Word: postering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...station ambulances outside theaters where its features were playing, supposedly to cart off fainting fans. For The Curse of Frankenstein, it claimed 3,000 victims in the U.S. alone. Often its advertising billboards seem more carefully prepared than its scripts. "There are more nudes in our posters than in our pictures," admits Founder and Chairman Sir James Carreras, who was knighted last year for his philanthropies but is still better known in the film trade as "the High Priest of Horror." It was the One Million Years B.C. poster of a barely wolf-skinned Raquel Welch, not her grunting rendition...
...Louis Nephew and his family might appear to be distant Boston relatives of All in the Family's Archie Bunker. A large American flag waves proudly above the small grass and macadam front yard, and during the just completed mayoral campaign, the flagpole was also decorated with a poster boosting Louise Day Hicks, the antibusing candidate. More important, the Nephews recently refused to send their children to a school outside their Dorchester neighborhood, assigned to them under Boston's busing plan. But inside 12 Edson Street the view is somewhat different, and the Nephews seem less like...
...workers cranked out copies of campaign proposals to be voted on that evening. In the basement of the conference headquarters, preparations were being made for a transatlantic telephone call to Madame Binh in Paris that afternoon. (Heavy press coverage was anticipated.) Behind the stage hung a ten-foot-square poster of flag-draped coffins and huge lettering: "Is this what you'd call phased withdrawal?" Someone had tacked up three posters beside it depicting the imprisonment of Reverend Charles Koen of race-hating Cairon, Illinois, leader of the Black United Front. A statement on racism had been written...
...report, sent to Richard Leahy '56, assistant dean for Resources and Planning Poster estimated
That fall I put a "Rockefeller for President" poster in my window, and after Nixon got the nod, I wore a huge (it's still my largest button) "Our Nation Needs Nixon-Lodge" button that pulled holes in my sweater. I fell asleep in front of the television on election night and went to Miss Gross's fifth grade class the next morning with tears in my eyes...