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mornings or all-nighters
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polka dot hikini*sea monkeys
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slivers*love letters»hair curlers
makeup
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neighbors*musical instrument
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worms •toy for your ferret
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•replacement for wine glass at a
Jewish wedding
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reminder of where to get great pizza
bribe your teacher»hiding place
bjte cup if sexually frustrated
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•use a string & make a
phone to next dorm room
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put on your head as
outline for punk haircut
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beg for money for springbreak
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use to draw lots to see who
cleans the toilet
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wake up roommate
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scope guys or gals
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A Change of Hobbit pays off
Sci-fi fan runs bookstore
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)
— When Sherry Gottlieb started
reading the Oz books as a child,
she was a goner. Her father saw
no harm in it. He had a complete
set of the Frank Baum classics
from his own childhood. One by
one he put one on her bed and
she devoured them.
When the supply ran out, she
went to the public library and
consumed all the fairy tales. All of
them.
Today, next to a gas station on
Lincoln Boulevard in this sea
shore town. Sherry runs what
may be the largest and oldest sci
ence Fiction bookshop in the
world, called A Change of Hob
bit, after Tolkien’s creatures. She
keeps a Colombian boa constric
tor named Wrinklesnakeskin (af
ter Rumplestiltskin) as a pet, dyes
her forelocks purple and gener
ally lives as she pleases.
Here, in her one-floor estab
lishment, she has 75,000 books
and 4,800 square feet of floor
space which she fills when the
likes of an Arthur C. Clarke come
to autograph books. She hosts im
portant science fiction writers
about 15 times a year.
How did she get from ()/ to
here?
Not by the whirlwind that
more often than not lands one in
Kansas. She attended the L'niver-
sitv of California, Berkelev, be
tween the free speech movement
and People’s Park.
When she graduated with a
bachelors degree in Theater Arts-
Plavwriting, the only jobs she
could get were as a secretary or a
waitress. She gave in to the secre
tarial side in a film rental library.
Women’s Liberation was just
blooming and, she said, “after
two years my mind began to rot
from disuse.
"I quit my job and my then
husband said, ‘Well what are you
going to do now?' and there was
some worry in his voice because
he was at the University of South
ern California in film school.
“I said, Tm going to read sci
ence fiction until 1 run out of
money and then I’m going to
worry about it.’ ”
She said she wished there was a
science fiction bookstore in Lm
Angeles like the world's oldev
and largest that she had visitdin
London. That one was called
“Dark They Were And Golden-
eved.” after a line from writer
Rav Bradbury.
She copied all the names of
publishers from her own collec
tion of paperbacks, wrote to them
to order hooks, found a l2-by-15-
foot room ov er a coin laundry in
Westwood Village hard bv
L'CLA. and invested S 1.500 in
savings.
1 he owner wouldn't let hei put
a sign out f ront, so it was all word-
of-mouth. A local seller of gen
eral hooks put a sign on his sci
ence fiction section, directing
hul! s to Sheri \ ‘s. She had no tele
phone for the first five months.
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she'd reorder. She had only one
copy of everything.
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proprietor of the world’s largest
and oldest, she'll never get rich,
may be never ev en Ik* able to bus a
home. But she enjoys.
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River raft trips inspire jazz group
NEW YORK (AP) — Five jazz mu
sicians, instruments in hand, rode
rubber raf ts down the rapids of the
Colorado River through the Grand
Canvon in search of some new
sounds. The cello player got dunked
once, but that was the only sour
note.
That adventure by the Paul Win
ter Consort, a group that often gets
its inspiration f rom whales and other
creatures of the wild, resulted in an
hour-long PBS-TV special, “Canyon
Consort,” which will be shown
Wednesday night, Sept. 3, via KAET
in Phoenix, Ariz.
“Usually we would raft in the
morning, going 20 or 30 miles,” says
Paul Winter, saxophonist, composer
and leader of the group. “We’d find
a grotto or cave and make music all
afternoon.”
