Word: postcarded
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...each of these cinematic clichés appears to be placed in the very faintest of mocking quotation marks. Is it sex on the beach they want? Huston crams the frame so full of Gina fore and Jennifer aft that it looks like a wish-you-were-here postcard from Coney Island. The rifled dispatch case? When the four villains rummage through the Englishman's box, they find nothing but a letter to a minor colonial official and a hot water bottle−and are humiliatingly caught in the act to boot...
Enclosed was a Winter Schedule of Radio Moscow's "North American Service" and a picture postcard showing a giant skyscraper...
...Waiting Room? The word medieval still holds a connotation of cobwebbed armor, bad sanitary facilities and picture-postcard Gothic cathedrals. Although 20th century historians deal more kindly with medieval man than did their Victorian forerunners, he still seems even further removed from modern mentality than the classic Greeks and Romans...
There has always been a bit of the mystic in midterm and final grades. The student troops off to Memorial Hall and writes for an afternoon. Soon thereafter he receives a postcard; the only evaluation of his efforts is in a cryptic, insufficient mark. Though there were frequent requests by students who wanted to see the error of their ways, professors had a good excuse for not returning blue books. University regulations, they said, forbade handing the tests back to the students. Instead, the professor had to store the books for a full year. The ruling, perhaps, was a little...
...schoolboy on his first visit to Paris. With visions of Camille and René Clair movies and Tropic of Cancer commingling gloriously in his head, he has rushed off down all the side streets in search of life, and has emerged, after interminable researches, triumphant-with an expurgated postcard...