Word: postcard
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...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...
...only half kidding. "The idea that the postcard-writing public should pay as well as write cards is not an easy one for preservationists to swallow," Graff concedes. But "if there was more of a willingness to pay for maintaining the environment, we wouldn't have to rely on bureaucratic whim." It is evident that Willey and Graff believe in their neo-capitalist approach. The bottom line then naturally presents itself: Gentlemen, what do we get for our money...
...large penthouse. Fresh flowers are everywhere. Bathrooms are glass and gray slate with big round tubs. There are fireplaces in most of the bedrooms. No pictures of sailboats and sunsets; in fact, no art at all, except for a single Paul Klee or Joan Miro postcard, mincingly placed behind a candle holder...
...postcard design possibilities are innumerable; "Mem Hotel, an Intimate Lodging in the Tradition of the Core Curriculum" and "Wish You Were Here in Our Gothic Paradise" come immediately to mind. Within a few years, maybe it could get put on the Club Med circuit...