Word: postcarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much more cataclysmic event the next day, when the unsuspecting Lucy ventures out of the Pensione for the first time to meet the "real Italians," foreshadowing the way Adela Quested in A Passage to India will go in search of the "real Indians." Innocently perusing the wares of a postcard vendor in the main square, Lucy stumbles onto a street fight--an Edwardian equivalent of a gang war. Fainting away at the sight of a youth expiring at her feet, she is carried off by the already enamored George, no doubt eager to demonstrate his frustrated manhood for the sake...
...candid shots of life on the range aren't pretty. While postcard-stills of the sleeping town before sunrise frequently interrupt the screen, the camera focuses for the most part on relentlessly exposing the routine exhaustion of life in the pits: from the hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches...
...veteran catcher made the call after receiving a postcard a day from Johnson all season, who made it a point to write to her hero after each Oriole outing--win or lose...
...Council sponsored the Harvard postcard drive and has worked with the regional student groups to organize the March 14 rally
...Just hold me close and tender. Forget about the act.' " Taking up the challenge, Landers posed the query to her female fans: "Would you be content to be held close and treated tenderly, and forget about 'the act?' " She requested a simple yes or no response on a postcard, together with an indication whether the woman was over or under...