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Word: postman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strains of the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman," WZLX-FM in Boston lambasted Hussein Wednesday for his country's march into neighboring Kuwait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop Song Parodies Mock Hussein | 8/17/1990 | See Source »

...many French companies, Hermes uses local talent to guide overseas operations. Says Chrysler Fisher, an Oklahoman who is president of U.S. operations: "The word elitist makes my blood curdle." Fisher has installed a toll-free phone number to make Hermes products available "to any customer in Des Moines." A postman in Waco, Texas, became Hermes' first U.S. designer after drawing scarves featuring a Pawnee Indian chief and a wild turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Luxe As It Gets | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...advantage over us insofar as their partly ideogrammatic language encourages them to think in terms of images: haiku are the music videos of the printed word). Nor would this be the first time that technology has changed the very way we speak: the invention of typography alone, as Neil Postman writes, "created prose but made poetry into an exotic and elitist form of expression." No less a media figure than Karl Marx once pointed out that the Iliad would not have been composed the way it was after the invention of the printing press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: History? Education? Zap! Pow! Cut! | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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