Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trying and Show Boat, standing on the sidelines of the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants football game at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, doing a bit on the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall, painting the nails on one hand five different colors and signing a poster for Cal Ripken Jr. ("What wonderful blue eyes," she said of her sports co-star last week.) Seles even took the time to comfort Hungarian junior player Edit Pakay, 15, who was crying in the locker room after her defeat...
...women should not be too quick to abandon Faulkner because she is not the perfect poster-cadet, or because misogyny is ebbing, or because the work of integrating all-male institutions is over. At the Air Force Academy, cadet Elizabeth Saum, a champion diver and straight-A student, was forced to take medical leave after playing the POW in a survival-training course. Saum says she was confined with a hood over her head and no food or sleep for two days, splattered with urine, and climbed on by a male cadet who forced her knees apart and simulated raping...
Certainly, her mythic place in American history would seem to make her an unlikely anti-abortion crusader. At the same time, she was never a poster child for the abortion movement. In fact, her participation in the case was not brought on by her commitment to social change, but more buy the fact that she happened to be in the right place at the right time...
Jacoby opened his talk by displaying the poster the IOP used to advertise the event, which had a gaffe of its own--it left the letter e off the word gaffe. He joked that there was no better way to advertise the talk "than the way this showed up on the poster...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other ways to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls. Besides, you can rent original pictures from the Fogg collection cheap-the only fee is to cover the cost of insurance...