Word: posterize
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...chairman, William H. Donaldson, approached the podium at the annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society last month, he didn't expect a warm welcome. The audience was packed with his firm's sworn enemies, doctors who view the $26 billion-a-year health-care giant as the poster child for all that ails managed care, from draconian cost controls and reams of paperwork to heavy-handed negotiating tactics. Last fall the organization lobbied the state attorney general to investigate Aetna's allegedly abusive practices...
...education hits the local ballot? Count on it: this time, through the scrupulous, if self-interested, exercise of their franchise, boomers will yank the reins of society out of the hands of their children. In every other sphere, we may be every bit as faded as a poster from the original Woodstock. But here, in one final effort to forestall Boomerdammerung, we will summon the vigor to plant our solipsistic flagpole, piercing the heart of the larger society...
...Sally's room, with its lime green walls, holds a series of bowls she purchased in Senegal, fancy hats and a new addition: a "Dawson's Creek" poster...
...House adviser for gay and lesbian issues, Mather resident tutor K. Kyriell Muhammad counseled students grappling with the effects of homophobia. A poster on his door proclaimed his room a "BGLTS Safe Zone...
...redemption. But we as a culture seem to have an equally vested interest in seeing that our public figures remain the same. Bill Gates represents the prerogative of wealth. Mark McGwire, physical power. Stephen Hawking, pure, disembodied genius. We need a stable iconic currency. What if Dick Clark, the poster child for immutability, suddenly began to degenerate like the portrait of Dorian Gray? We'd be appalled. And none of us really wants our President, Bill Clinton, to change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand...