Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARMONY WITH Richard Wilbur's very liberal verse translation of Moliere. Steven Corning's production of Tartuffe is a lively and imaginative rendition of a great comedy. You couldn't have missed the poster, so you ought to see the play...
...insatiable cocks and cunts of Los Angeles suburbanites become an overextended, tiresome metaphor for the political machinations of the pricks in Washington. It seems that every time two beautiful people are in close enough proximity to become aroused, Nixon's face appears on the screen, either on a wall poster, beaming with that entreating, deceitful smile, or on a television, unctuously articulating the campaign pledges to "bring the nation together...
Then there is the myth of the homesick. While typing out a 20-page paper in the sterile gloomth of his monastic room, with its poster less walls and chill dampness, this student becomes lost in visions of refrigerators crammed with roast beef and coke, cupboards overflowing with Oreo cookies and cinnamon buns, trays filled with chocolate candies and salted peanuts (and perhaps marmalade candies if it's Passover). A late night movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is on the living room television as the student fixes himself a salami and cheese sandwich with a pickle...
...procedure is the one phase of making figures that is excruciatingly boring. When I am tackling art unfamiliar track. I closet myself in my handicapping room with a minicalculator, a set of charts of all the races run at the track during the previous year, several big sheets of poster paper. A few sharp pencils, a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a belief that the ensuing hours of drudgery will eventually...
...effective way. Today, we would be protesting what we were asked to do, what we were required to, what our teachers were not doing. But I pulled this Charlie Chaplin hoax my senior year and announced a lecture in the chapel by the famous comedian Charles Chaplin. The poster we made up announced that the lecture was arranged by this professor, the man we were gunning for, who was a great name-dropper in the field of theater. Hundreds of cars came. It was a mess and got totally out of hand. They said they would throw out the students...