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With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...
IFOOLED them. I pulled my tacks out of the wall and meticulously filled the holes with little balls of poster gum. The Superintendent didn't catch me. But she caught everyone else...
That is, you will if you're an unfortunate first-year student. The fact is that the enforcement of the poster-gum standard is incredibly capricious. The students in my dorm are paying for every nick and scratch, while one senior who pasted checkered wall-paper all over her bathroom got off scot-free, just like another senior who says he left his coffee pot on during winter break...
Pity the poor postalworker, however hard that may be for the millions who have stood in line for half an hour staring at the wanted flyers, only to have a gum-snapping clerk reject their package because it fails to comply with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...
...moment of productivity, Tympani plays a rhythm on two toms as Rabbit searches for the nature of the being they must create. This cacophony succeeds in transforming Miss Scoons (Alexis Toomer), the gum chewing, sexy secretary of the operation, into a nun. Toomer is understandably more interesting in the role of the mystical and concerned nun than in the hackneyed role of the secretary...