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C-2-Missoulian, Tuosday, July 23, 1991 NATIONAL New Benetton ads too provocative for some magazines v. cr iJ rffi i Br The toys of summer Makers of Super Grip turning velcro into gold WALNUT, Calif. (AP) Down at the beach, a Velcro-wrappcd sphere called the Super Grip Bull is making a big splash this summer. Marketed by four high school buddies from Wisconsin, the Super Grip Ball can be tossed like a baseball and clings to Vclcro-gripping mitts on contact, allowing seemingly stunning catches. Since March, distributor Paliafito America Inc.

has shipped 700,000 sets from this Los Angeles suburb to retailers nationwide, and has orders for a million more, said Greg Waylock, 24, vice president of special marketing. "It's more than just playing catch," Waylock said. "I compare it to a Frisbee. I don't think it's going to be a fad. I think it's going to be here to stay." To make the bright neon novelty a permanent fixture on America's beaches and playgrounds, Paliafito is planning variations and accessories.

They sell for between $15 and $20, and can be adapted to baseball, water polo and other games, Waylock said. Brookstone, the upscale chain of specialty gift shops, is selling several thousand a day at 100 stores across the county, said its marketing vice president, Donald O'Brien. The toy also has been a best seller for Toys Us, Target and other major chains. At Just Beachin', a Manhattan Beach Mary Anne Sommers, publisher of Child, told Benetton's advertising agency that she wouldn't run the newborn child ad because Americans view childbirth as an "extremely private and personal subject" and she felt the ad could offend some of her magazine's readers. She rejected the second ad of the two children even as she commended Benetton on its "trailblaz-ing approach toward promoting ethnic peace and harmony." But she wrote in explaining her decision that the white-black, angel-devil approach in the latest ad "will be perceived by our readers as reinforcing rather than helping to eliminate negative racial stereotypes." Fressola said Oliviero Toscani, who has been taking photos used in Benetton advertisements since 1983, tries to convey social messages and to puncture stereotypes through photos "that stir up a little dust." He said the ads were created for use in more than 90 countries worldwide and that Benetton cannot afford to change them for the United States, which accounts for only about 10 percent of the company's ad spending.

Despite the rejections, he said each of the ads in the new series have been cleared to appear in at least one U.S. magazine in the next few months. NEW YORK (AP) New Benetton advertisements, one showing a nun kissing a priest and another showing a newborn with its placenta and umbilical cord attached, are getting rejected by some U.S. magazines. "We have probably had more rejections this year than we hav? ever had before," Peter Fressola, director of communications for Benetton North America, said Monday.

The Italian sportswear company has long produced provocative ads under the "United Colors of Benetton" theme. Past ads have shown black and white men handuffed together, a black woman nursing a white baby and a display of colored condoms. The latest ads are getting rejected even as U.S. magazine oub-lishers search for a way out or one of the industry's deepest advertising slumps. Benetton expects to spend about $3.5 million placing the ads by year's end, Fressola said.

The ad that shows the nun in her habit kissing a priest wearing clerical garb and collar has been rejected by YM magazine, he said. Cosmopolitan, Essence and Elle magazines have rejected the newborn child ad. YM, Essence and Child have declined to run another new ad that shows an angelic-looking white girl and a black boy with devilish horns. A Attoclited Prm JOE CIPOLLA DISPLAYS one of the summer's hottest toys, the Super Grip Ball, outside his store In Manhattan Beach, Calif. store about a block from the Pacific, Super Grip already is edging out similar paddle-ball products that lack the Velcro.

Owner Joe Cipolla said he has sold more than 70 Super Grip Balls at $19.95 since mid-June. Cipolla postponed ordering the product for several months because he feared that, with the recession, it would be slow to catch on. To his surprise, his first order of two dozen sold out within a week. "I've done fabulously with them," Cipolla said. "I would say we're appealing to those 13 to 25 years old.

