Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same token, the dean said she was responding to student complaints. Minority students on campus took the poster to be offensive, an indication that perhaps many on campus would like to return to the 1950s when, in the words of jazz great Gil Scott-Heron, the movies were in black and white and so was everything else. The distrust is great. But we are reluctant to acknowledge that the distrust is legitimate. Somewhere along the line we have lost patience with the demand for sensitivity, and, as a result, we have become immune to those who feel injured...
...dominated by three Paris-based organizations -- Medecins sans Frontieres, Medecins du Monde and Aide Medicale Internationale -- whose aim is to bring medical assistance to troubled and neglected corners of the world, without regard to political orientation or government approval. The need these groups serve is illustrated by an M.S.F. poster showing a doctor examining a sick child. Beneath the photograph is the caption IN THEIR WAITING ROOM: MORE THAN 2 BILLION PEOPLE...
...give a poster or print, A calendar done by Matisse (psst...hint, hint), Or give to an artist a new set of brushes And some fresh-colored paints, for those finishing touches...
...features standard Trump touches like imported breccia perniche marble, a cascading waterfall, bronze plaques with the letter T emblazoned on every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour of Trump's 26th-floor office: its wall of magazine covers, its panoramic view of Central Park, and its reflection of Trump himself in the gold mirror tile ceiling. Then, if time and security permit...
...student who displays the poster in his room said he sees "nothing violent about...