Word: posterize
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...Cunanan did, Reyes hides in plain sight in Miami, where he chats with a bartender and tries to pick up an older man in full view of his most-wanted poster. As the national media grows obsessed with the manhunt, Reyes begins phoning a tabloid reporter following his story, desperately trying to take control of his own image. "I'm a sympathetic subject," he tells her. "Brilliant. Good-looking. So you let me tell you how it's going down." The tabloid reporter ends the show with a monologue about writing a bestseller entitled Most Wanted which she describes...
...Nine whimsical chalets are set into the lush vegetation, all individually decorated with four-poster beds and terraces looking onto a stream. The live-in owners encourage back-to-basics relaxation: cycling, cooking classes with local ingredients and impromptu arts-and-crafts sessions on the lawn. "A lot of families come here for the relaxed style and open space," says Siwanarak. Handily enough, the valley below is known for its gamut of child-friendly activities, from a monkey school to an orchid farm, go-karting track and, a little further north, the famous Elephant Nature Park sanctuary. For more details...
...sites of sanctuary cities [cities hospitable to illegal immigrants], New York is at the top of the list when Mayor Giuliani was mayor. He instructed city workers not to provide information to the federal government that would allow them to enforce the law. New York City was the poster child for sanctuary cities in the country." Not wanting to escalate the confrontation any more, the Giuliani campaign responded strongly, using Romney's name, but the candidate, notably...
...posters acknowledge this, ironically beginning with some variant of “I can’t believe I’m posting on here.” For beyond any stigma on the activity a poster is seeking to engage in, there is a stigma surrounding Craigslist. The only people there, common wisdom insists, are weirdoes, losers, those whose life plans have not panned out. Otherwise they would be out there in the “scene” that dozens of them claim to be tired of, meeting people on their own and charming them with their...
...Craigslist’s bizarre alchemy of anonymity and potentiality breeds hundreds of such posts. The poster would (I hope) be chagrined to admit in his actual life that he prefers women who “know when to be quiet.” What Craigslist offers is the opportunity to meet such women without any of the consequences of doing it in person. And this possibility drives him—and others like him—to fill the message boards with their specifications. Yet the discontinuity between public persona and private desires can be dangerous...