Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days early in 1964, Graphics Designer Dennis Wheeler kept himself busy tearing up old TIME covers. From the bits and pieces of back issues, he pasted up a collage -a poster designed to advertise TIME'S traveling art show of original cover portraits. But TIME'S editors were not quite satisfied with the result of his assault on other artists' visions of various personalities. "My God," said one critic, "he ripped Senator Javits right in half...
Wheeler's poster was not used. Even so, the basic plan stuck with him. Collage seemed to him to be an ideal way to convey a complex idea. Moreover, it was a technique with which he could work quickly. So when he was asked to try a cover on the bombing halt, Wheeler was ready the next day with five different versions. The following day, he finished three more. The collage that was finally chosen shows President Johnson framed by a raggedly outlined bomb. The red octagonal shape that makes up the background is the familiar roadside stop sign...
...Poster Image. In coastal Khanh Hoa province, the self-defenders proved good enough to rouse the Viet Cong to print a poetic broadside...
...initiator of all this, Tom Hayden, is a recruiting-poster image of an American. Handsome and a rangy 6-ft. 3-in., Hayden wears the black uniform of his irregulars and drives around Phu Vinh in his Jeep, a Swedish-K submachine gun at his side and a .45-cal. pistol on his hip. He was a champion discus thrower at Long Beach College, later worked as an aerospace systems analyst and as a television actor (The Rounders, The Young Marrieds...
...week ended, Arias was still in police custody, as was Felix Villamedial, a 32-year-old teacher who donned a poster shortly after Arias set off. There were reports that more encartelados might be appearing soon in other Spanish cities...