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When it was Weld's turn to speak, a large and silverheaded Weld supporter--slightly miffed about the sponge balls--whipped his styrofoam Dixie hat frisbee-style across the delegation. His target was a Pierce supporter who was waving a placard and chanting, "Steve, Steve." The Pierce supporter smiled back like a child who has just outwitted a younger sibling as the hat sailed far to his right...

Author: By Erik M. Weitzman, | Title: GOP Takes Center Ring at Convention Circus | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

...truly feel I'm on a mission to help the people of this Commonwealth for whom government is everything," Keverian told more than 500 placard-waving supporters in a series of spontaneous comments after his prepared speech at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Keverian to Run for Treasurer | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

...covered with his never-flagging pencil enough of charta pura ((white paper)) to placard the whole walls of China, and etched as much copper as would sheathe the British Navy." So ran one obituary for Thomas Rowlandson when he died in 1827 at the age of 70. It was not far off. This recorder of the life of Georgian and Regency England left a prodigious number of watercolors, drawings and prints behind him -- perhaps 10,000, though nobody has ever counted them up -- and there is no catalogue raisonne of his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Pursuits of Pleasure | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...body is not an incubator," one jean-clad woman declared with her hand-lettered sign. Her male companion, wearing what seemed to be the preferred preppie apparel of the day, enthusiastically waved a placard asserting his right not to choose whether a woman should have an abortion...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Pro-Choice Mobilization: Signs of the Times | 11/16/1989 | See Source »

Bundled against the late-night chill, placard-carrying pickets took up their posts last week at plant gates all around Seattle. Suddenly, the world's busiest producer of commercial aircraft was crippled. The strike at Boeing by more than 57,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers brought new-plane production to a virtual halt at the company's main manufacturing plants in the Seattle area, where 43,000 of the machinists work, and at other factories in Portland, Ore., and Wichita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounding A High-Flying Giant | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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