Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...child is a precise metaphysician. He (or she) writes down name, house number, street, town, state, ZIP code, country . . . and then, to be exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments...
...entered a number a little closer to reality--the last three numbers of the Cambridge ZIP code. Luckily, the evil machine did not challenge...
...simply determined never to get involved with anyone who lives outside my zip code for the rest of my life...
Though Murphy gained the attention she sought, Dukakis' quick countermove took the zip out of her dramatics. The feud further disheartened the Democrats and buoyed Republicans, who see their best chance in 16 years of grabbing the Governor's office...
Where does Burns get her own zip? "She has a crazy appetite for this business," says Phillips. She does. Julia Horowitz, a pal from Syracuse days, remembers a vacation they took a few years ago on Antigua: "Every day at 1 o'clock she would go into town and spend two or three hours on the phone with the office...