Word: postcarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some peanut butter at one of the two convenience stores, mail a postcard at the South of the Border post office. It's dark now, and not many people are left around, so I wander the streets and reflect. Amigoland is absolutely deserted, the Mini-Mex golf course dark as night. So this is America, very imaginative, very progressive, and very wealthy. A little grease and pavement, but there's the sweet smell of exhaust in the air and fun all around. Sombrero towers; steak rooms; fireworks; mini gold; barrooms; postcards; ice cream; swimming pools. I feel at home here...
...measure of all things, and to the comforting delusion that human beings occupy the center of the universe. Michelangelo took a whole fresco to describe the end of the world-one kind of achievement. Leonardo managed to put it, so to speak, on the back of a postcard, which may be one reason why we still want to claim him, despite our ignorance of him and his vast cultural distance from us, as a modern artist...
...language, he soon discovered, was filled with political connotations, embodying a bitterness, and an irony, found nowhere else in Russian society. "Censorship there looks attentively, not only at every book, but at every poem, every postcard, even at music," he explains. "Language used in an ironical or satirical form is the single means of expressing protest. In its very savageness it makes for an understanding of the hypocrisy of the situation...
...exhausted on the buildings. The menu still offers such sandwiches as "Amy's All American" (peanut butter with optional jelly), "Billy's Road to Recovery" (cold turkey), and a green salad called "Rosalynn's Remedy." Except for the silent caricatures on souvenirs and the now touching postcard photographs of a younger, happier Jimmy and an unharried Billy, that might well be all I'd have seen or heard of the Carters, unless I'd asked...
...Brazilian musical? The words evoke memories of Carmen Miranda, teeth gleaming, hips undulating, r's trilling, balancing a headdress of tropical fruit heavy enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate...