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Maximum Fine. Originality is allowed, but postal regulations warn that posts or supports "may not be designed to represent effigies and caricatures that would tend to disparage or ridicule any person." Boxes must also be rust-free and "neat." Regulations for mail slots and apartment mailboxes are very nearly as detailed. Persistent violation of the rules can bring a halt to home delivery. Mail can, of course, be picked up at the post office, but that involves renting a box at rates that just went up from $21.60 to $25 a year, or using a general-delivery window, which often...
...Nichols's own broad way pair, the Odd Couple. All of these teams run on the same fuel--the big, ponderous straight-man who masterminds the operation always blowing up at the little dumb one, who muffs everything but stumbles on brilliant ideas through his wit. One's neat, one's messy. One's methodical, one's haphazard. It's all there in Oscar and Nicky, who could have synthesized everything that's funny in his paradigm if their relationship had been at all developed...
...NWPC seems pretty will organized for the next few years and most members are optimistic about the neat future. But will the caucus long withstand the problems of its broad-based policy? Will it shatter under the conflicting demands of its diverse members? Some delegates are asking those questions, although most like to keep the whole thing pretty hushed. Most seem to prefer looking towards the future through Audrey Colom's eyes; "I would like to see ten years from now the need for the NWPC to dissolve. I would like to see women entrenched in the political parties...
...distance, and Moseby's delusion is that he's moving a knight in a chess game, check, check, check. But in fact the checkerboard is a great swarm, with no one heading anywhere. Moseby hasn't got a chance of wrestling this free-for-all into the neat conformity he likes: once his blocks are set up, the whole construct just tumbles down again...
...Republican presidential nominee advocated separating New York from the rest of the nation and allowing it to float out to sea. Instead of casting off the nation's greatest city, Mr. Simon now proposes to make a neat profit through its sale, with municipal residents and assets being thrown in, no doubt, to sweeten the sale...