Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:23:03 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;INSIDE THE BELTWAY \BY John McCaslin \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES PEOPLE AND BIRDS What do turkeys and family values have in common? One humorous answer comes to mind, but we will spare the White House and head further up Pennsylvania Avenue to Dominique's Restaurant, where on Nov. 24 at 12:30 p.m., Chef Adolfo will host a free turkey-carving clinic for sufferers of Turkus Carvus Phobia (TCP). The chef says more heads of families suffer from this psychological malady at Thanksgiving than any other disease. "I just can't live up to the tradition of my parents and grandparents. Their turkeys were carved so beautifully with enough for everybody. Mine look like termites got to it," one TCP sufferer told the chef. But isn't this stretching the family-values thing a bit far? "We're a big believer in family values," said Herb Ezrin, co-owner of Dominique's, "and if our free clinic can help bring families together and restore tradition, so be it." THE CLINTON AFFAIR It's a given that many Washington businesses capitalize on presidential inaugurations. Hotels and caterers, taxi and limousine services - you name it and there's a buck to be made. The Ramada Renaissance Hotel-Techworld on Ninth Street NW tells us that one of its poor souls (probably the most recent hire) will dress up as Yankee Doodle for inaugural week. Hillary won't be happy to spot the latest T-shirt in town, one put out by Just One Affair, with stores in Washington and Connecticut specializing in gowns and cocktail dresses, a must for the inaugural party scene. The front of the shirt has a sketch of a shapely woman in a little black nothing and pearls. Printed over the negligee: "Have you planned your affair with Bill Clinton? Inaugural Week January 18-23, 1993." The back of the shirt states that "Every woman deserves . . . just one affair" and then gives the telephone number, 202/686-7255. We checked, and this is not the number you'll need to reach Bill Clinton, but it will get you into a sparkling gown that might catch someone's eye. TRIPLE-EDGED SWORD Both Barbara Bush and Hillary Clinton have endorsed the "Enough Is Enough" campaign, which today holds its debut news conference at the National Press Club. The broad-based coalition of both liberal and conservative women activists has one common goal: making America's neighborhoods safer for women and children through elimination of hard-core and child pornography. "We have drawn the proverbial line in the sand, and the women of America dare any . . . pornographer to cross it," says Dee Jepsen, a former Reagan administration appointee and chairman of Enough Is Enough. She said "hard-core porn's $8-to-$10-billion-a-year industry demeans and degrades women, victimizes children and ruins men." DEER, DEER EVERYWHERE Local deer hunters are being told by the Maryland State Rifle & Pistol Association that they can feed the needy this year by donating deer or deer parts to one of 50 designated meat processors for pickup by the Maryland Food Bank. Maryland's deer season has been extended from one week to two weeks beginning Nov. 28 in hopes that more hunters will come out and harvest more deer. "The deer herd locally is incredibly large," Bob McMurray, vice president of the Silver Spring association, said yesterday. "We're hoping to get at least 25 tons of venison for the poor." But Heidi Prescott, the national outreach director for Fund for Animals in Silver Spring, isn't biting. She labeled the deer-donation plan yesterday as "just another excuse to go out and have fun killing." UNCLEAN MIND Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, told us last month that "editorial opinion-making and news coverage functions of [The Post] are kept completely separate in what we irreverently refer to as 'the separation of church and state' in our newsroom." But he added that "journalists are people, too, and cannot be expected to completely cleanse their professional minds of human emotions and opinions." You said it, Len. For those of you who get it but still don't get it and those of you who have come to expect this kind of "reporting" from the OP, here's what staff writer Martha Sherrill dished up for Post readers in yesterday's Style section - not in an editorial or news analysis, mind you, but a feature news story - about Hillary Clinton's pending arrival in Washington. "You can almost hear the cheering from the sidelines. . . . Bill Clinton, after all, is just another president, but his wife has already come to signify much more. There's talk of cosmic consequences, gender solidarity and generational transformations. Is this a Hillary Cult in formation?" Readers were also asked: "What blend of being, what potpourri of talents will Hillary Clinton choose to exercise?" And while you contemplate a response, you can help The Post figure this out: "There's a needy feeling, too, that nobody has yet figured out exactly how to be a wife and a mother and a professional - easily - and that maybe Hillary Clinton will figure it out for everybody. Her gain is our gain, her loss would be our loss." Mr. Downie did not return two phone calls yesterday. His secretary said he was "tied up," and we think we understand. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM