Try using your mouth. From the Chicago Tribune Magazine (November 13): “One of the great disadvantages of growing up on a steady diet of canned fruit, as I did, is that once you become an adult, you may find yourself incapable of looking at–much less eating–cooked fresh fruit in the eye.”
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Progress Chicago style; as recounted in ONE Reports (Fall 1988), published by the Organization of the Northeast: “Until this past August, elderly Asians could be found growing the finest community garden in Uptown on the corners of Marine Drive and Castlewood [4840 north]. Then the bulldozers came and ripped it up to build seven luxury townhomes. To do this, the property owners on Castlewood had to agree to a zoning variance. Tom Tice, president of the block club worked tirelessly to gather signatures. For this effort and for his civic duty the developers gave him a fee of $10,000–or about $500 per signature. When this little transaction was discovered, he immediately became a philanthropist and donated the entire amount to the block club–making Castlewood the best endowed club in Uptown. Way to go Tom!”
Thirty-eight cases of assault and battery against gays and lesbians were reported to the 24-hour Horizons AntiViolence Project hotline from May through September of this year. The second-largest category of antigay hate crimes was “domestic violence” (15), suggesting that family feuds don’t discriminate by sexual preference.
What having a baby is all about, according to Maria Bechily Hodes as quoted in Today’s Chicago Woman (November 1988): “It’s my plan to return to work after three months. I’ll have a Spanish-speaking housekeeper because I want my son to be fluent in Spanish, and I’ll carry a beeper. I have a friend who has one. I was at a meeting with her once, and her beeper went off. I assumed it was from her office, but it . . . was from her home. Her child wasn’t feeling well, and the housekeeper wanted to make sure she was doing the right thing. It was great, and I thought, ‘This is what having a baby in 1988 is all about. You carry a beeper!’”
