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...send his child to military school unless he cleans up his act. The ad’s ingenuity is in taking this threat literally. Clean toilets, it proclaims with teenage exuberance, and your potential to “party on” is endless. Sweep the floor, the poster cries out, and earn $9.85/hr to finance “excellent” times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: comp this! | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...does an “underground” organization advertise itself to the mainstream? Is the mere act of putting up a poster a kind of selling out? This record hospital comp ad explores these paradoxes with verve, maintaining a careful balance between avant-garde aloofness and general-audience accessibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: comp this! | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...entire face becomes a vehicle for expression, communicating not just the emotions that inform “noise,” “punk” and “hardcore,” but also the introductory meeting time for the campus radio station. Lest the poster prostitute itself as mere “infotainment,” however, it carefully undermines conventional forms, eschewing capital letters and most useful punctuation. The result is a kind of aphasic word-pile of nouns and prepositions that emerge from our world but do not resemble it, compelling us with their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: comp this! | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

Lambda President Adam Teicholz, a second-year law student, said he hopes it will include former members of the military who were discharged because of their sexual orientation. Next week, the group will begin a poster campaign around the Law School campus and the Yard, showcasing pictures of gays who were forced to leave the military...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At HLS, Protests Will Greet Air Force | 9/20/2002 | See Source »

...getting them. She keeps in touch with his family. Civil-liberties groups besiege her with offers of publicity and free legal advice, but she ignores them. "My position is, I have a client, and I'm going to do what's best for him. He's not a poster boy for anybody." As for the question mark at the center of all this, she won't comment on her impressions of Padilla or their conversations. "Who cares?" she snaps, in a rare display of annoyance. "I don't see how that's relevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lawyer: The Lawyer: The Accidental Advocate | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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