The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, August 28, 1996            TAG: 9608280002
SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A12  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                            LENGTH:   17 lines

HEADLESS BIKINI-CLAD-WOMEN PHOTO BOMBED

Whichever team of editors Ok'd the picture of bikini-clad women without their heads showing had its collective head in the sand.

Wake up, Virginian-Pilot. The days of that kind of stupidity are over and you leave your readers wondering who's in charge when you (1) devote that much space to such a vapid article and (2) demean women by making it painfully clear that they are - even today - just bodies. Get a grip.

JANICE KREBS SMITH

Norfolk, Aug. 26, 1996 by CNB