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...turns out, you don't have to grow up in a postcard place these days to feel agreeable about the world as you find it. In a TIME/CNN survey of graduating seniors in 13 high schools along Highway 50, very few of them sounded like Marilyn Manson (rock bogeyman). A few of them sounded like the Brady Bunch (holy innocents). A lot of them reminded us of Lisa Simpson (cartoon goddess--aware of life's shadows, inclined to make for the light). Three-fourths hold the sobering belief that we are pulling apart as a nation rather than coming together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDEPENDENCE DAY: SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIFORNIA | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

From Hollywood, U.S.A., comes a postcard from ABBY TEMPLETON, missing in action since forever. Apparently Abby's been writing screenplays, one of which, Muscle Sock, was almost optioned by Val Kilmer's production company. His film work keeps him pretty busy, but in his spare time Abby writes poetry and stalks Demi Moore. He says he'd love to hear from any classmates in the business. His car fax number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLASS TRASH | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GRADER'S REPLY | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...just got a postcard from a friend of mine on vacation in Tahiti. The picture in front is of a bunch of smiling, tanned people in bathing suits on a beautiful, sun-drenched beach. The note on the back is short. "Having a great time," she wrote. "Wish you could be here." As if I wasn't bitter enough, still shivering from having just run over to the Mather mail boxes through the cold of a January morning in Cambridge, she signed a short P.S. at the bottom: "Hope finals are going well." I walked back to my room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save Our Sanity: Reform the Calendar | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

Last month FBI agents also watched Nicholson drop a sealed airmail envelope into a mailbox in Dunn Loring, Virginia. Inside the envelope was a picture postcard that read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEACHER OR TRAITOR | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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