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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, January 1, 1993                   TAG: 9301040283
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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ED SHAMY'S DIRTY DOORSTEPS

IT MUST have been a slow news day the day Ed Shamy trekked across the mountains to Covington to view the "mannequin in the front window (barely) wearing a red chemise."

Are there not enough pornographic bookstores and peep shows in Roanoke to keep him amused, or is it that he, like the patrons of Intimate Moment, desires anonymity and slinks into such stores under the guise of being a columnist?

What a shame that he, like the "swine" who "turn to stammering fools at the threshold of a women's lingerie shop," had to go out of his way to see that "erotica has become a hot item." What a shame that he had to show that the people of Covington and the surrounding areas are "starved" for something called sex!

Do the editors of the Roanoke Times & World-News instruct their columnists to deliberately make us look like backwoods sex-crazed mountain folk, or is it something that columnists pick up subconsciously, "something intangible"? In the adage of the old mountain folk: Clean off your own doorsteps before you try to sweep off ours. REBECCA W. SCOTT COVINGTON

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