_______________CHASING MONICA BY BARBARA EHRENREICH (01/29/99)
	Thanks to Barbara Ehrenreich for extolling the as-of-yet unacknowledged American truth. We (and the Republicans) actually find Monica Lewinsky outrageously, erotically enticing. Leave it to a woman to scream to the heavens what too many men won't admit: Monica is packed and stacked with what men really want. The fact that her weight and height are so far away from the so-called American ideal of skeletal Kate Moss and skanky Rebecca Romijn makes her lustily lascivious behavior oh so grand. Busty, bottomy women never fell out of favor anywhere but on a few blocks in Manhattan, Paris and Hollywood, but it took a thong, a president with an eye for some hips and a little pole smoking to wake us up from our media-induced Equal coma. Thank God Lewinsky has managed to fail in all her misguided diet attempts, and hopefully the book advance from "Monica's Story" will allow her to resist the inevitable pitch from SlimFast or Weight Watchers. Maybe Lewinsky is a little gossipy, a little nasty, a little pasty, even a little chunky. But she's the real American ideal. The ultimate revenge for Monica will be a sassy cover of Mode, a kiss-off to "the Big Jerk" and a quick gold-digging marriage to Chelsea's Stanford ex-boyfriend. She deserves no less. -- Tim Fogle Louisville, Ky.
_______________BRILLIANT CAREERS: CITIZEN NADER BY KAREN CROFT (01/26/99)
	I am not just a liberal. I am a Liberal. I am a quota-lovin', tax the rich to help the poor, Greenpeace supporting, "keep your narc nose out of my refrigerator, what I do in my bedroom is none of your damned business" LIBERAL! And I hate Ralph Nader. I do not hate him as much as I hate Ken Starr, but I hate Ralph Nader. In the first place, Nader is just a geek. If it were not for John Richard's guidance, Nader would be seen as the weirdo that he is. In his way he is as wacked-out as Dr. Jack Kevorkian. He is just lucky enough to have a manager who is smarter than he is. In the second place, I had a 1963 Corvair. I know those cars. They were great transportation, fun to drive, economical and safe. When the dipstick published "Unsafe at Any Speed," he exaggerated the angles through which the Corvair rear axles could swing. Furthermore, by 1963, GM had adopted double-articulated rear axles, similar to Corvette rear ends later on. Sure, the car had "oversteer." If you like to drive, and drive well, oversteer is desirable. When "Unsafe" came out it was simply fraudulent and hurt those of us who had Corvairs because the resale value went straight to the basement. I only wish I had been able to keep my Corvair, but I was poor then and I am not much better off now. I am not a GM stockholder. As a matter of fact, my only significant investment is my education. If Nader were right about more of the things he says, and if he were not such a creep, I would support him. As it is, I just go take a shower every time I see his picture. I could not imagine shaking his hand. -- John Payne Dearborn, Mich. N E X T+P A G E+| Strap-ons and how "Reaganomics" fell short