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Word: posterity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...posters feature a picture of a partiallyopen pants zipper with the slogan, "ZIP the Fly(and all other sexist clubs)." One poster reads,"In high school, the only place to get away fromwomen was the men's bathroom. Harvard is so muchbetter. Here we have a whole house...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: New Group Uses Humor, Feminism to Fight Clubs | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

...office, he gave me the society's pamphlets and a poster, and I talked to Valerie Nelson, who coordinates the funding projects. She is a dynamic woman, vastly well-informed about her work...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Saving Beacons of History | 10/20/1988 | See Source »

Earlier, Stephen Comley, an anti-nuclear activist, was removed by security guards when he held up a "Chernobyl" poster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Dragged From NRC Hearing | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...dark sky; it looked like the clouds were going to bowl and smash into the buildings, piling them into the harbor. I followed people with suitcases to the bus shelter and waited for the T shuttle. Across the tracks at the Blue Line stop, the woman on a temp poster had been spray painted to look like a snaggle-toothed devil; someone had even taken the trouble to climb over the third rail, draw in a penis by her mouth and scrawl, "Suck it baby." I hoped I wouldn't have totemp...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Situations Wanted | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...soon as the poster appeared in the perestroika display window on Gorky Street in downtown Moscow, passersby paused to stare and snicker. The hulking, black silhouette shown atop an awards stand was unmistakably that of Leonid Brezhnev, bushy eyebrows and all. But in place of his numerous military ribbons, the deceased Soviet leader wore a row of stripes labeled CORRUPTION, EMBEZZLEMENT, GRAFT and MONEYGRUBBING. The lower tiers of the stand, two caricatured gangsters -- one American, the other Italian -- stared up at Brezhnev with apparent surprise. The caption beneath the cartoon said it all: SO, MAFIOSO, YOU FINALLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Inc. Comes to Moscow | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

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