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Canadian actress Laura Robinson something of a cross between the Lauren Bacall of the '40s and the Kathleen Turner of the '80s plays the title character, a smart and sexy private investigator. Creator-producer Jeffrey Bloom (whose credits include surrounds her with offbeat settings and people: She works out of a restaurant in Los Angeles' Chinatown, her best friend (Christina Pickles of "St. owns a rare-book store, and her cop pal (Tony Plana) is a Polish expatriate. This week's case involves her late uncle's apparent embezzlement from a gangster (Dan Hedaya) and the crime syndicate's demand for repayment. It's all very low-key, with first-person narration, film-noir-style camera angles and a jazzy score by Gil Melle Preceding "Veronica Clare" are "Confessions of Crime" (7 p.m.) and "The Hidden Room" (7:30 p.m.).

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I T1 1 1 Lm organist and have played for many weddings. After being underpaid, paid with knickknacks from the local gift shop, or not being paid at all because the couple assumed the music "came with the church," I decided to be more direct. Now when a couple ask me to play for their wedding, I tell them up front what the cost will be, and what it covers (my travel time, the wedding rehearsal, providine music orior to the dropped by my husband's office a few weeks ago and saw a ruler on the floor under his coffee table. When I stooped to pick it up, he said, "Don't touch that. It's there for a reason." "What's the reason?" I asked.

"It's measuring my plant to see how much it grows." Nearby was a philodendron plant in a small pot. It was leaning badly and was propped up by a meat thermometer. A piece of string secured it to the let me decide how much I should pay him and you shouldn't (He got the message.) PAID IN FULL IN KNOXVILLE, TENN. DEAR PAID IN FULL: Thanks for clearing up a great many doubts in the minds of many. Some pastors and church organists are somewhat timid about mentioning "fees," so I'm printing your letter.

DEAR ABBY: I am writing to comment about the letter signed "Brokenhearted Mother," who didn't want Grandma, who lives 1,000 miles away, to know that her favorite grandson (age 19) was in jail. My story is similar, only my parents live just around the corner. "Joey," our youngest (age 16) got mixed up with the wrong crowd and had to spend seven months in a detention center. too, made up excuses for his always being "away" when Grandma phoned. is in the shower." or "Joey is in the darkroom I kept this up for four months.

Finally my mother said, "I know where Joey is. He has been writing to us!" Needless to say, I felt like a fool. When Joey came home, I helped him unpack and I found a large collection of letters several from some of our neighbors! This surprised me. Joey said he wrote to almost everybody he knew, hoping they'd write back because getting mail was the only thing he had to look forward to besides getting out. I've been reading your column for years, and this is the first time I've seen this problem mentioned.

"Brokenhearted Mother" is not alone. BROKENHEARTED IN TORONTO "I can't do everything for it." "Actually, it looks stressed out." He joined me at the pot. "You're joking! What has it got to be stressed out about? Too many leaves to feed? Job insecurity? Can't get dates? What?" Men: Everything is so simple to them. They figure all you have to do to get something to grow is to stick it in the soil and ignore it. They don't seem to understand that all growing things need nurturing and a certain amount of expertise.

Gardening is my hobby. I have an entire library of books that tell me how much light a plant needs and when to water and feed it. I am constantly on the alert for signs of disease and change. Can you see a man giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dying Boston fern? Get outta here. Tending my indoor plants is a full-time job pinching, fertilizing, repotting and getting just the right balance of soil and light.

There are a lot of people out there who dink around and don't know what they're doing, but they are setting themselves up for failure. Yesterday, I wandered into his office and he said, "Watch where you step." I looked down to discover I was standing on a length of philodendron leaves that snaked under the coffee table to the door. It exceeded the ruler by two inches. There's no point to this story. I don't know why I told it.

ABIGAIL VANEUREN ERMA BGfitBECK thermometer, which was attached to a doorknob. "It looks potbound," I said. "It's OK." "Have you fertilized it lately?" "I don't know fertilizer." "Have you watered it?" "Whenever I think about it." ceremony, I even ask them to please pay me at the rehearsal because it has been my experience that the best man, or the bride's father, or whoever had my check often forgot to give it to me in the excitement of the wedding day. My "policy" has helped me avoid much confusion and hard feelings. As an aside, I was appalled when my own pastor told my fiance and me prior to our wedding that he had been paid anywhere from $10 to $500, and we should set our own payment.

He and I were close enough friends that I could say, 'My dentist doesn't "If dust settles on the leaves it can't breathe," I said..