Word: posters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battles among the Chinese occupiers were reported to be raging sporadically in Lhasa. Essential services, including transportation, communications and food shipments, have broken down. Taking advantage of the turmoil, Tibetans are issuing anti-Chinese leaflets. Some bolder Tibetans have been seen throwing stones at Chinese civilians and turning wall poster Mao portraits upside down. The Red Guards have sacked virtually all of the Peking-trained Tibetan civil servants for "regional nationalism." Says the Dalai Lama: "There is so much chaos now that it is definite that a change must come about. The Tibetan people may yet get an opportunity...
Some artists have to be introduced to the intricacies of lithography, serigraphy and other techniques. Others have to be guided in making their lettering readable at a glance. Quite a few get carried away with the fun of it all. With a special edition of her 1967 Pittsburgh International poster interweaving script, numbers and a fanciful Mideast landscape, Mary Bauermeister threw in a set of hand-painted wood cutouts. Collectors can glue them on and make it a collage...
...master potter. At his kilns north of Barcelona, Miró fired many ceramics, including the 1958 murals that decorate UNESCO's Paris head quarters. He is currently working on ceramic murals for the Barcelona air port and for a West Berlin broadcasting center. He is also preparing a poster for the 1972 Olympics, and will meet this week with Japanese representatives to discuss a "laugh room" for the 1970 World's Fair at Osaka, which he envisions as a place where visitors can amuse themselves with Miró ceramic grotesques, a fountain and Miró images on Japanese...
Most children are not related to film directors, however, and to them movies on TV are an integral part of their epoch; they are growing up with a borrowed nostalgia for a time they never knew. The once-irretrievable past has become as salable as a personality poster, as audible as a Fred Astaire LP. The late show is ransacked for trivia questions and recherche cliches...
...principle painted everywhere on the Sorbonne's walls: "It is prohibited to prohibit!" The courtyard became a bazaar representing the whole spectrum of the world's left. Overnight, at least ten newspapers appeared-some mimeographed and others printed at cost by sympathetic outside publishers. Peking-style posters covered the courtyard walls. One poster read: "One must not confuse love and revolution. Both are made, but their charm is different." Said another: "Let imagination rule...