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...first time in five years there were announcements of "mobilization rallies" of the masses to denounce the sins of China's two new "monsters and demons." A wall poster, charging Lin Piao with revisionist thinking, appeared on the docks in Shanghai, and for three nights running Peking television showed huge new screens being set up at Peking University; they obviously would soon carry their own slogans supporting the new campaign. For two days last week the entire front page of People's Daily was devoted to a formal announcement of "a mass movement initiated and personally...
...that a correction was in order. "I'm going to pull your nose off!" he cried, tugging at the proboscis of California Governor Ronald Reagan. Chris, who has several birth defects, was posing with Reagan in the Governor's Sacramento office for an Easter Seal fund-raising poster. "Hey," grinned Reagan, "I'm going to take your nose off too," and he returned a friendly tweak. Then he offered his constituent a perk: the jar of jelly beans he keeps on his desk...
...Uncle Sam hat and costume and the forcefully extended index finger easily evoke the World War I recruiting poster. The face, though out of context, is similarly recognizable: the gimlet eyes, bowling-pin nose and mashed-potato jowls could only be a particularly cruel caricature of Richard Nixon. And the message boldly lettered around the cartoon character provides a jolt that shakes the drawing's dissonant elements into place: YOU NEED...
...lunching with friends. Six other kidnapers, who had earlier infiltrated the club, quickly rose from their tables to help shove the American into a getaway car. Several days later a photograph was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers by the E.R.P. showing a nervous Samuelson posed in front of a poster of Che Guevara, the Argentine-born guerrilla killed in Bolivia...
...year-old martinets were memorizing verses that told them of their ineradicable debt to Chairman Mao. Ideological work for their elders took place in a "recall bitterness" room, where melodramatic clay figures of pre-Liberation exploited workers were neatly set on display opposite a collection of San Francisco leftist poster...