Word: posterize
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...decade of rapid growth has produced shopping centers and high-rise apartments--and most of the construction has taken place in the past five years. Old houses have been uprooted, replaced by bars and restaurants. The city's first multiplex cinema is about to open. A giant Smirnoff poster in the center of town announces, LIFE IS CALLING. In Indian cities like Mangalore, answering that call has brought consequences no one could have foreseen...
...very, very sad." His comment also captures the perfectly judged pathos of this production, for which Gow has subtly tweaked the ending. "It's a play about death," he explains. "And how you deal with that shows how you value life, I guess." Putting his family snapshot on the poster and program accompanying Away's current national tour (which runs until October) also acknowledges how much the play is about the playwright. "It was a turning-30 play," Gow says, "so it was very much: Where am I from? Who am I? How did I get to be this...
...down on counterfeiting. Yet the trade is flourishing. "We've put very high-level pressure on the Russians to deal with this," says a Bush administration official. Two Bush cabinet heads have discussed allofmp3.com with Russian government ministers, to no avail, he adds. Says the official, "this is our poster child for the problem...
...Moulitsas?s rhetoric and passion have made him a poster boy bomb-thrower. He's the left's own Kurt Cobain and Che Guevara rolled into one, dripping sex appeal for progressives for whom debate has become synonymous with losing, who need a muscular liberal answer to the cowboy swagger adopted by the Bush Administration and its fans...
...restaurants with those warning letters. The protests led to an online petition--drawing hundreds of signatures--calling for an end to business-method patents and asking Cereality to withdraw its patent application. Roth says the group is more concerned with ideology than cereal toppings. "Freeculture turned Cereality into a poster child for anti-patent protest," Roth says. "We're just two guys trying to protect ourselves from big companies that could steal our intellectual property...