS SKIERS ONLY! NS SW PM , IT ’S A W OND ERFUL LIFE! George 30, financially secure w/ all hair and Baily will lasso the moon for the right teeth intact seeks skiing partner. Are you Mary Hatch. Vibrant, tall, handsome fit and attractive w/ a good sense of SWPM, 39, athletic nature boy, educat­ humor? 64158 ed, successful, sensuous and sincere, seek­ IN SEARCH O F YOUNG (18+), beauing same in interesting, beautiful, fit tiful, sexy SF for fun and play. Me: SWPF, 27-35, NS with no kids. Donna SWM, 23, very attractive, great body, Reed charm a plus. Calls O.K, but letter happpy, cool, kind, healthy. Call me! & photo might help an angel earn her 64164 wings. 64207 SW M A CHO MAN LOOK ING FOR INVEST IN FRIENDSHIP. SWM, 35, SWF, 18-25. Have dinner by candlelight, NS, kind, warmhearted, sincere, fit, go to the movies, hug, cuddle, snuggle. musical, shy at times, seeks special 64154 woman, 38-40, NS, to build friendship W M , 34, SEEKS WF. M U ST BE beau­ | w/ intent of relationship. Interests: tiful and submissive for house slave. Age music, dancing, reading, outdoors &C, ,■... not important. 64153 investing time with you. 64213 SENSITIVE & ROM ANTIC SW M, T O U C H D O W N ! RECENTLY relocat­ 33, outgoing, athletic, down to earth, ed Ivy League Californian winner seeks creative, very good appearance, seeking F, | SWPNSF, 22-32, to show off a section of 20-35. 64155 her favorite playground. I don’t make SW PM , NS, IRISH, TIRED O F SIN ­ unsafe passes and this is not a “Hail GLES SCENES! Educated, athletic, Mary.” People always root for this regula­ adventurous, attractive; why single? tion player. I promise it will not be a Seeking stylish, energetic, youthful, I scrimage. Good looking, well built, 28 humorous, attractive, physical, intellectuYO SWPNSM. 64212 al F, 24-30 (isn’t everyone?). 64149 SWM N D /N A , 42, 5’8”, FIT, EDU­ MULDER-LIKE, 33, SEEKS SCULLYCATED, sense of humor. Enjoy out­ like to investigate VT paranormal, and doors, music, hanging out. I do smoke. maybe squeeze in movies and coffee.

Seeking bright woman for companion­ We’ve got a full case load, let’s go. 64148 ship, conversation, romance, relationship.

L IG H T MY FIRE FO R W IN T E R ’S 64215 here! SWM, 34, attractive, fit, into selfSWM, 40’S, NS CANADIAN. Art, sufficient, adventurous lifestyles, nature, music, travel, nature - the good of life music ISO affection, romance, other make my being. Looking for intelligent, things worthwhile. 64144 mature, caring relationship. 64208 W ILD & ADVENTUROUS, YET sen­ TEXAS COWBOY, N EW T O T H E sible and intelligent. Attractive, well edu­ AREA, ISO submissive cowgirl to rope cated, fun-loving, 27 YO SWPM seeks for fantasy fun &C romantic candlelight attractive, open-minded, 20s SWF for dinner. Age not important. I’m 47, friendship and possibly more. 64139 DW PM , NS. 64206 TV W RITER /PR O D U C ER , 38, athlet­ SINCERE, FRIENDLY, PASSIONATE, ic, creative, new in town. Into skiing, attractive SWM, NS, 37 (5’10”). travel, foreign film, confident women.

Interests include fitness, humor, music Seeking a bright, trim, cute, 28-38, NS (rock/classical), movies, theater, cuddling who’s emotional baggage size qualifies as I with someone special. Seeks attractive, fit carry-on.” 64142 SF, NS, 20 s-30’s, for friendship, possible H EDO NIST? SW M, 39 SEEKS LTR. 64185 younger women with alike interests (ski­ ROM ANTIC SWM, 32, O U Ting, travel, sex, music, food). Like indoor DOORSY type seeks SF for adventure, and outdoor fun. 64143 romance and exclusive access to my SPECIAL SJF SO U G H T BY DYNAM­ dementia. Romance and fun guaranteed.

