Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like a Poster. Claiming that the Tories' "modernization" plans for new roads, schools and housing were borrowed from Labor, Wilson said tartly: "Imitation is the sincerest form of political desperation." Why, he continued, "have we heard so little about modernization in the past twelve years? I never undervalue the power of repentance, but it has taken a very long time...
Wild Beasts. Braque always remembered watching, when he was a youth, as a poster of Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril was slapped on a nearby wall. Before the paste could dry, Braque peeled off the poster and tacked it up in his bedroom. At the age of 18, he was apprenticed to a decorator in Paris, feasted on the impressionists then in vogue, and began painting in the style of the coloristic Fauves, the "wild beasts...
With unaccustomed modesty, Editor Blair, the only Poster whose name appears twice on the masthead, confined his response to the verdict to eight words. "We are very disappointed," he said, "and we shall appeal...
...pressing for civil rights legislation, raved Barnett, the Kennedy brothers were aiding a "world Communist conspiracy to divide and conquer" the U.S. To prove that the Negro push for equality is linked with Communism, Barnett reached into his briefcase and pulled out a poster issued by the Georgia Commission on Education. In a display reminiscent of the late Joe McCarthy's famed "I-have-here-in-my-hand" performance, Barnett claimed that the picture in the poster showed Negro Leader Martin Luther King Jr. at the "Highlander Folk School for Communist Training, Monteagle, Tenn...
...would have made a serviceable little picture for the double-bill circuits. But blown up out of proportion in deference to the man who is now the Great Big Skipper, and yakked up out of believability by miles of comic relief, it has become a wide-screen campaign poster. One merciful antidote: smiling Cliff Robertson has been allowed by Director Leslie Martinson to play Skipper Jack with vigor, not vigah; there isn't a single hand-stabbing J.F.K. mannerism in sight...