Portland Public Library Portland Public Library Digital Commons Casco Bay Weekly (1990) Casco Bay Weekly 3-8-1990 Casco Bay Weekly : 8 March 1990 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1990 Recommended Citation "Casco Bay Weekly : 8 March 1990" (1990). Casco Bay Weekly (1990). 8. http://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1990/8 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Casco Bay Weekly at Portland Public Library Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Casco Bay Weekly (1990) by an authorized administrator of Portland Public Library Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Greater Portland's news and arts weekly FlEE - , l~I Benjamin Smith a .... lucy .......Iton w.1tz acNIS the d.nce floor during • lesson .t ~ .......room D.. e. CBWfTonee Harbert An invitation to the dance By Brenda Chandler With a little nudge you might be tempted mitzvah to escort a battle-ax aunt onto the to think you'd been beamed back to the floor. We think (oh, agony!) of being ap­ You open the door on a long wood-floored heyday of dance hall mania. And you'd not proached by a rum-sodden uncle at some room. The walls are pink. A stretch of mirrors be too far wrong. But this is now and this is humid wedding and of shuffling our feet to broadens the effect. The slow seductive Congress Street and the people you see glid­ the wheeze of an accordion. We think mostly sounds of ''Moon River" surround you. As ing across the boards are not your grandpar­ of old folk doiI\g their own slow thing under you close the door behind you, the music ents. the chandeliers. swings into "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and The people, in fact, are the surprise. We should ftlink again. the couples swing with it. Mood and move­ For many of us, ballroom dancing conjures ment do a smooth segue from waltz to jazzy up images of what we might call"old fogies." jitterbug. We think of being prodded at a cousin's bar Continued on page 8 There were 899 sexual assaults reported to Maine rape crisis centers during the 1989 statistic year, which runs from July to June. From those alleged assaults, there were 44 arrests, and only 21 convic­ VIEWS page 2 tions. UPDATES page 4 The Maine Coalition on Rape spent most of last COVER/ISSUES page 7 year lobbying for changes in sexual assault laws. As COVER/ARTS page 8 a result, the word rape no longerappearsin the Maine CALENDAR page 10 NEW WORDS, state laws. All unwanted sexual acts are now called SCREEN page 12 gross sexual assaults. STAGE page 14 But those and other legal changes have only trick­ OLD PROBLEMS led into the courtroom, and have yet to rain on the ART page 15 streets. SPORT page 16 ERNIE POOK page 16 By Kelly Nelson Continued on page 7 CLASSIFIEDS page 17 PUZZLE page 19 Seepage 5. 2 Casco &oy Weelcbj CoscoBov March b,1990 -3 VVEEKLY THE CUTTING EDGE Cable NetlllVolrk VIEWS WELCOMES week of 3191!10 773·1999 146 Ocean St., South Portland . Tel. 799-SAVE Living Tapestries: HOLLY Elder Images and Style (1/2 hr.) Uscd & Out-of-Print Books In Ihe Gallery: HOFFMAN Wc buy hooks, too. Dueling Artists (1/2 hr.) KEVIN formerly at the Our Changing Region: COSTNER "Hair Exchange" Tue. to Fri. 11-5, Sat. 12-4 Guest: Jane Amero (R) (112 hr.) Other times by chance ... IN Sebago Magazine: Casco Bay Weekly is an instrument Irish Archetect who bui~ French "Not the whole story" Churches (R) (1 hr.) of community understanding. Health Views: Recently I was one of the subjects of a story you ran,"Classified Living with Your Teenager (R) (1 hr.) Romance" (CBW 2.7.90) and several weeks later the subject of a March 8,1990 Mass Irom Holy Martyrs - Sun. al scathingletterbyCynthiaAlbertofPortland(CBW 3.1.9O)objecting Volume 3, Number 10 9:00 a.m. to my views on the subject of personal ads. I would like to resopond Focus to Cynthia by saying that I did indeed make all those statements Publsher Programs premiere Fri. 7-10pm, attributed to me but over the course of the interview I also said a lot Gary Santaniello and are repeated Sal. - Mon. more things that would have put me in a more favorable light. To 100% Cotton. Button Cuffs 1-4 &7-10pm and Tues., Wed ., &Thurs . gam-noon. brand me as "sexist, shallow, callous, and not too bright" without Stop in for a few minutes, $28.00 Editor Lower Lobby even talking to me is the same type of reasoning process that those or browse for hours. 10 Exchange St•• Portland, ME Cable Channel3? in Portland, So. 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