Word: postcarded
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Keep it simple, but not too simple. Steve Forbes was put on the political map by his flat tax. He was taken off by it too. Filing on a postcard lost its allure once the middle class realized the 36% bracket would benefit first and most and, in the meantime, it would be goodbye home-mortgage deduction...
Crew season is a fixture of fall at Harvard. The Harvard and Radcliffe boats are perennially strong, and the image of them gliding swiftly over the Charles River has become a postcard cliche...
...back and forth in time. It tries on different narrative methods; in some chapters dialogue is without quotation marks, while in others they appear. The novel's central event--the reason the narrator chose to tell this story in the first place--could be fairly well conveyed on a postcard. It is, in fact, foreshadowed on page 12. The Last Thing He Wanted is as much concerned with its own telling as it is with the story it tells...
...speaks in many voices. On that first morning after the explosion of TWA Flight 800, amid the overwhelming stench of burning jet fuel and the plane's charred remains, hundreds of letters floated on the surface of the Atlantic, unanchored memories of diplomats, designers, doctors and teenagers. A postcard of the Statue of Liberty had become an interrupted souvenir, an image of the monument born in France that never made its way home. Out of a camera bag fished from the waste came a list in pencil, in what seemed to be a young girl's handwriting. Amy: light pink...
...known to the Greeks as "the Good King," has long been overshadowed by "the Bad King," Khufu (also known as Cheops), his more famous son and successor. Because Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, is more accessible to tourists, it has become the picture-postcard landmark. Snefru's monuments, by contrast, sat on an army base in Dahshur, 13 miles away. For much of this century, they were concealed behind barbed wire and watch towers, off limits to all but a handful of archaeologists...