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… MOVIES So Memorable, So Disgusting John Waters has a refined taste for the tasteless and his longtime star Divine Movie director John Waters are enduring a photo session at an offbeat New York toy store called Little Rickie. Around them teems a crush of kitsch rang- ing from bulgy toy cars to Mexican "day of the dead" skeleton figures to Elvis gift- wrapping paper. The photographers snap away and try to get the duo to exude. Yet, in the mids...…

… John Waters." On the page he intends more to amuse than to shock, and he provides an ex- hilarating introduction to the underbelly of our culture. In an essay on Los Angeles, for exam- ple, Waters takes the reader to the Spahn ranch, home of the Manson family, and to the mu- seum of filmmaker Russ ("Fast- er Pussycat! Kill! Kill!") Meyer. 'Extreme items': Not surpris- ingly, Waters has attracted an unusual breed of fan. "They're just so happ...…

… .... PM . .r 0 Avoid The 9 To 5 Routine. It's time to graduate, and time to get a job. A career. And you're probably still not sure what to do with your degree. The only thing you are sure of is that you don't want a boring 9 to 5 desk job, a job that becomes routine and predictable, year after year. You want a job that's excit- ing, an adventure. Here's your chance. The Federal Aviation Administration is now hiring Air Traffic Control Spe...…

…An enchanting production of a seasonal favorite: Christmas Eve festivities inAct One (left), the 'Coffee' dance DANCE Joifrey Finds a Home in Iowa The university cosponsors a new 'Nutcracker' The bicoastal Joffrey Ballet considers New York and Los Angeles its homes, but when the company unveiled its enchanting production of the seasonal dance favorite "The Nutcracker" in De- cember, the premiere took place at the Uni- versity of Iowa in Iowa...…

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… BOOKS Advocate for the Homeless Jonathan Kozol offers uncommon wisdom t would be unthinkable today, but not 25 years ago. In the spring of 1963 Jona- than Kozol, a 26-year-old Harvard graduate, walked out on his Rhodes schol- arship, rented a small room in Paris and set out to write a novel. After four years he returned to Boston with a rare insight into his Ivy League experience. "It had taken me all that time to realize that while I knew s...…

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…ART & ENETI MN Epiphanies and Sad Surprises Canin gives us grace B ecause Ethan Canin writes very well, the stories in "Emperor of the Air" (179 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $15.95) are full of surprises. A situation is introduced, a character is revealed, and we think we know what this particular fictional world holds. Then something un- expected happens: an old man suddenly understands what he's missed by not hav- ing children, a young man visu...…

…: 0 The Transfer Conundrum The realization that I could change a negative situation gave fme a sense of self-control BY JEAN DYKSTRA it can be even harder to admit that you have made Nhoosing a college is hard, as everyone knows. But the wrong choice and decide to start all over again. As a transfer student, I know just how difficult it was to concede defeat, in one sense, and cut short what I thought would be an exciting four-year experie...…

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