Word: postcarded
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...continuous vroom of oblivious Ferraris. A few years ago, staring despondently across Kensington Gardens through a late spring haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold and foreboding: Ferraris and investment banks and high manners alongside Wordsworth’s thronged alleys; abject poverty beside obscene wealth is a good place to write history or poetry but not much of a place to live...
...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...
...Lots of tickets from French museums,” Kauble observes. Pointing to a Bonnie Raitt/Lyle Lovett ticket stub, he notes, “She likes old country music. Maybe she’s from Nashville.” In the desk drawer, he finds a number of postcards and papers. “Uh-oh. ‘Love Brian’ [he reads on a postcard]. There’s a ‘Brian’ in her life. Looks like her ex-boyfriend of sorts, based on what he wrote...
...restaurant spaces to fill and needed a megastar to anchor the project. Even though Keller had left New York under a cloud, Himmel was betting he could lure him back. The enticement was prime location--floor space in one of the most exclusive parts of the city, with a postcard view of the park...
...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...