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...lucky, he can get tapes of most of his books, but this year, he and his roommate Mike Schindley say they struck out in tutorial readings. Mike xeroxes his roommate's reading lists and sends away to New York for the tapes--"You know, you have to use a stamp and an addressed envelope for that kind of thing--he can't do that," Mike says teasingly. For the books that are not taped, the University provides readers, but writing papers takes a long time. Ed doesn't like to take advantage of his teachers too much--but a Spanish...
...famous compositions. But cineastes who have no special fondness for ballet will derive considerable pleasure from the plot's many twists and the consistently slick performances Ross culls from his cast. The Turning Point may not represent a departure from the highly commercial repertoire of films bearing Ross's stamp, but what he lacks in vision he makes up for in pure craft...
Deflation of a sort has arrived at the U.S. Postal Service. To help shrink its $652 million annual deficit, the service is experimenting with reducing the size of the 13? stamp to .66 in. by .78 in. from the traditional...
...stamp-the smallest ever issued by the U.S. Government-wins public acceptance, the Postal Service may soon adopt the smaller format for all the 13? stamps that it sells in sheets. Since about 3.6 billion of them are issued each year, the annual savings in paper is expected to be some $700,000. Sorry, but the economical ministamp cannot be sold in rolls; that would make obsolete all the vending and high-speed affixing machines...
...thin lines dashed across the backs of picture postcards take their place. For the rest of the film, then, Varda allows herself to jump back and forth in time, from Suzanne to Pomme to Suzanne again, making the transitions through shots of a map or a postage stamp. Such a device is really only a flimsy coverup, justifying the connection of two largely unrelated stories. The film fails dramatically because no working relationship is even established between the two women; their friendship, like the solutions to their problems, exists only in the fairytale world of Varda's imagination...