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B-6 Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1992 Santa Cruz Sentinel home for entertainment not easy, poll finds cnnbncuinman fnr thp Rlv. The poll findings do not show that reading is losing popularity, or that people are deserting books for the tube. But they indicate a substantial minority of all kinds of Americans consider their homes complete without books, whether cherished or dust-collecting. Book sales have been steadily rising, according to the industry's non-profit research arm, the Book Industry Study Group.

The number of fiction and non-fiction books sold in 1990, 704.5 million, was projected to rise to nearly 734 million books last year. Videocassette recorder sales grew 7.2 percent in 1991, with the 10.8 million units sold the highest number since 1987, said Cynthia 28 percent said they would have to go out to a library or store to find a book to read for pleasure. Similarly, 30 percent of those in households with more than $40,000 in yearly income said they live without books. "My first reaction is, 'What kind of homes are these for Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind," said in a telephone interview from the University of Chicago. "The children wouldn't even know fhat books can play a role in life," he said.

"If people read good novels they obviously have a richer grasp of human personality and the kind of deeper problems it faces." figure Nielsen Media Research gets from the diaries and devices that meter programs watched. Half those polled said they watched less than 12 hours. One in 40 people said they watched no TV. In comparison, 12 in 40 people said they spent no time in the past week reading a book for pleasure. The average time spent reading books for pleasure was six hours over seven days.

Half said they had read less than three hours. A third of those polled said they did not have a collection of books in their home that they could turn to if they wanted to read or reread a book for pleasure. Even among those with a college degree or postgraduate education, Around town Staying By HOWARD GOLDBERG The Associated Press YOU'RE AT HOME in the 1990s. Your living room is a media center. Cable gives i you a banquet of entertainment choices.

Your VCR lets you see i what you want, when you want it. That's the vision. What's the reali-; ty? Only two in five Americans in an Associated Press poll said that finding something they like to 1 watch at home is getting easier be-J cause of the increased choices pro-i vided by cable TV and videocas-1 sette rentals. One in five said it's getting hard-i er to find something they like on I Friendship I seems lost, off track DEAR ANN LANDERS: I am 41 and "Judy" is 45. We have been good friends for several years.

About six months ago, Judy called to say her mother was sick pneumonia. I had never met her mother. I only knew that she had been in a nursing home for 10 -years with Alzheimer's. Judy never visited her mother, even though she lived in the same She said that her mother didn't recognize her and it was too depressing to stare into those va-I cant eyes and get absolutely no re-I sponse. The nursing home put her mother in the hospital when she came down with pneumonia and I Judy went to see her once.

When I asked her if she at least called the hospital to see how her mother was getting along, Judy said it had never occurred to her. Even after I mentioned it, she never called to check. months ago, Judy called me, crying and sobbing as if she had lost her best friend. She told me that her mother had died and that the funeral was to be held the following day at 1 p.m. In order to attend, I would have had to take time off from work.

I made a conscious decision not to go for two reasons: First, I had never met Ju-! dy's mother, and second, I felt that if Judy wouldn't take the time to visit her mother, why should she expect me to? i I sent a large donation to the I Alzheimer's Association in memo-; ry of Judy's mother. A month lat-; er, I asked Judy if she had received ian acknowledgment from the Alzheimer's Association about my donation. She said she had, but it 1 would have meant more if I had gone to the funeral. She never did thank me. i Our friendship has not been the ame since.

I feel that she must be la very selfish and cold person to ihave ignored her mother all those She thinks I'm not a good friend because I didn't go to the Ifuneral. Please tell me who is Senior counseling training set The Senior Outreach Program of Family Services is inviting mid-life and older people to participate in a 36-hour volunteer counseling program beginning Thursday. Counselors deal with issues such as physical disability, loss and grief, loss of independence, and other problems related to aging. No experience or level of education is necessary. For more 462-0161.

Study of bones will be topic Archaeology student David Called will speak on osteology, the study of bones and the science of interpreting the past through skeletal remains at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Santa Cruz City Museum, 1305 East Cliff Drive, Santa Cruz. The free talk is sponsored by the Santa Cruz Archaeological Society. For more information, call 475-6440. Soquel High group hosts calamari feed The Soquel High Music Foundation hosts its annual calamari and pasta feed at 6:30 p.m.

Friday at the Soquel High School Auditorium. Soquel High music students will provide entertainment at the event. Funds will be used for music scholarships, band uniforms, and music competition travel expenses. Tickets are $10. For more information, call 462-4910.

Women's center will show films Two women's films, "Rosie the Riveter" and "La Chicana" will be shown at Cabrillo College at 7 p.m. on Friday at building 450 at Cabrillo College, 6500 Soquel Drive in Aptos. Funds from the event, sponsored by the Cabrillo College Women's Center, will be used to send students to the Latina Leadership Conference in Sacramento. Tickets are $3. For more information, call 479-6249 or 688-2075, ext.

