Phone Personals: Kid's Reaching Out Touches Dad's Cash
For some reason, the telephone bill always seems to be higher than you'd expect. You open the monthly missive thinking you'll be hit for $30 or $35, but somehow the total has reached $65, even though it doesn't feel as if you've done $65 worth of phone talking.Dennis Nolan of Evergreen Park knows that feeling - and then some. When he opened his most recent phone bill, he was so stunned by the bottom line he had to reach for his bifocals to...
Phone Personals: Double Lives On The Down Low
In its upper stories, the Flex bathhouse in Cleveland feels like a squash club for backslapping businessmen. There's a large gym with free weights and exercise machines on the third floor. In the common area, on the main floor, men in towels lounge on couches and watch CNN on big-screen TV's.In the basement, the mood is different: the TV's are tuned to porn, and the dimly lighted hallways buzz with sexual energy. A naked black man reclines on a sling in...
Phone Personals: DATING SERVICES PLAY HEART GAME < LONELY PAY FEE WITH HOPE OF FINDING MATCH
``Sometimes love needs a little shove.'' That's their motto at the Cupid Inc. video dating service, one of several local services available these days to shove singles in a variety of ways -- for a variety of fees. The number of businesses listed under the ``Dating Service'' heading in the Yellow Pages has jumped from six to nine in the past year.And if the '90s are anything like the '80s, the singles...
Phone Personals: THE GIST LIST
What's In and Out for '93
Change is good. 1993 will be more "diverse" than 1992. It's cooler to be phat than fierce. Madonna is over. We think. It's a new year, New York, and I have two words for you: Read this.HELLO THERE Clinton. Al Gore. Stocking Caps. Band-Aids. Denis Leary. Hawaii. Pool Parties. Patti Lupone. Phone Personals. Barbra Streisand. Work Boots. Lainie Kazan. '70s Original Cast Recordings. Homeopathic Medicine. White Beans. '80s...
Phone Personals: FIND SCOOP!
Scoop was hiding in the Phone Personals ad on Page 6C of last Wednesday's paper and 96 of you found him there. He is hiding again today. When you find him, cut out his picture and send it with the "I Found Scoop" coupon on this page. Please fill out the coupons completely. Deadline is noon Monday.Five lucky Scoop fans won caps and they are: Amber Kraft, 4, Bismarck; Betsy Weekes, 9, Bismarck; Stacie Ueckert, 9, Bismarck; Andrew Anderson, 5, Goodrich; and...