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...IDEAS: Stamp Out the Income...
...require the most careful audits could be left without accountants or with lower-quality auditors. "Financial markets could grind to a halt if auditors stop certifying books," warns Rick Telberg, editor of Accounting Today, a New York City newspaper. "Investors are not going to invest unless they see that stamp of approval...
...sinister look to his "eggs," enameled clay shells with weird lobes like giblets or tongues merging from fissures in their surface -- an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers aesthetic," as someone remarked at the time. Its payoff would come 20 years later, with pieces like Big Load, 1988, and Stamp of the Past, 1989, ceramic chunks like blotched meteorites, with sharply cut surfaces of an eye-straining chrome yellow in which a perfectly square black hole opens on the mysterious emptiness inside...
...April Fools' joke. People in the Postal Service are genuinely excited about this. They don't have much else to be excited about, granted, but they're pulling out all the stops for this one. In February, Postmaster General (great name for a band) Anthony M. Frank unveiled the stamp designs on the Showroom stage of the Las Vegas Hilton, site of 839 sold-out performances by the King (someone in the Post Office actually counts these things...
SOME CRITICS DOUBT the wisdom of exalting such a legendary offender of controlled substance laws. But I have a different bone to pick. Why is the Postal Service violating its ban against portraying living Americans on postage? "We've had tremendous interest in this particular stamp," says Frank frankly. And why this sudden burst of glaspost?? "I wanted Elvis' fans to play an active role in the stamp selection process...