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- LETTERS, Page 4Champion for Older Women
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- Frances Lear is hot stuff (PROFILE, May 15). Thin ladies
- with 112 million bucks usually are. It's refreshing to see a
- new publishing empire devoted to a philosophy boulevardiers
- have espoused for centuries: "Many a good tune has been played
- on an old fiddle."
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- Ron Shuken Canoga Park, Calif.
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- As a charter subscriber to Lear's magazine and a
- 67-year-old avid reader of its pages, I admire Lear's revelation
- of having had a face-lift, but I am amazed that she resorted to
- such outside help instead of believing her publication's concept
- that there is beauty in the faces of women of advancing years.
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- Sylvia Miller Wellesley, Mass.
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- Lear is right that the Playboy image psychologically
- cripples women because sexuality is judged on the basis of age
- and dimensions. However, her hope of someday seeing "porn films
- with 55-year-old women in them" degrades a woman's dignity and
- worth in much the same way.
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- Susan E. Mangels Milton, Mass.
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- You may have come a long way, baby, but you still did it
- with a man's money.
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- Natashka P. McDonald New York City
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