IC, attractive, fit, educated, successful, 64201 compassionate SJPM, 31, 5’8”. I’m a I N O LONGER ALONE. SWPM, 33, lawyer for the good guys, into hiking, I65lbs., fun, romantic, passionate, ISO F biking, jazz/blues. I’d like to meet a for fun and excitement. No longer have SJNSF, 21-33, who is warm, relaxed, fit, to be alone. Let’s be friends. 64194 kind, intelligent, funny, romantic and BiM SEEKS BiF O R COU PLE FOR emotionally secure. 64141 hot times. Discreet, clean, open-minded.

SANE BUT BORED DW M , GENER­ I Any age, race. Will answer all. No OUS, 40, 5 1 0 ”, 170lbs. (very generous), strings. Let’s do it now. 64198 seeks Juliette Lewis-type-young lady for T H IS AD TAKES COURAGE! mutually beneficial relationship. 64138 University graduated, financially inde­ DW PM , 35, BROW N HAIR, BLUE pendent gentleman seeks F with sex eyes, I65lbs., seeks intriguing female | appeal who might view positively my company for fun and frolic. Let’s ski fetish for kissing her boots & shoes! what VT has to offer and come home to Call/write. 64192 friendly fire, sit, chat and follow what SWM, 38, FIT, NS, LOOKING FOR A destiny has in store. 64134 warm hearted lady with a great sense of SWM, LATE 40s, TALL, INTELLEC­ humor. Must enjoy the outdoors, dining TUAL, NSPC who loves life in all its out, movies, traveling, playing cards. forms, art, travel, music and nature.

Let’s talk!! 64189 Seeking tender lonely woman. Photo BOSTO N ENTREPRENEUR SKI app. 64127 BUM M ING IN STOWE! 29 YO, 5’9”, SW M, 32, 6’, 2701bs., LONELY, lookblonde/blue, good looking & fun loving! ing for companionship and possibly ISO romance w/ goodlooking SWF, 20more. Let’s talk. Reply, now, 64123 28, petite and fun loving. I love my life, DEAR SANTA, DW M (33, SMOKER) come and enjoy it with me! 64190 asks one Christmas wish. Please bring me petite woman, 24-40, who desires a

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PERSON < TO > PERSON close, very loving and intimate relationship. 64131__________ ______ DWI MALE, 32, ENJOYS WALKING in the moonlight, walking in the rain, walking, walking, walking. Desperately seeking SWF with vehicle. Late model ______________ preferred. 64129 NEED SO M EO N E T O SPOIL! SWM, 40; heart of a wizard; soul of a poet; mind of a philosopher. Sense o f hum or required. 64108_______________ i s T H IS YOU? SWF, 26-40, ready to be pampered and respected in a long-term relationship. I am a professional N S/N D SWM, 40, 5’5”. World citizen and travel­ er looking for the special woman to share the wonders of life and make a family.

No games. 64101_________ _ _ _ _ _ _ ABNORMAL GUY LO OK ING FOR an abnormal woman. I’m 31, have a few degrees and teach crazy kids. Outside the asylum I hang out, read, workout and enjoy living. I’m looking for a similar woman. Remember: to be better than the norm, you have to deviate from it. 64109 ROM ANCE, PASSION A N D FUN awaits the right, good natured, attractive, intelligent SF, 25-40, with great sense of humor. DW M, young 43, attractive, pro­ fessional, seeks friendly dates and possible LTR. Call or write. 64117________ EVERYTHING BUT T H E GIRL! SWM, 26, ISO SF, 20-36, for soul excur­ sion of romantic diversion. I enjoy SF, the mountains and music o f most vari­ eties. You: sophisticated, intelligent, mature. Don’t miss your chance on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! 64106 YOU: M O DEL, STRIP-D ANCER O R look-a-like, goddess? No grey-heads. For:

