Word: postcarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books was The Fan, the story of a deranged youth who stalks an actress. Inside was an unmailed postcard with portraits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan on one side. On the reverse was a bizarre message to Actress Jodie Foster, 19, with whom Hinckley was infatuated: "Dear Jodie, Don't they make a darling couple? Nancy is downright sexy. One day you and I will occupy the White...
Chia's bulgy operatic figures pose like Michelangelos and flourish their tiny daggers at frantic women. He will take a tourist postcard view of the Grotta Azzurra in Capri, render it big, add a floating Chagall girl upside down, add a few written phrases in the manner of '20s Mird, and title the whole pasticcio thus: In Strange and Gloomy Waters If a White Dot Shines If a Child Jumps I Will Approach Her Flight, 1979. Chia's visions may not be very deep, but nobody could accuse him of having a defective swizzle stick...
...company has been trying for several hours to shoot a scene featuring the song Hail, Poetry ("For what, we ask, is life/ Without a touch of poetry in it?"). Director Leach sees the scene as a tableau, a Victorian postcard. He has shot it before, but the results seemed to him "like a bunch of people standing in a field." Shooting it again is costing money, and Universal Pictures has begun prodding Papp about costs; the production, which is scheduled for release later this year, was budgeted at $9 million and now seems likely to come in at about...
...Harvard Campaign hits the $350 million mark, thanks to a $100 million contribution from an anonymous donor in Queens. "Actually, it's only a postcard with a pledge on it, but we're confident enough that we've renamed Holyoke Center 'John Doe Plaza,'" campaign officials say happily...
...Palestine's official home, but in her mind her true home is likely to lie elsewhere. That mind is not entirely her property even now, any more than is her story, which is told in leaflets distributed by the P.L.O. as part of its public relations. A postcard showing Palestine in a respirator bears a printed message in French that may be mailed to friends and allies. It refers to "Technologic Israelienne"and swears that Palestine "est determinee a continuer la marche vers la liberte." Whether or not the baby has such determination at the moment, she will probably...