Winter and his group have rafted
through the Grand Canyon four
times since 1980, originally to create
some new jazz for a record album ti
tled “Canyon."
"On the second trip, the cellist's
raft flipped,” Winter says. “He came
up fine, finished riding through the
rapids on top of the overturned raft.
We dried the cello out in the sun.
The case wasn’t in very good shape
but the cello survived."
When friends suggested that a
Grand Canyon trip should be
filmed, Winter got interested. “It
would show the challenge of trans
lating into music some vision you
have at the moment,” he said. "We
approach it all through our instru
ments and improv ising.”
So the third rafting trip, in April
1984, was filmed. They've also made
v ideos which will he distributed na
tionally this fall.
Winter, born in Altoona, Pa., has
placed the soprano sax, piano and
clarinet since lie was (i, and has had
hands since he was 12. While study
ing at Northwestern, with tlieintrl
tiou of going to law school, fl
dreamed of placing with Stan kr I
ton.
"Mv jazz sextet won an intercoltl
giate jazz festiv al and received art!
cord contract at Columbia," hesatl
“Later that year the State Deprl
mem sent us to 23 countries in Lrj
America. It totally changedourli^l
I knew there was far more I (outI
conti ibure to the world throui;hn;.|
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In 1975, Winter went onaGrter
peace expedition of f British Coluit
bia and played music to whale*. Du^
inspired "Ocean Dream" in hisiB
bum "Common Ground."
"I wanted to use the melodyoftkl
whale its played on our instnj
ments," lie says. "We could crctiil
whales as co-composers; publishinil
royalties went to sea mammal otpl
ni/ations."
Florida woman never ‘tires' of job
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — On
the job, it’s impossible for Nancy
Lima to look spick-and-span for very
long. Her hands get greasy-dirty,
her clothes become soiled and wot Ic
ing in the searing heat of south Flor
ida summers makes anyone per
spire.
But, if you need a fiat tire re
paired or you’ve purchased some
used tires at a garage on State Road
7, this woman will get you back on
the road.
“I couldn’t sit at home,” Lima, 27,
said as she handily wheeled a jack
under a car that had a slow leak in a
rear tire, “and I could never work in
an office.”
With her hair secured by a rubber
band and a cigarette dangling from
her mouth, she removed the wheel
and carried it to a machine used to
separate the tire from the rim.
away, seemingly intimidated by the
126-pound woman.
Lima said: “1 saw this ad for a tire
changer and answered it as a joke. I
watched someone do the work and
thought it was easy."
Admittedly, there were some sore
muscles the first couple of weeks al
ter she took the job a few months
ago-
“Getting the tires off and on is the
hardest part of the job," she said.
After repairing the leak, she car
ried the 50-pound wheel to a water
tank to check the repair and then re
placed it on the vehicle. The driver
was soon on his wav.
The car’s driver, a husky young
man, stood quietly some distance
At work, Lima does little to em
phasize that she's a woman. Her
work clothes consist of worn jeans
and a T-shirt. Her only jewelry is a
thin gold chain around her neck.
Her walk resembles that of a cow
boy, indicative of her teen-age years
when she worked as a groom at
horse tracks in Illinois. Arkansasai*i
Florida.
Off the job, however, she
perfume and makeup, and sayssl*
enjoys baking.
“1 like to dress up," she said,bj
added it's usually in slacks ant
blouses. “I have only one dress.”
The only feminine amenity shea! I,
lows herself during her six-day won f
week is fingernail polish.
At times, Lima’s work is rathfi
strenuous. Many of the tiresaretoi
trucks. The bigger tires require hti
to work with a sledgehammer ami
crowbar.
"1 can handle them (truck tireslii
they weigh up to 100 pounds. Somt-
times if I need a little male helplrt-
cruit it.”
Lima, who is divorced, lives ini
small apartment nearby and hast
plans to change jobs right now.
‘Physically, it’s the toughest
I’ve ever had,” she said. “Mental!'
it’s the easiest.”
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