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companionship, role playing. Me: educat­ ed, tall, “work-outer,” giver, non-short, dark hair, like some kink & fetish. 64118 TALLISH, SLIM, BRAINY, CRE­ ATIVE, N S/N D SM, 30s, into body­ work, dancing, the outdoors, communi­ cation, growth... seeks lighthearted, gen­ tle spirited, healthy, playful F, 20s-30s for intimacy, fun, maybe more. 64107 SW PM , 37, HANDSOM E, IN-SHAPE, down to earth. I like romance, skiing, travel, movies, cooking, writing an adventure ISO young at heart F for companionship. 64104_________________ W HAT D O YOU LIKE? Outdoors, the cultural life, friends, deep connection with someone? Creative, educated, in­ shape, good-looking SWPM seeks similar SWF (25-35) for everything. 64103 WAR VET, 45, STUCK IN LATE 1960s, needs compassionate, understand­ ing F to bring him into 90s. Single, strong, shy and muscular. Last date: 1972. Help, please. 64099 EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIP sought by handsome NSSWM with integrity, humor, creativity, intelligence and charm loves skiing, music, movies, life! Seeking fit F, 33-43, with brains, beauty, smiles, spontaneity. 64100 HA N D SO M E DADDY OF O N E seeks attractive PF, 23-30, to cherish. Must tolerate/enjoy pool and nights at home.

Perverse sense of humor and competetiveness required. 64096 H IRSUTE LOVER: 50ISH, 5 T 0 ”, 175lbs., attractive, fit, Mozart to soft rock, arts, theatre, jeans to dressing up ISO wonderful, wanton, willing, slim, attractive, sensual woman for life’s adventures. 64091 T H E LOVE YOU GET is equal to the love you give. DW M, 45, l45lbs., 5 8 .

Likes being w/ someone special and doing fun things. How about you? 64090

woman to share quiet and wild times exploring! Enjoy movies, toys, fishing, pic­ nics, beaches, sunsets and moonlit skies.

Looking for someone to fill a big hole in my heart. 64092

SEEKING U N IQUE, EASY-GOING MATCH (SWF) for SWPM, 23, who enjoys the outdoors, simple things in life, and is fit, intelligent, honest and sincere.

64082 _________ __________________ FREE HEAT. DW PM , 37, romantic, caring, enjoys dining, adventure, travel, sports. Works 2nd shift. No games - sick of the bar scene. You: attractive, friends first/LTR. 64089 _________ DW M , 45, 1841bs. I’M A VERY SENSITIVE man who likes camping, fishing, dinning in or out. Looking for someone to share life’s pleasures. 64088__________ SWM, 29, NS, SEEKS SWF, NS, FOR a LTR. I like romantic evenings, art, pho­ tography, cuddling and sharing quality time. All interested F, 18-25, RSVP. 64083

SWM, ALL MAN, MANY INTERESTS. Fun times, rough play or quiet nights. 32, 5’11”, 200 lbs. Very new, need teacher.

64095 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 18, 5T 1”, 190lbs., looking for hot, discrete fun. No strings!

18-25 YOs. 64086

MEN SEEKING MEN BiWM, 28, SEARCHING FOR SENSI­ TIVE feminine man for friendship & possi­ ble relationship. Love of crossdressing and techno a +. 64197 SWGM, 18 YO, SEEKING A LOVER who will knock me off my fruity feet. I love the opera, long walks on the beach, and you with me. 64214 SWM, Bi/CURIOUS, 29, 5 1 0 ”, 139lbs., seeks EQUAL for experimentation and fun!

You and me. Discrete. No strings. 64191 A CATCH waiting to be caught. Attractive PGWM, 49, 5’1 r , 165lbs„ ISO an experi­ enced angler to reel me in. I’m fishing for a GWM, 35-55, NS, HIV-. 64179_________ ATTRACTIVE, SHORT, SLENDER, older GWM seeks relationship with similar, age 40 +, NS, ND. Many cultural interests.

