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...been put on notice -- and are noticeably less aggressive. "If I'm asking for trouble, then I'll get it," says Danny LaJoie, sitting cross-legged on a street corner, a cup of loose change at his feet. From his back pocket, LaJoie pulls out a black-and-white postcard showing four drunks slumped against a building. It reads, "Greetings from Seattle . . . America's most livable city!" These days the joke just isn't the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Spare a Dime - for Bail? | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

SAMMY and Rosie would be a great comedy on the basis of its dialogue alone. Sammy, intent on throwing a fete for Rafi, says, "We can't let a little torture get in the way of a party." Rafi writes a postcard: "Streets on fire, wish you were here...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Return of the Naive | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

...product: prescription drugs. G.D. Searle -- best known for introducing the first birth-control pill and NutraSweet, the widely used sugar substitute -- is offering full refunds to customers who find the company's medications ineffective or experience unpleasant side effects. All a patient has to do is fill out a postcard-size form with information about where the drug was bought and how much it cost, and attach the sales receipt. The patient's physician signs the form, sends it in, and Searle mails the check to the --customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Easing Pains In the Wallet | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...whereas it is the simplicity of Costner and Young's love affair that charms viewers (there's never any doubt from first eye-contact on that they will make a picture-postcard couple, romping hand-in-hand through D.C., sailing happily in Annapolis Bay...), simple doesn't quite make it in the world of high-stakes political intrigue...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: No Exit | 8/21/1987 | 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: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Response | 8/18/1987 | See Source »

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