Word: postalized
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...seven, the little charmer is already a veteran of several commercials and films (Altered States), and this summer she is a star of the new smash movie E.T. But for Actress Drew Barrymore this line of work is a bloodline. So it was easy helping the U.S. Postal Service last week to introduce a commemorative stamp of her grandfather John Barrymore (1882-1942), great-aunt Ethel (1879-1959) and great-uncle Lionel (1878-1954). Even competing with the Great Profile, the left side Granddad preferred to have depicted, Drew effortlessly upstaged, or rather understaged, her famous forebears. The daughter...
...instructor must deliver a copy of his test to Holyoke Center a week before the exam date. Neatness counts: The copy must be clearly typed, in black, on 8 1/2 X 11" white, non-shiny, opaque paper. To guard against corruptible messengers and careless postal clerks. Faculty regulations require professors to deliver exams in person or by registered mail...
...tack their pet proposals onto major bills as riders. Right-wing advocates of so-called social issues have placed anti-school busing and pro-prayer riders onto a number of Justice Department funding bills. There is even an antiabortion rider attached to this year's appropriations bill for the Postal Service. These irrelevant amendments rarely survive both houses, but legislators waste valuable time in the process of shedding them...
...lighthouse, is too remote. No surface-water, a car hood, sunglasses-is too outré to keep it from reflecting a passerby's face. No character is too quirky to escape shoehorning into the film's delirious narrative. Jules (Frédéric Andrei) is a postal messenger in love with an opera star (Wilhelmenia Fernandez)-a diva so protective of her gift that she refuses to record even her greatest triumphs. Jules will have none of this: he must live with his obsession, so he surreptitiously tapes one of her performances. But it is another recording...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) seem starkly irrational. The Washington, D.C., evacuation plan, for example, calls for people driving cars with odd-numbered license plates to defy human nature by waiting for those with even-numbered plates to leave the city first. As for the bureaucracy, the Postal Service will issue postage-free "emergency change-of-address cards"; the Department of Housing and Urban Development has a procedure for requisitioning houses "whose owners have disappeared;" and the Department of Agriculture has a food-rationing system to distribute, among other things, six eggs and 4 lbs. of cereal to every surviving...