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...JOIN PENINSULA!" reads the latest poster, "if you're a racist asshole" it forgot...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: PENINSULAR | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...film's poster is boldly simple: a close-up of Clint staring both out of and into the darkness, with a visage as stark and stony as if it were a fifth face on Mount Rushmore. The image is fully aware of its iconic import, of the strength and frailty of stardom in late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN LIKE CLINT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...explore the theory behind Condom Week. While Condom Week is predicated on the assumption that people are having sex, the more central issue is that sex--at least sans condom--is dangerous. As one of the wittier posters made clear, sex with a condom is like sleeping with a lifeguard; sex without it, however, is commensurably lethal. Although the sponsors of Condom Week cushioned their message in fluorescent-colored poster paper and humorous ditties, the essence of their project was to spread the word that sex, despite the casual tone, is far from casual. At the most literal level...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Sexuality Denuded | 2/14/1997 | See Source »

...revolutionary-themed room was perhaps the most intellectually stimulating. On one poster, the Whites who battled the communist Reds in the Civil War were portrayed as wine-swilling fat cats not dissimilar in manner to the depictions of their red-white-and-blue-hatted American counterparts on the congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: GETTING FOGGY | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

Clubs not recognized by the College do not have permission to reserve rooms, poster or apply for University funding...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Democrats Disappear (On Paper) | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

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