Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hitler posters, swastika-emblazoned daggers and flags. Old military uniforms and insignia-including Nazi versions-have been snapped up by various nostalgia collectors who may have no particular ideological axes to grind. Motorcycle gangs, too, have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid readers...
Provided that, of course, one has survived the Christmas journey into that country without having to exit through the underworld of dunning creditors, debt-consolidation loans and bankruptcy court. Over the past month or so, the morning mail has been reviving unmerry Yuletide recollections in millions of households, as the bills have cascaded in. From department stores for the toys, furs, watches, gowns, cameras, TV games bought with the "holiday money" that the stores sent out in November (how far away that "first payment not due till February" seemed then). From credit-card companies for the drinks so expansively signed...
...poor Mrs. Fell's husband. Appearances on television and radio talk shows, interviews with journalists, a deluge of fan mail since the recent article about his work in Reader's Digest--all were taking their toll. To make matters worse, the first edition of his book had already sold out. Now there was no way to satisfy the growing demand for copies until the second printing...
...been taking hashish, I could not have dreamed of this." In the fashionable Los Angeles community of Cheviot Hills, every mail brings bulging sacks of letters to Alex Haley?all of it evidence of the astonishing impact produced by his saga of a black family's tortuous trail to freedom. Haley thinks he knows why Roots touched all America. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, he explained his own theory of the Roots phenomenon and told how he came to write the book...
Journalists who write of Bobby's clients have received by mail address books and other gifts by Gucci. He spends seven hours on the phone each day; when one reporter hung up in a huff, she too received a personal Zarem note-along with a marijuana joint...