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TV
Guide 12/21/91 (Vol 39 No. 51 Issue #2021)
Like everything
else in TV's most eccentric town, gift-giving is a challenge to
the citizenry's resourcefulness.
The show's writers offer these holiday tips.
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Film buff Ed
will buy videos: for former astronaut Maurice, "The
Right Stuff," for love kitten Shelly, "Lolita";
for New Yorker Joel, "Manhattan,"
who also gets Statue of Liberty coasters. |
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Maurice,
the wheeler-dealer, gets the same thing for everyone: NASA key rings,
and a copy of the coffee-table book "Historic Bridges of
England and the Wales," both items ordered in bulk at
discount. |
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the need for fiber up here on the tundra, Marilyn
gives a dried-fruit selection to Maurice. For girlfriends, Shelly,
Maggie and Ruth-Anne, handmade, dyed-ostrich-feather earrings from
her ostrich farm. |
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Ruth-Anne
congratulated Maurice on his brood, but clearly doesn't approve of
the illegitimate family he spawned during his assignment in Korea.
Her gift: a Planned Parenthood donation. |
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his steadfast and stone-faced receptionist, Marilyn, Joel
buys a daily appointment book; for the rest of his Cicelian clientele,
free flu shots to get them through the long, cold winter nights ahead. |
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Airplane
jockey and engine afficionado Maggie
wants to reward klutzy Dr. Joel (her boyfriend wannabe) for saving
their lives by fixing her stalled prop with a set of crescent wrenches
of his own. |
| Shelly,
who once had a beautician friend make-over Ruth-Anne, would like to
send Maggie to Juneau for a similar overhaul. For her lover Holling,
a Shower Massage. For all else, home-made potholders. |
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After
taking baby-doll girlfriend Shelly up on her Shower
Massager offer, saloon-owner Holling
will feel generous enough to offer Ed 50 free plays on his favorite
pinball machine. |
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Chris,
the hinterland's hippest gift-giver, has the town's most eclectic
list. For mystical Ed, "The
Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell; for rock-hungry Shelly,
the latest Metallica
LP. |
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More
holiday cheer from Cicely ...
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