“People am no longer ashamed of their trash,” crows Carl Youngberg, director of “epicure programs” at Neiman-Marcus. This year the store’s new plastic garbage bags are a light green (which N-M shoppers pay to be able to call “paradise jade”). If the 13-gallon size isn’t enough for you, send your servants out for the 33-gallon bag, which N-M says will suffice “for those massive cleanups, both inside and on the estate.”
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The other 50 percent are generic people. The composition of our board, volunteers and staff closely approximates the ethnic mix of the city,” reports United Way of Chicago president Virgil H. Carr in the Bottom Line (Spring 1988). “The current status of the board of directors is 70 percent male, 30 percent female, and 50 percent ethnic.”
The Chicago Public Library has a new twin–the Sydney (Australia) Public Library, under secretary of state Jim Edgar’s “twin library” program. Sooo–if the book I want has been stolen from Chicago Public, does this mean I can get it from Sydney?
“I’m very upfront about the gay element of our studio,” graphic designer Morris McKnight tells the newsletter of Chicago House (Spring 1988). “I give first preference to gay people when hiring but I don’t make it a requirement. Straight people who work for me must be comfortable working around gay people and working on gay-related projects.”
