Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of picking sides, however, has not been solved, and the first two acts languish a bit because of it. Arden says in the introduction to the play, which is excerpted on the Loeb poster, that he is a timid man and that the play advocated complete pacifism timidly. The vacillation is within the play as a whole, in the dealings between characters and not neatly bottled in any one of them...
...drawing; he is willing to admit that he has taken at least six trips, "before it was illegal, of course." His first foray into bizarre design was his own wedding invitation, worked out in a print shop of which he was co-owner. He followed this with a protest poster against the war in Viet Nam. Both were great hits with the local hippies ("They blew their minds," Wilson recalls), and soon he was being commissioned by rock-'n'-roll bands to do dance-concert posters. The first one, for "The Jefferson Airplane" and "Big Brother...
...Norman B. Ryder, director of the University of Wisconsin's Center for Demography and Ecology, and Charles F. Westoff, associate director of Princeton University's Office of Population Research, and reported to the Notre Dame Conference on Population last December. †A play on the safety poster: "Ninety percent of accidents are caused by people...
Everywhere, ongoing fads are picking up momentum. Among the campus set, wall posters depicting its heroes and anti-heroes are bigger than ever. "When wa-,j#^ '" " ter is boiling, it's hard to tell when it gets hotter, but the fad hasn't reached its peak," says Martin Geisler, owner of Manhattan's Per PROTEST BUTTON sonality Posters. Right now the Monkees are the most popular of his 70 posters; other favorites, each for $1, include Chairman Mao, Dracula, the Hell's Angels, Shirley Temple, Humphrey Bogart, Allen Ginsberg in his Uncle Sam suit...
...death of such original flights of fancy was the spread of culture. When the amateur artist was forced to compete with cheap lithographs and daguerreotypes, he copied them in all their banality, and thereby lost his own fresh vision. He Returns No More, for instance, is high-camp poster art, probably derived from a contemporary print by Paul Schnitzler...