Word: posterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turmoil of the late 1960s only hardened his political views; when the 130 high school seniors at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in Buffalo registered to vote in 1972, Paxon was one of only two who registered Republican. He was, he remembers proudly, "the only one with a Nixon poster in my locker...
...meeting was two years ago, on a street in Hollywood: Pam Grier, queen of ultraviolent "blaxploitation" flicks in the '70s, ran into Quentin Tarantino, king of ultraviolent indie cinema in the '90s. The director, it turned out, was a big fan. He even had a poster of Grier's 1973 movie Coffy up on his office wall. THE BADDEST ONE-CHICK HIT-SQUAD THAT EVER HIT TOWN! boasts the poster, which sports an illustration of a shotgun-wielding Grier in low-riding stretch pants and a revelatory bikini top. "I got an idea," Tarantino told Grier. "I want to write...
MOSCOW: History is a cruel and capricious mistress, a fact of which nobody ought to be more aware than Pizza Hut poster boy Mikhail Gorbachev. The man once feted as the visionary whose reforms brought down the Iron Curtain has been reduced to a prop in a fast food...
...produced this much enthusiasm." She's talking about the visitors--some of them doing their holiday shopping--who wait for the gallery to open each day. Darren Check, a law student at Temple University, picked out a $5 skyline for his apartment and said, "This costs less than a poster." David Rosenberg, an attorney, and his wife Lucia, who owns a small business, bought three paintings. Donna Benner, a talk-show producer, was back for her seventh time and had already bought 20 pieces. "I have kids, and it's a way to introduce them...
...never go free. A former electrician in Beijing, Wei first gained notoriety with a 1978 essay advocating that Deng Xiaoping broaden his campaign to carry out "Four Modernizations"--of industry, agriculture, science and the military--to include democracy as a "fifth modernization." The next year, after writing a wall poster that accused Deng of being a dictator, Wei was arrested...