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Monday, January 9, 1989 2B ghf (iTrroiudc Nrus STYLE Forecast Continued from Page 1B Anguished decision to place daughter in facility vindicated DEAR ABBY and '50s; one-man or one-woman shows. Specialty supper club acts. A revival of the Ed Sullivan format on TV. Kitchen cocoon-ing: meat loaf and mashed potatoes eaten in rooms that combine kitchen, dining room, back porch. hair.

It will be the year of the larger woman: ample sizing and ample clothes for ample figures. In fashion: cameos, signature rings, rose diamonds, bar pins. .02.. Square toes and Louis heels on shoes. Sweater sets.

And ice cream sodas for everyone." Eric Smith, creator of E.G. Smith socks: "Crafts are coming back. I'm glad to see us once again placing value on what mans can do rather than on what machines can do. It all goes with a revival of the 1960s, a nostalgia for the days when people were hand-dying and putting patches on their jeans." Kenneth Cole, shoe designer: "Traditionally, lifestyle has reflected current fashion trends. That is reversing, so that fashion "People are socializing more at home, asking friends and their kids over.

I'm creating areas within the living room for children. The trend comes from a generation raised with psychological terms like Bob Mackie, fashion designer: "Instead of designing kitschy clothes and I'm certainly guilty of that we'll be doing classics that could have been worn 20 years ago and will look good 20 years from now. There's more of an ease. There are looser shapes instead of those little sausage dresses. And shoulder pads are all but gone." Charlie Fadin, screenwriter of the summer '89 release "Boris and "In my circle, everybody's getting married.

If they're not getting married they're settling down well, not settling down as much as settling in. I don't think it's the couch potato thing. People will stay home, but they'll be doing a lot of stuff, like entertaining more, because it's a safe haven." trends now reflect our lifestyle. Soon the reversal will be complete. Clothes will be more functional, sensible, practical.

We've seen it happen already with more tailored kinds of shoes for women, more athletic and comfortable types of footwear." Isaac Mizrahi, fashion designer: "Women will look for clothes with integrity. Not rubber, not stretch bodysuits, not midriff-halter things with a thousand buttons. I don't mean women will want boring, basic gray flannel suits. Integrity means anything that doesn't look available. A woman goes into Chanel because she knows it's not available to every woman in the world.

It also comes with all this grand sort of culture attached to it; yet, at the same time, it's very new." Van-Martin Rowe, architectural and interior designer: "I'm noticing an enormous upsurge in maternity clothes. It's as if everybody is pregnant. I'm seeing dining room tables that seat at least 10. It's the sense of the family. such a facility after much deliberation by us, and criticism from relatives.

I thought I would not survive the experience. I found fault with everything and everyone until I realized that after the initial shock of separation, Sherry was better controlled and, believe it or not, happier there than she had been at home. Now, eight years later, I could kick myself for having waited so long because of my own pride and the interference of relatives. Good luck to Judy! Relieved in Texas Dear Relieved: Thanks to you and many others for the helpful input. Interested parents should consult the special education department of their local school district, and for more information, they should write to: The Association for Persons By Abigail Van Buren Universal Pra Dear Abby: In response to "Judy in West Virginia" who cared for Maria, her 10-year-old blind and retarded child at home, Judy is to be commended for having lasted so long.

She needs to recognize that she is not equipped to spend every waking hour caring for her child however well-loved. Her decision concerning whether or not to place Maria in a facility should not depend on what her relatives think. Such critics are ignorant of the toll caring for a multi-handicapped child at home takes on the child and the entire family. Facilities for the mentally retarded are able to give 24-hour supervision and care, help the child socialize at her own pace and level, and train her in some basic skills. However much Judy tries, her closeness to her child as well as the guilt trip imposed by the relatives renders her unable to do these things effectively.

The federal government sponsors a program to enable the mentally retarded person to reach hisher maximum potential. The ICFMR program (Intermediary Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded) is usually supervised and sometimes managed by the state. There is some governmental subsidy, which varies from state to state. Information is usually available from the regional mental health center. If not, Judy should write to the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.

Judy has done all she can. Now it's time for her to give that responsibility to the specialists. At first it may be very hard and leave a terrible void, but for the child's sake, it's better at 10, rather than 20 years later when health or other problems occur. My husband and I placed Sherry, our retarded teen-ager, in with Severe Handicaps (TASH), 7010 Roosevelt Way N.E., Seattle, Wash. 98115.

Please enclose a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for a reply. Write Abby: P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, 90069. THIS WEEK AT Continued from Page 1B TV. Monday's guests include Chevy Chase and the Judds.

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He declined to specify why Seidel's contract was not renewed, but said it was not for any disciplinary nor budgetary reasons. Starting Monday, Judy Booker will do the weather for the noon newscasts. Weekend weather will be handled by Dale Gilbert, who does weathercasts for WFBC radio and who did the 11 p.m. weather reports for WYFF in the 70s, Harris said. Seidel said he is looking for a new position at stations around the country, but he said the job market is very tough this time of year.

