Word: posterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last, a bedroom where the walls do speak. On the door, a sign warns, DANGER, KEEP OUT! THIS ROOM IS GUARDED BY A TRAINED ATTACK GYMNAST. Sweeping left, a Legends of the Fall poster featuring teen idol Brad Pitt is tacked beside a poem titled "Don't Quit." Religious icons hang above the double bed; a handmade quilt hides the outsize teddy-bear slippers stashed below. Though the third wall boasts framed magazine covers of the room's tenant, the reverie of choice is taped to the desk lamp: Brad Pitt. Above the desk, a fanciful collection of macrame dream...
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD Lengthy pleas and support from pals make her the poster girl for the antisweatshop crusade...
Martha Stewart's face is everywhere but on a Wanted poster: in her magazine, on four videos and a dozen books, on TV (twice a day), unofficially on the Internet, at K Mart, and in her catalog (Martha by Mail). In an interview, conducted as she shuttled among her farm in Westport, Connecticut, her two Hampton beach houses on New York's Long Island and her Manhattan office, she says her aim is nothing less than to take over Christmas. "It is our intention to own areas in communication. I don't mean to sound egomaniacal, but Perry Como used...
...even his wall decorations betray his true love. Scrolled across the back of his room is a poster depicting a graph resembling the output from a seismograph. "It's the Riemann zeta function on the critical line," says Kedlaya. Apparently, solving a problem relating to the function is tantamount in prestige to proving Fermat's Last Theorem...
Then he told me--almost as if it was a perfectly normal thing to do--that he had begun to look through his old college algebra textbooks and had started doing problems in them to relearn what he thought he had lost. A few days later, I saw a poster advertising a chamber music concert, with his name as the cellist; he told me afterward that he had once been a professional musician...