Word: foxman
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...perhaps with a naughty hint of "life in the fast lane." The New York Review of Books often features a mock high-cultural tone ("Man who is a serious novel would like to hear from a woman who is a poem"). Sincere is the lowest-ranking adjective, says Sherri Foxman, author of a new book on the subject, Classified Love. "If you write 'Sincerewoman seeking sincere man,' you're going to get 25 boring letters." Since standards of accuracy are not always rigorous, the words slim and attractive are not taken literally. Susan Block, a Los Angeles...
...cottage industry is springing up around the ads. Author Foxman runs a classified love telephone line in Cleveland. Entrepreneur Vinci started a similar service in Philadelphia. Author Lynn Davis offers a three-hour workshop in New York City called "Personal Ads, Why Not?" Vi Rogers, editor of National Singles Register, a tabloid published in Southern California with many pages of personals, says the search for love, and not just sex, is producing the boom. "I never realized how many men wanted to get married in Southern California," she says. "Men and women today want the same thing: romance, love...