Ex-Lax for the mind. From a new-age diet book quoted in Conscious Choice (Summer): “Holding onto thoughts is mental constipation. It usually is accompanied by intestinal constipation, because an excess of energy is in the brain. This creates a deficiency in the colon, so there is less activity taking place in the colon.”
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“You may ask why the business community fights family leave [legislation] with such intensity,” writes Grace Kaminkowitz in Today’s Chicago Woman (May). “Officially, it claims leaves would impose a terrible burden on businesses, causing small and marginal companies to go broke…Hogwash! We learned during the Gulf War that businesses did survive leaves of absence. Some reservists were away seven months, way longer than any proposed family leave. Businesses coped with absent reservists because the government said they had to cope.”
“As with any other motor vehicle, the limo has revealed more than a few flaws since delivery, from both a design and a maintenance standpoint,” writes Chicago heiress Abra Prentice Wilkin in Town & Country (May). “For example, in order to turn on the AM/FM/cassette player or to reach the ice bin, both located far ahead on either side of the car, one must catapult forward into a spread-eagle kneeling position. This is not ladylike. Furthermore, the VCR picture is fuzzy, the remote zaps wrong and the drink holders have long since snapped off.ÉOnly two of the original dozen Baccarat glasses remain chipless, and the expense of replacing them has forced me to opt for the lower-priced, first-marriage Tiffany Swag pattern.”
“Multi-cultural means ‘THIS and… (other)’ for most cultural institutions,” writes Maria Benfield in Video (July/August), published by the Center for New Television on North Dayton. “As a Latina woman in recovery from assimilation, my emphasis is firmly on the rich complexity and wide variety of ‘other.’ (Of course, easier said than done, for as all of us recovering assimilateds know, we have sucked it up like sponges and are gonna be squeezing it out forever.)”
