Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair. I had always been led to believe that the best team won (in this case Harvard) by a considerable margin. No ifs, ands, or buts. Well, sad to say, sports fans, the real world is not so convenient, simple and pure (How can it be when Ivory Snow poster girl becomes a porno queen...
...downstairs in the Waldorf-Astoria Empire Room, diminutive Joel Grey, 41, was still puttering around naked in his room. The photographer was getting nervous. He had been promised a picture of the 5-ft. 2-in. star wearing his black Ultrasuede tuxedo alongside a life-size poster advertising the entertainer's two-week Manhattan engagement. But Joel's wife Jo was unfazed. "Why don't you take the picture now?" she suggested. So the camera clicked and Sharp Dresser Joel was caught for posterity wearing only a bath towel...
...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...