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Page lOiWestern Maryland College!November 6, 1986 _ Chris Rowley Feirstein pokes fun BLOOM COUNTY at dating in eighties ,,.---..,._---,.---_--, .--------'-1-- ___ Bruce Feirstein offers the slept with, and decide they've public a funny and insightful look made a terrible mistake and are ' at 'Dating in the Difficult never going to see the other Eighties' in his new book, Nice person again. Guys Sleep Alone. In thirty-nine "Both their dates are chapters he covers topics as beanbroken. diverse as dating style, great sex "Why is it, then, ther when lies, and even graphs the course of Barbara tells us she'd had a one- a relationship. Targeting a night stand and has no regrets twenty to thirty-year old reader because "It just didn't work out," think b,;;:::5...!~~..1 br2::::,;"",~Lii.I.j L...;;:!;;;_....i:.ri!!.........l 1l1...::!!5;!_-="'::~ and tossing in bits for any we're understanding and generation, Feirstein touches on she's a modem. adventurous things you may have thought woman? ...------....., ,.--------. r--------, ,. ---. were only your personal quirks "And yet when Craig tells and adds humorous exposes of us the exact same story, our yuppies. personal 1Kfs. and sex sympathy immediately goes out history to round out this excellent to the poor girl and we think he's book. a cruel. heartless bastard?" The book is dedicated to "anyone who's ever heard the three The book includes various worst words in the English tips on spotting nice guys, language: 'Let's be friends'" and to ensuring your first date is your "anyone who's ever had the last, and reading between the lines intelligence to respond: That's of what your partner is saying. nice-bur at this point, I don't Other extras included are dating need any more friends." Feirstein styles through the ages, famous includes numerous movie spoofs, first-date lies, and information on i.ocluding Apocalypse Now and extra-marital affairs. These tips The Pajama Game. updated to are illustrated in numerous modem times with the trials and cartoons by Shary Flenniken. tribulations of dating. Feirstein paces the book, As author of Real Men starting with the revelation of the Don't EaJ Qwche, Feirstein has a "Nice Guy" and why this has reputation of going against caused dating peril in the eighties, current trends such as male He shows this through dating caution and sensitivity, and styles, relationships, marriage, attacking double standards of our and falling-out. Feirstein closes time. A perfect example of this the book with a conversation: appears in Chapter 7, "The Great Unsolved Mystery of Our Time": "How can you be so damn hopeful about this stuff? I know "In the same night, in the for a fact you haven't had a decent same city, Craig and Barbara both relationship in years. How do go out on first dates. you even know what a good one "Both of them go to nice is anymore? restaurants. "It's easy. The heart may "Both of them see hit be dead, but the mind movies. remembers." "And afterward they both take their respective dates home You will enjoy this book, and screw their brains out. and it is one you will be able to "The next morning, look back on in the future and see however, Craig and Barbara both that the eighties weren't so much wake up, look at who they've out of the ordinary. Sylvester the rat participates in study and is very healthy Sylvester by Roshini George' has no complaints about the fine Kimberly Morris cuisine: nutritional rat pellets for Sylvester, a descendant of one every meal. His attire consists 0 of the survivors of the Hamelin a meticulously groomed fur coat Town incident, is one of the main which accentuates his mysterious constituents in an independent red eyes. study experiment for the Upon the arm of one of the psychology department No, he experimenters, he is escorted to is not the advisor. nor is he one the scale for his daily weighing. of the students perfonning the Anxious to explore. he often experiment He is one of the rats. attempts to escape the confines 0 He resides in a spacious cage the balance pan. Unfortunately, with his cage-mate Felix, and his Sylvester has no choice but to sit home is furnished with aromatic I cedar chips. continued on page II: