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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19FORWARD SPIN
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- WOMEN'S WORK
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- Contributions are pouring in to groups that support female
- candidates. A new Republican organization, WISH List (the
- acronym spells its purpose: Women in the Senate and House), has
- raised $100,000 in six weeks. Next: the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
- List.
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- MR. MOM BLUES
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- Publishers have discovered a new market -- how-to-books
- for men coping with household tasks. Joining volumes on how to
- cook and how to fold and clean clothes is the new First Men's
- Guide to Ironing. What's next? How to Pick Up Your Socks?
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- CAMPAIGN CALENDAR
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- Super Tuesday marks the 116th anniversary of another
- election-year event: on March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell
- made the first telephone call. It's a good day to send a
- message.
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- ON-LINE, OFF-PLANET
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- When he isn't fielding calls to his 800 line, Jerry Brown
- communicates with potential voters on-line, thanks to his new
- CompuServe computer link. Hmm . . . are the Michelangelo and
- Friday the 13th viruses political plots?
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- MODERN ROMANCE
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- When video dating leads to the altar, hip friends give the
- happy pair Fighting to Save Your Marriage, a two-part video
- series that depicts couples battling. Maybe it's better to fight
- than switch. If not, try Judge Wapner.
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- TITLE FATIGUE
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- Hollywood is stuck on sentences as movie titles. Honey, I
- Shrunk the Kids and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead have
- given way to This Is My Life, I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore and
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. Coming soon: We're Back and Death
- Becomes Her. Expect overburdened multiplex marquees to resort
- to alphabet-soup abbreviations.
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