Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting in Szechwan was only the most prominent of Mao's troubles last week, as spelled out in the big-character graffiti of wall posters. China-watchers did not believe all the vivid writing on the walls, but even at a discount the poster accounts added up to widespread turmoil. Some 35,000 autoworkers in Manchuria were said to have wrecked eight schools used by the Maoists as bases. The posters described clashes in Peking and Shanghai, claimed that fighting took place in Shantung in east China, in northwestern Sinkiang, the site of China's nuclear installations...
Last week, while Mother wheeled and dealed, daughter spent her spare time in her bedroom listening to rock 'n' roll and contemplating a huge poster of her father. At times, Romina seems dazed by all the hoopla, as if she were trying to remember where she mislaid her childhood. Then, the little girl in her peeping through, she sighs: "I would like to play a fairy because it can make things happen, and it's pure and innocent and beautiful the way people basically...
There was a U.N. flag, a Communist flag, a Ho-sheet, and a Mona Lisa poster--but no one was feeling serious. There were just a lot of people milling around doing a total of nothing for at least four hours. It kinda restored your faith...
...Sjoman doesn't train the camera on politics or philosophical discussion or four poster beds steadily enough. He gets distracted. He'll mention retribution, then pass on; he'll hover around brother kissing sister on the mouth and move away. That's his formula: constant titillation without any satisfaction...
...antiwar groups -from the moderate Women Strike for Peace to the "New Left" Students for a Democratic Society and the "Maoist" Progressive Labor Party-distributed literature and sold buttons. "Draft beer, not boys," exclaimed one button in wavy script; "Peace with Beatlespower is Funlove for life," proclaimed a poster that owed more to Lennon than Lenin...