249. BOCOTS CELLAR television or videotape. Most of the rest, 33 percent, said the situation is not changing much at all. "While the choices in terms of channels have vastly increased, the nature of what's on hasn't. It's still movies, news, soap operas, sitcoms, the run of the mill stuff," said Bob Gerson, editor of the consumer electronics magazine Twice.

The poll was taken Jan. 22-26 by ICR Survey Research Group of Media, which interviewed 1,001 adults by phone. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The average time respondents said they spent watching television or videos in the past seven days was 17 hours roughly half the Ann Landers right. Our friendship now seems lost and I don't know how to get it back on track.

Sue in Conn. Dear Sue: Funerals serve a dual purpose to show respect for the deceased and to give emotional support to the living. Even though you didn't know Judy's mother, you could have gone to the funeral to comfort your friend. The fact that she did not visit her mother in the nursing home should have been no concern of yours. It is often extremely difficult to visit family members when there is no recognition, but many people do it out of respect for what used to be.

In Judy's case, she may have had a very poor relationship with her mother. Obviously you miss Judy a great deal. I suggest that you give her a call and apologize. If the friendship was a solid one she will be happy to hear from you and things will get back on track. I wish you luck.

Dear Ann Landers: I was dismayed to read in your column that the book "The Best and Worst of Everything" mistakenly claims that Bates College is the second most expensive college in the country. Wrong. Currently our comprehensive fee (tuition plus room and board) is $21,400. This places Bates at No. 39.

Correction, please. Stuart C. Greene, news director, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine Dear Bates: The rotten egg award goes to Les Krantz, whose book contained this misinformation. For shame. Creators Syndicate Inc.

demonstration and research projects that "address the problems of teen-age sexual behavior and pregnancy." Its report notes that information from 1983 data show that "younger adolescents are more likely to terminate a pregnancy by abortion than are older adolescents (56 percent for girls under 15 years of age and 41 percent for those ages 15 to 19)." Abortions also are chosen more often by white adolescents (58 percent of those younger than age 15 and 41 percent of those ages 15 to 19), than by adolescents of other races (54 percent and 38 percent, respectively). FMIVEWIRWK NEA, Inc. 18 1 1 LUNCH THE 2ND FOR 12 PRICE, Local artist leads storyacting program Local artist Sunny Fish brings stories and costumes to the Aptos Library at 10:30 a.m. Saturday for storyacting. Children will put on costumes, and participate in enacting stories.

The free program will be held at 7695 Soquel Drive in Aptos. For more information, call 688-5688. Church sponsors Greek night The Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church will host "Greek Tav-erna," a Greek night on the town featuring Greek food and music on Saturday at the Mid-County Senior Center, 829 Bay Capitola. The social hour and hors d'oeu-vres are at 6 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for children, children under 5 are free.

For more information, call 429-6500 or 353-3200. Bosch Baha'i School retreat planned The Bosch Baha'i School invites local residents to attend an international studyretreat program for seniors Feb. 23-28 at the Bosch Baha'i School Conference Center. The program will feature local Ph.D. candidate Brian Miller, who will speak on the Islamic Middle East.

For registration and information, contact Elderhostle, Bosch Baha'i School, 500 Comstock Lane, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or call 423-3387. Recorder players perform monthly Recorder players can join the Monterey Bay Recorder Society at its regular monthly meeting on Feb. 28 for three hours of recorder playing. Guest conductor Ken Johnson will lead players through Renaissance works. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

at the Santa Cruz BusinessProfessional Club, 240 Plymouth St. For more information, call 475-1553, 375-1801 or 356-1551. wrtufi witjh tronic Industries Association, a manufacturers' trade group. VCR sales were expected to drop slightly this year. There are fewer first-time buyers because 77 percent of the nation's 94.6 million households already have VCRs, Upson said.

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DETTLE ALLIED MEMBER. ASID YEAR OF THE COCOON Let's face it, times are hard. There is less money coming in and the same amount going out, so we're all cutting back in one way or another. Entertainment is one of the first items to be stricken from the budget- so we're staying home more often. The trade magazines say this is the primary reason for the trend in interior design toward comfortable, cozy (safe) interiors.

The times themselves, uncertain as they may be, are making people seek out nostalgia in decorating. You know, the security of Ward Cleavers den and the hominess of Donna Reed's living room. Obviously, interpreting this requires a professional, otherwise "the look" turns out as boring, bland and dated as some of those old reruns. Many people are surprised at how economical it can be to hire a designer. We at Noble Thomas charge a one time consultation fee.

There are usually no additional fees for design work as long as the client purchases (at suggested retail prices) through our firm. What you get is someone who listens to you, does the legwork for you, places the orders, receives and inspects the merchandise and coordinates the installation. Not to mention choosing color schemes, fabrics, paints, furniture, and sometimes even coordinating (and refereeing) meetings between busy husbands and wives to view the presentations. So as you're sitting at the kitchen table poring over the budget at the end of this month, don't rule out hiring one of us to help make your stay home more pleasant. Let's start with a nice desk and some decent light to pay the bills by.

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