He has applied also to The Weather Channel, but said that cable network has no openings at the moment. The Tonight Show after midnight, he said. "Carson's main strength is his monologue (during the show's first half-hour). In many cases, people watch that and then look to see what else is on," Twibell said. WSPA had planned to air The Pat Sajak Show at 12:30 a.m.

following a new talk show hosted by hot young comic Arsenio Hall, but CBS discouraged the station from siring Sajak that late in the evening, leading WSPA to drop Hall's program, Twibell said. WHNS Channel 21, which airs numerous Paramount programs, seized the opportunity and picked up The Arsenio Hall Show for its 10 p.m. time slot. Sajak's show will not depart from the usual talk-show trappings. Dan Miller, who yukked it up with Sajak when the two did newscasts at WSMV-TV in Nashville years ago, will be the obligatory sidekick.

Tom Scott, a veteran session jazz musician and composer, will be the obligatory hip musical director. Mike Seidel, a familiar face to viewers of WYFF's noon and weekend newscasts, is leaving the station after five years. Seidel, who often appeared on television seven days a week as a WYFF staff meteorologist, was told in November his contract would not be renewed. Seidel delivered his last weather forecast on WYFF's noon newscast on Friday. "It was a real shock.

I worked seven days a week for four and a half years," Seidel said Friday afternoon. Seidel said the station management has been "real but added that he remains "stunned" by the decision. "There are no hard feelings, and I don't hold a grudge. That's the way this business is, but it's a weird situation," he said. WYFF news director John Harris, who took over that post in late summer, praised Seidel as a hard 12 S.

Main Street 271-3110 532 Haywood Road 297-5600 Jewelers since 1856 lfZ I 3tRMNtt The Gary Collins talk show Hour Magazine, which ceased production after Friday's show, will be replaced in the WLOS schedule starting Monday by the sitcoms "Gimme a Break" at 9 a.m. and "What's Happening" at 9:30 a.m. Continued from Page 1 Players. Although players comprise less than 1 percent of the overall piano industry, Keefer says Classic has no competition. It is the only company in the world manufacturing players regularly.

The company first began building a line of players under its own name, but production quickly increased when it received orders to manufacture several hundred players for Baldwin. A few years ago, the last companies to make player pianos Aeolian, which Wurlitzer acquired, and Universal went out of business for reasons unrelated to the instrument itself. We'll take it off here! You'll take it off here. ragtime to rock 'n' roll. The two companies currently manufacturing piano rolls "love me," Keefer says.

"They were very supportive when we first started because for a time, they were without player pianos." Time was, however, when player pianos were as common as video games and stereo systems are now. When players burst onto the scene in the late 19th century, years of piano lessons became academic to many a would-be pianist with too little patience or coordination to learn to play. Until the mid-1920s, the question was not whether to buy a player but which player to buy, says Harvey Roehl, whose Vestal Press has published dozens of books on the subject. Just before World War there were more than 40 companies in the player business. Famous composers such as George Gershwin, Edvard Grieg and Claude Debussy were hired to transcribe their music on piano rolls.

In the early days of ragtime, many tunes that never made it to a printed score survived only on piano rolls. The player was so popular it often usurped regular pianos. Roehl claims the decline in sales of regular pianos in the 1930s and '40s was partly because a whole generation of children simply had not learned to play the piano. Take off in 1989 with WEIGHT WATCHERS New Quick Success Program JOIN NOW FOR THE ACES Last year, Weight Watchers members lost weight 20 faster than ever. This year, it's even easier.

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"That's what I did with today's red suits and I got a minus for my efforts." South won his spade nine and counted up to eight winners. A ninth was available if he could develop an extra red-suit winner. Remembering his lessons on combining chances, South cashed the king and ace of hearts, and when the queen did not drop, he took the diamond finesse. East won gratefully and the spade return collected a surprising one down. Had the contract been in jeopardy if either defender had won the lead (or if South could be sure that spades were 4-3), South's play would have been justified.

However, since it was obvious that West had the length and strength in spades, it was imperative that East be kept off lead. At trick one, South should play dummy's spade jack to win the trick (rule of 11) and then lead the heart 10 and pass it. If it loses, West cannot hurt South in spades, and South has his nine tricks. If it wins, South can then count on at least one overtrick. It's always easier to blame the teacher than to accept responsibility for one's own goofs.

press tne piano Key. The greater the number of holes passing over the vacuum bar at the same time, the greater the number of keys played, which is why a player can do what a human cannot. Customers for player pianos often are people in their 40s and 50s who have long nurtured an interest in the instruments, he says. With retail prices ranging from about $6,800 to nearly $9,000, they're not bought on a whim. "Younger people are buying regular pianos and those who are older than their 50s are just remembering and wishing," he says.

"Obviously it's enough of a novelty item, and there's enough of a price difference between this and a regular acoustic piano that it's not a question of, 'Gee, do we buy a regular piano or do we buy a player? It's, 'When can we afford a player? I've always wanted Despite their nostalgic appeal, players are not just for the Perry Como set. Piano rolls, which currently cost about $5 each, have been manufactured continuously since the 1890s in music styles from Sott Joplin to Janis Joplin, LEAD WITH THE ACES 1-8-B South holds: 97 10 4 3 8 5 3 A62 West North East South 1 Pass 1 Pass 1 Pass 3 NT All pass ANSWER: Heart four. Lead fourth best even though East has bid the suit. Partner may have the jack. Send bridge questions to The Aces, P.O.

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