Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coronation cost about $20 million, which was a bit much for a country whose annual gross domestic product (mostly from diamonds, cotton and timber) is only $250 million. Kenya's Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail deplored the new Emperor's "obnoxious excesses." Bokassa was unfazed by such criticism, since he knows full well that others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse...
Undoubtedly stimulated by the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, UFO freaks have been deluging the White House with mail. Most demand that President Carter make good on a campaign promise that if there were any secrets about the UFOs he would flush them out, if elected. Carter reported in 1973, while Governor of Georgia, that several years earlier he had seen a UFO in the form of a "glowing light" in the night sky. Now the White House has asked NASA to look at the saucer data collected through the years by the Air Force and others...
...half years as the Toronto Globe and Mail's man in Peking, Ross H. Munro has been reprimanded by Chinese officials, described to visiting journalists as a troublemaker and pointedly excluded from press trips around the country. That was even before he wrote a candid and widely reprinted series on human rights in China, or rather the absence thereof. Now Munro has received the ultimate rebuke: Chinese officials have informed the Globe and Mail that "for obvious reasons" Munro's visa, due to expire Dec. 23, will not be renewed, and he will have to leave Peking...
...Delmore never stopped trying. Through the chaos of his life, trailing from one rented room to the next, he made desperate resolutions: "To get up at eight o'clock-and to take vitamins, join a gym, buy new clothes, answer mail." Occasionally there was rebirth, as with his poem about the disciples, "Starlight like Intuition Pierced the Twelve"-Schwartz always could write titles. But below the labels the quality was diminishing...
...regular features: "Asshole of the Month" will become "Turkey of the Month," for instance, and "Chester the Molester" will be renamed "Chester the Protector" and reassigned to guarding young girls from evil. Flynt does not say what will become of nude photo spreads or of Flynt's thriving mail-order sex-aids business. Says one bewildered Hustler staff member: "I guess we'll be pushing dildos and crucifixes...