Word: postering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombs could be spent on finding a cure for Addison's disease," for which Wedel is being treated. Some placards were flip. One beery young man carried a sign that said DON'T BOMB US, WE'RE ALREADY BOMBED and on another youth's poster was the request REAGAN-GIVE ME A CHANCE TO REACH YOUR AGE. Some would-be ralliers were absent: the U.S. Government refused to let about 300 foreigners, mostly Japanese, enter the country; Washington claimed most were members of Communist-front organizations. New York City's government, on the other hand...
Undeterred by the show of force, Solidarity members and supporters put up a huge poster of their leader, Lech Walesa, who remains interned. When banners bearing the suspended union's familiar SOLIDARNOSC logo were unfurled, the crowd's cheers were interrupted by the shrill sound of police loudspeakers issuing orders to disperse. Then the militiamen charged, beating demonstrators and bystanders indiscriminately. When the protesters responded with shouts of "Gestapo!" the militia began firing flares and tear-gas canisters into the crowd. High-powered water cannons drove some demonstrators into side streets. Others, less fortunate, were knocked down...
There is a real need for a GSA at Harvard while there is none for the "Straight Students Association, proudly proclaimed on a recent, unsigned poster. Only by forming a community can we change the attitudes that cause difficulties for us. Only through community can we improve things for ourselves and for others. Had I never entered Phillips Brooks House that night and joined the gay community, coming to terms with my sexuality would have been more difficult and more painful...
Even allowing for some exaggeration, it was plain that the engagement was a disaster for Iraq. Dozens of burned-out Soviet-built tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles Uttered the flatlands, many mired in sand softened by March rains. A charred radar dish was draped with a poster of Khomeini and banners that proclaimed GOD is GREAT! Fired by religious fervor and a belief in the rightness of their cause, Iranian soldiers have proved to be a far more potent fighting force than Saddam Hussein expected. "When you believe in God, you win," said a young fighter pilot who, like...
...nudity, plenty of gross-out guts and gore, two or three scares-and it makes no sense whatsoever. Anyone grownup enough to gain legal admission to the movie (it is rated R) will probably find himself either reduced to guffaws or wishing he had stayed home looking at his poster of Nastassia Kinski wearing a snake...