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Lauda Air reluctantly agreed to withdraw the offending magazine from circulation, saying that the cartoonist's intention had been misinterpreted. Was the illustration a come-on aimed at pedophiles? Let the reader judge: the ad consisted of a mock postcard. On one side was a drawing of a bare-breasted little girl in a heart-shaped frame with the inscription "From Thailand with Love." The greeting on the back, signed by "Werner, Gunter, Fritzl, Morsel and Joe," read, "Got to close now. The tarts in the Bangkok Baby Club are waiting...
...postcard-perfect contrast extends far beyond the court, however. Barkley, as he solemnly intones in a controversial new television commercial (he wears controversy like a second skin), is "not a role model." He is "paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court." And off. Barkley's charm -- and his curse -- is to be as free and spontaneous with his mind as with his body, and to throw off wisecracks and elbows in a barrage of no-nonsense, forward-driven bursts of speed that threaten always to whirl out of control. At the Olympic Games last year, one of the most...
...Angeles resident who was accepted to 10 elite colleges. "Even when I wrote saying that I wasn't going to accept admission, [other schools] wrote back hand-written notes wishing me good luck at Harvard. When I accepted Harvard's offer, they only sent me a postcard...
...finally reached the golden palace of the Himalayas!" shouts Eugene Jerome, the lustful 15-year old son of a close-knit Jewish family in Brighton Beach. While Eugene is busy kissing a naked girl on a postcard, the lights dim upon the rest of his family resolving the somewhat weightier issues of sibling rivalry, job loss and parent-child conflict...
...time: Fall, 1991. The place: a kibbutz in Northern Israel, my home for the last six months I receive a postcard from my sister, then a first year at Harvard. The picture: a certain blue tower. --Lori E. Smith...