Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rear view of a G-stringed nymph was bad enough. The photo of a smiling black woman swathed in chains was even worse. But the final straw was the June 8 poster of a scantily clad prostitute proffering the wares of her trade. When that picture ran on the cover of Stern, West Germany's largest illustrated weekly (close to 2 million in circulation), ten feminists demanded a court order barring the magazine from depicting women as "mere sex objects." Insulting one woman, they charged, is insulting them...
...negotiating without authority and using the peace process to burnish his own image. Begin suggested that the Cabinet postpone its discussion on Weizman's talks with Sadat for another week. Furious at this snub, Weizman stormed out of the Cabinet session. Next day he tore a peace poster from a wall outside Begin's office...
...Knesset broke into an uproar. Rabbi Menachem Hacohen, a member of the Labor Party, asked: "What is that? A peace poster?" (The reference was to an earlier incident in which Defense Minister Weizman had ripped down a poster outside Begin's office.) Called out Meir Peil, head of the left-wing Shelli Party: "A Premier on the rostrum ripping up papers?" Begin answered with sarcasm: "Did I wake you up, Knesset Member Peil? Shalom alechem...
...Butterfield also earned a reputation as a social activist, who spoke out often on the Vietnam War. Kirsti Gamage, the current secretary of Social Studies, said yesterday she remembers her "delight on going to the Registrar's Office and seeing this lovely lady who had attached a poster of Chairman Mao to the wall...
...true that Fine is a big fan of soul music. Beaming proudly at a poster on his Claverly wall yesterday afternoon. Fine pointed and said, "You see that? That's my Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes poster. I like to get down to that Philly sound...