Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Visual Artists Union gallery: "Affinities." The Real Paper describes it as having a "quiet, reflective, inward-looking tone." The poster doesn't do much more than list the five artists who are taking part. Watch this space for further details...
Someone obviously got the message. Three weeks ago, well-financed political organizers, billing themselves as members of the "silent majority," began drawing up plans for a huge pro-Spínola rally in front of the presidential palace in Lisbon. Huge posters showing a man saying "Maioria Silenciosa" (Silent Majority) began appearing on Lisbon walls. Buses were hired and free train tickets were given away to bring people into Lisbon from the countryside. Leftists soon launched a poster counteroffensive, tearing down the silent-majority signs or embellishing them with fangs and swastikas...
Zuno. It had even produced a photo of the old man in captivity, standing in front of a poster of two crossed submachine guns and looking disheveled, and a tape recording in which he supposedly agreed, à la Patty Hearst, with his captors' aims. "He is a bourgeois and represents the exploiting class," said the kidnapers' proclamation. "We social fighters are obliged to use revolutionary means." The group demanded $1.6 million in ransom and the release often political prisoners, all leftists. Both requests were officially ignored by the government. Then last Saturday he was released...
...each day by 7 a.m., Kattel was jumped over many more senior officers to the top job in 1971 and became chairman last month. Kattel has led C & S into heavy investing in Georgia, and the bank's program of loans to black enterprise is a model. A poster on the wall of his office reads: "Either lead, follow...
...Hunan workers accused "certain leaders" in their province of "suppressing and dividing" the citizens. Without giving details, they alluded to clashes in which four were killed, many wounded and scores arrested. One poster named Hua Kuo-feng, the Communist Party boss of Hunan and a member of China's Politburo, as the culprit. Seldom in the current campaign have wall posters dared to attack top-level officials by name. Only a few hours after that poster went up, it was ripped down. This sequence of events has led veteran China watchers to conclude that the radicals still have powerful...