Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing more defeating than to win all the time. TITLE TOWN, U.S.A. read street-corner signs in proud Green Bay, Wis., and a huge dressing-room poster proclaimed: HOME OF THE GREEN BAY PACKERS-THE NEW YORK YANKEES OF FOOTBALL. Like baseball's Yankees, the World Champion Packers seemed invincible; they were unbeaten in six preseason and ten regular-season games. They boasted the highest-scoring offense (309 points), the stingiest defense (74 points) in pro football, and sportswriters called them "the greatest team ever assembled...
...wretchedest slum quarter of Partinico. a pinched little town near Palermo, a man lay starving last week. Friends dropped in to ask "Come va oggi [How are you today]?'' and the man would answer, smiling. "Bene, benissimo.' Over his cot a poster proclaimed: "The Dam Means Wealth, the Dam Means Progress, the Dam Means Confidence...
...Close, 61, owns a Las Vegas mortgage loan company, has a house with a palm tree growing through it. The top of the tree is spotlighted at night, now bears his campaign poster: M. D. CLOSE FOR GOVERNOR. His vague platform centers around a state lottery, which is illegal. But, platforms aside, he candidly admits: "I have a purpose in running-I wanna be elected...
...tempera and watercolor paintings in the Munich show demonstrate that, though influenced by the early impressionists, his style could scarcely be called modern. He scorned his fellow Russian, Kandinsky, the first major abstractionist. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Pasternak drew a war poster showing a wounded soldier, which became immensely popular even though the Czar criticized it on the ground that it aroused pity rather than admiration for bravery. Four years later the Soviet government used the same poster as anti-war propaganda...
...featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign, the poster girl (Anita Ekberg) comes down and offers to be his, all 50 ft. of her. Like a huge cat, she toys with her ankle-high mouse. She lifts him to the glacier-like promontories of her bosom, and poor Antonio drops his umbrella into the crevasse. She plucks...