Must appreciate country living. 64172_____ HANDSOME, SWARTHY, BRAINY, and brawny hunk, 5’10”, 165lbs., 31 in age and waist, ISO well-educated GWM w/ similar attributes and stamina to spare for intellectual repartee & physical mischief. 64169 VERY ATTRACTIVE, WELL BUILT, allAmerican guy, in need of some good, hot fun! Discrete, no strings, just fun! 64136 SEEKING MIKE + GUYS LIKE HIM. Approx. 6’, gorgeous, call me “sir”, polite, full of fun. Me: BiWM, 35, 5’10”, I62lbs„ seeking fun, not relationship. 64111______ WM SEEKS 4-6 G/Bi/STR M FOR REG­ ULAR poker games. I’m 40, 5’8”, 150lbs.

Let’s make new friends. Anything could happen! 64125

WOMEN SEEKING WOMEN A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH. SWGF, 31, playful, positive, adventuresome, seeks friendship/relationship with same. Dare to answer? 64205 ______________ SWF LOOKING FOR SPECIAL FRIEND to share feelings and fun with.

Sense of humor, caring, zest for life required. Good personality a must. 64150 DO YOU HAVE FANTASIES, DESIRES & dreams, and have no one to explore and share them with? If you are under 30, fern to soft butch, I might be the one you’re looking for! Let’s get together and start exploring together!!! 64137______________ I AM A WOMAN SEEKING SPECIAL woman. Goal: longtermer. Try it, you might like it. GBF, 62, wants you, 50-65. Others, try. 64124 _________________________ I^SEA RCH OF FEM TO SOFT BUTCH, 20-30, sincere, romantic, wild

OTHER SOLO VOYAGERS: DO YOU ENJOY films, culture, travel, the outdoors, good food and conversation? Caring, refined edu­ cator seeks quality friendships. Age & gender unimportant. Integrity is. 64217 CLOTHES DO NO T MAKE TH E MAN! Adventurous, Rubenesque transvestite is seeking a date for the Drag Ball. Openminded lovers of lipstick, lingerie and lace please apply. 64196____________________ OPEN-MINDED COUPLE SEEKING gentle BiWF for adventures and fun. We are mature (40’s) and responsible. Seeking same. 64199_____________ ____________ Bi CURIOUS DWM, 39, 5’10”, 170lbs., seeks attractive men and women interested in an evening of wine and massage. 18-40 only. 64188____________ ______________ BiWF SEEKING NEW FRIENDSHIPS with adventurous individuals. Let’s play in the snow, share good times, and explore the beauty of life. 64160

C O LCH ESTER V ID EO STORE. I rented a movie. You said, “Thanks. I said, “You’re welcome.” Wish I had said more... Do we have a chance? 64184 R O M A N CIN G T H E VINE, W ED., 12/18. You waved at me through the window, right on cue. Wish I’d said something then. Can we meet? 64180

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SWF, 38, REUBENESQUE, ATTRAC­ TIVE, myriad of interests, seeking NICE GUY, 25-45, to trust, share and explore life’s gifts. Central VT/Burlington area. Let’s write first. Box 096

PLENTY O F EVERYTHING, BUT TIM E. Handsome, driven, entrepreneur ISO truly gorgeous young vixen who deserves to be spoiled. No chains, pre­ tenses, expectations. Just photo. Box 090

PASSION PURIFIES. Beauty bores.

Intelligence intrigues. Drugs depress.

Sensuality stimulates. Music mesmerizes.

Smoking sucks. Caresses cheer. Alcoholics abhorrent. Seniors sexiest. Telephone tedious. Writing wiser. Let’s liason. Box 097 ______________________________ G R O U N D ED , SENSITIVE, SECURE SWPM, 40, 5’6”, handsome, great shape.

Humorous!! Great family man without the family - yet. Into arts, outdoors, wildlife, reading, dance, food, travel. ISO meaningful talks, some moonlight walks... with similar, earthy, smart, attractive, romantic woman, 29 +. Box 093 70 YRS. YOUNG DW M. Clear out your attic. I did. Saved the good times.

