Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people who watch Sam work drop some dimes or quarters into the bucket that sits next to his workbox-full of Arista Poster Chalk. "I make as much money this way as I did when I used to be a hawker for the Phoenix," Sam tells people who wonder about his income. "It's not much of a living, but it's a decent sort of a life...
...artists. The ease with which he mixes with all strata of Austrians has made him his country's most popular postwar Chancellor, so much so that a Kreisky-souvenir industry has blossomed-complete with Kreisky piggy banks, T shirts and clothes hangers. A bestseller is a wall poster depicting the Chancellor in a superman costume leaping over all sorts of political hurdles...
...steady war against cigarettes. Now their efforts seem to be increasing. Last month Arizona became the first state to take legal action against tobacco by banning smoking in public places. Britain's Health Education Council, meanwhile, turned to shock tactics in its campaign against cigarettes. It released a poster showing a child dragging on a cigarette as he perched in his high chair. Its message: when a child breathes air filled with cigarette smoke, the result can be as bad as if he actually smoked himself...
Both the Arizona action and the British poster may help protect non-smokers from cigarette pollution. But if the experience of Columnist Joseph Alsop is any indication, neither is likely to have much impact on those now addicted to nicotine. Alsop, who is struggling to kick a four-pack-a-day habit, wrote earlier this month that matters requiring calculation, learning and judgment became "inordinately difficult or downright impossible" without the comfort of tobacco. Scores of readers wrote to tell him that they, too, suffered from what Alsop called the "incompetence syndrome," and were unable to do almost everything from...
...been singing in bars and college hangouts since her middle teens, music became the core of her existence after she joined a local rock group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. "I might be the first hippie pin-up girl," she wrote back home ecstatically. Enclosed was a poster of the new Janis, slimmer, draped in swinging beads and bracelets. With her 1967 performance at Monterey she gained instant fame, a contract with New York Rock Promoter Albert Grossman, and shortly after the friendship of Grossman's new publicist, Myra Friedman...