Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long before the 30-second commercial or the full-page ad, there was the poster. For more than two centuries, the U.S. has been using colorful placards and broadsides to implore the people to do the right thing, from preventing forest fires to keeping mum about military secrets during wartime. Last week 117 examples of this perennial propaganda tool, drawn by the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn and Norman Rockwell, went on display at the National Archives in Washington in a new exhibition called "Uncle Sam Speaks." The show will run for a year...
...university that only lets you poster bulletin boards and kiosks and doesn't supply paint for students surrounded by peeling walls, how such an unattractive display of pseudo-intellectual neo-garbage be allowed to destroy one of the few highlights of life in the Quad, the Quadrangle itself...
Witnesses said the dead man had been holding up a poster reading "Marcos Concede" when the bullet hit him in the chest, killing him instantly. The woman, 19, was wounded on the forehead...
...Gutwillig '86 sits on the floor and plays with a cat as he speaks of the festival's meaning. "It's about plucking hope out of the shadows of the AIDS crisis," he says. "That's why it's the festival of life and [the words on the poster] are green. We want to show that a positive response is more contagious than the disease itself...
Feeling important, if a little hungry, I set off for OCS-OCL to look for a summer job. Maybe someone would hire a devious turncoat. I couldn't help chuckling at a poster touting Sylvester Stallone as Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man of the Year. This time, the Beast grabbed me by the throat. "Imperialist dog," it growled, "Rambo-loving fascist! I bet you step on Third World nations before breakfast...