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...singer/songwriter named Rickie Lee Jones. I first received a copy of her record, entitled ingeniously enough, Rickie Lee Jones. Then I got a press release telling me that I probably already knew how great Rickie was. While I was digesting that, I got a big full-color poster of Rickie with some philosophical comments about her life and work and ideas on it. And to make sure I was aware of their new talent. Warner Records sent me a postcard (they must have only one picture since they put it on the postcard too) telling me to be sure...
Still more proof that the leadership meant business came when plainclothes police two weeks ago arrested four prominent human rights activists as they tried to paste up a wall poster that denounced the authorities for repression. The activists belong to a group that publishes a clandestine journal called Inquiry. Protesting the arrest of its own editor, Wei Jingsheng, 29, the journal complained: "Where is freedom of speech in China? All criticism is fiercely suppressed as contrary to socialism and to the dictatorship of the proletariat. What brutal hypocrisy!" A wall poster responding to Deng's speech sneered that...
Unfortunately the exploitation of women's bodies to peddle almost anything is commonplace as evidenced by the beer ad on the back page of the Saturday, March 17 Crimson, the issue containing the poster article. The ad features a drawing of a young woman throwing off a beer label wrap to reveal her big-breasted, round-bottomed, scantily-clad body...
...products. This use is so prevalent that many of us are tired of taking the time to write letters and make phone calls every time we see a blatant example. For that reason I'm enormously grateful to Naomi F. Chase who made the time to complain about the poster to alumni and development officials...
...Class of '54 would withdraw its poster with apologies, and if The Crimson would get tough in its ad policy, we could all feel that some meaningful steps are being taken toward the equality of the sexes. Bernice Buresh