Children/grandchildren. No fancy word here. Just to enjoy rest of life. Box 094 ENVIRONMENTALIST, SCIENCE/ academic sort, not an activist, some what athletic, a young 34, decent looking, seeking similar F with a zany sense of humor, who laughs easily - a few interests like nature, camping, hiking, or snowshoeing. Box 091_____________________ SW M, 31, 150lbs. 5’10”, NS, seeking SWF, 25-33, to share romantic evenings by the fireplace, movies, fine dining, good books. Please write me. Box 089

W ANTED: SLEDDING PARTNER. I promise to pull the sled back up the hill for you, and when we re done, I’ll rub your feet while your socks dry by the fire.

Is that sappy or what? ISO F, 25-35. Box 086 CONFIRMED YOUNG SENSUALIST: Lover of finer things in life, generous to a fault, financially secure member of presti­ gious profession seeking very attractive SPF, 22-35, who is possessed of an active intellect, a toned body, and an indomitable sense of adventure to explore all aspects o f life, the bounds of which know no parameters. Be ready to embark upon the intellectual, sensual and roman­ tic experience o f your lifetime. Photo appreciated. Box 085__________________ YOU: YOUNG, EPISCOPALIAN; have read Alibon’s Seed; family tree traces great migration arrival 1629-1641; seeking tall, brown, blue for pith and procreation.

Sensual, happy. Box 084_______________ INTELLECTUAL, CARING SWPM, 31, 5’7”, cute, seeking NS SWF (23-31) who is sincere, easy going, attractive, likes the out­ doors, music and intellectual conversations.

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CENTRAL VT - NSNDPWM, athletic, very handsome, fit, honest, secure, indepen­ dent, fun(ny), diverse, adventurous, roman­ tic, imperfect. You: similar characteristics, attractive (internally/externally), 32-42.

Responses answered. Box 079

GWF, 30’S, SEEKS FRIENDSHIP W ITH intellectually challenging, sensitive, honest, compassionate woman. You are spiritually minded, appreciate humor, the arts, beauty, truth. Enjoyment of outdoor activities as well as cultural pursuits desired. Creative, playful, gentle, loving soul please write. Box 095_________________________________ IN “THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES,” who are you? Food: suste­ nance only or art medium? When was the last time you hugged your shadow side? Are you easily amused? What would make God laugh? Let’s ponder the imponderables together, and more. Box 083_____________ SEEKING A SMART, SENSUAL, CRE­ ATIVE, communicative, analytical, allitera­ tive, passionate, playful, positive, political,

spiritual, visionary, earthy, emotional, adventurous, integrated, kind and kinda funny kind of gal. Box 080

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the names o f those they want and some other toe on their teams. The best ath­ the line — forget the old EE. class indigni­ letes get chosen first, followed weren’t standing w ith our toes ties. And the best way to wipe by the selectors’ friends. Then exactly against the line on the those bad memories out m ight down through the pack until gym floor, so Mr. Chambers be to replace them with new, the only people left are the took us into his office. He improved fitness experiences. dregs o f the class, always the showed us a board with a riail For a fee, private clubs provide same hapless under- or over­ sticking out o f it and said he personal trainers eager to pam ­ sized misfits. “It happened to was going to hit us with it. He per or prod according to taste. me routinely,” Stay-at-home reports my husband types can estab­ I didn't have hair in any o f the right places I remember David, a University lish an exciting o f Vermont profes­ virtual relation­ sor who hated PE. that, a n d th at horrible locker room sm ell. ” ship with Elle at the Harley School Macpherson or in Brighton, New o f school everyone was tested. let us go when David Wilson Claudia SchifFer while working York. “But I got used to it,” he Sit-ups, push-ups and so on,” started crying.” their buns to steel. T he more adds philosophically. “It was he recalls. “The kids who xMy neighbor Marc, an spiritual can nudge souls as somewhat disappointing, but I scored the highest were issued illustrator, attended Brooklyn’s well as bodies into shape with guess I sort o f accepted the fact gold shorts. Those who scored Erasmus Hall. “Gym class was disciplines like H atha Yoga and that I really sucked at gym.” the lowest got blue shorts. run like a prison,” he recalls.

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