The miscellaneous studies section of the proceedings includes the following 14 papers: "The News Shapers" (Lawrence C. Soley); "Journalism and Mass Communication Journal Reviewers: Their Standards and Perceived Roles in the Research Process" (Stanley T. Wearden and Fred F. Endres); "Celebrity Advertising: Perception, Persuasion and Processing" (Abhilasha Mehta and Clive M. Davis); "The Invisible Woman: Two Decades of Magazine Images of Nurses" (Ann E. Preston); "News Coverage of the Abortion Issue: Framing Changes in the 1980's" (Jennifer Swenson); "A Census and Analysis of Journals Publishing Research About Magazines, 1977-1987" (Marcia R. Prior-Miller and Kellie L. Esch); "Does the Representation of Contemporary Social Issues in Childrens' Magazines Reflect Reality?" (Edna Pierce Whiteley); "Independent Film Fortunes in the 1980s: The Spring of Hope, The Winter of Despair'" (Mary M. Cronin and Barry R. Litman); "Political Cartoons: A Semiotic Analysis" (John Anderson); "Need for Cognition and Self-Report of Persuasive Message Attributes" (M. Mark Miller and others); "The Abortion Clause' of U.S. Foreign Population Policy: A Feminist Cultural Analysis of the Debate" (Rashmi Luthra); "The Impact of Risk Message Content and Construction on Comments about Risk Embedded in Letters to Friends'" (Sharon Dunwoody and others); "The Construction of Interpretive Communities and Uses and Gratifications in Letters to the Editor" (Bruce W. McKinzie); and "Some Determinants of Accurate Perception of Public Opinion" (Ann Marie Major and L. Erwin Atwood). (MG)