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...carry on, brave Postal Service, the Target thought as he grudgingly addressed his correspondent in Lexington as 02173-8087. Carry on through snow and rain and gloom of night, for even those numbered citizens who sometimes make fun of you still need you and depend on you. --By Otto Friedrich
...ruby lips in the film's opening credits give way to a wedding attended by normal, nerdy young Americans Brad Majors (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon), the audience in Coconut Grove, Fla., flings rice gaily in the air. When the young lovers get stranded in the rain, regulars in Denver douse the front rows with squirt bottles. When Brad and Janet see "a light over at the Frankenstein place," hundreds of lighters, flashlights and one small '50s table lamp illuminate the Eighth Street Playhouse. In Dr. Frank's old dark house, where Brad and Janet are seduced...
...Little Miss Muffet voice chirps, "I asked my daddy what this Star Wars stuff is all about. He said that right now we can't protect ourselves from nuclear weapons, and that's why the President wants to build a Peace Shield." Chunky red missiles begin to rain down, but they harmlessly disintegrate (pop! pop!) when they hit a bluish , Crayola arc in the sky. Presto, the arc becomes a shimmering rainbow, and the frowning sun begins to smile...
...Crack, craack, craaaack," booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black...
Paul Carlin could deal with snow, rain and the gloom of night, but the U.S. Postal Service finally succeeded in staying him from his appointed rounds. After only twelve months as Postmaster General, the 16-year postal careerist, age 54, was fired last week by the Postal Service Board of Governors. His replacement as the 66th successor to Benjamin Franklin: Albert Casey, 65, a tough manager who retired as chairman and chief executive of American Airlines last year...