Word: letterization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of friends gradually became scattered to all corners of the world by the immigration wave, induced by the fear and uncertainty of the impending change of sovereignty from Great Britain to China. Among the addresses I had scribbled on postcards and envelopes in those bygone letter-writing days were a half-dozen cities in England and Canada, plus Singapore and New Zealand, among others. Perhaps the one thing that kept us lazy kids writing to one another was the chance to add so many exotic stamps to our growing collections. Besides occasional short notes, we did not share...
...what ailing octogenarian writer doesn't long for the company of an unemployed 20-year-old houseguest with no visible means of support and no reason to leave?--but just as a courtesy, I decided to send him notice of my arrival. Already I had in hand a friendly letter from White, written a year or two before in answer to a fan letter I'd sent him. So I mailed him a note letting him know that I would soon be taking our friendship, as we say in the '90s, to another level...
...addition, a "content label" may appear as an extra letter tacked onto the icon: V (for violence), S (sexual situations), L (crude language) and D (suggestive dialogue). FV stands not for family viewing, as I assumed, but for "fantasy violence." Used with these ratings, the V chip could be helpful to parents who aren't always home when their kids watch TV and don't want them viewing South Park or the Playboy channel. However, not all networks and cable outlets use the ratings. (NBC, for instance, has declined to use the content label.) And programs are rated by their...
...things a different way, trumpeting "Hillary?s Chutzpah" on an issue near and dear to New York?s large Jewish population: the capital of Israel. Last year, Mrs. Clinton had made a splash on a Mideast trip by calling a Palestinian state "inevitable." Last Friday she penned a letter to a leading Jewish group unequivocally declaring Jerusalem ? which both Israelis and Palestinians claim as their capital ? the "eternal and indivisible capital of Israel." Hillary?s first flip-flop? "More like an obligatory pander," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "The two things aren?t mutually exclusive ?- this just means...
...Killeen, Christians howl in protest. "We believe they are satanic and that they do not deserve to have any place at Fort Hood," says the Rev. Jack Harvey of the local Tabernacle Baptist Church, which sponsored a letter-writing campaign against the Wiccans. "Eighty percent of my congregation is military, and they are appalled...