Word: posters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final Syrian checkpoint is at Zahrani, twelve miles north of the Litani River. There a large color poster of President Hafez Assad beams down at the red-bereted paratroopers. South of the checkpoint the road is deserted. The fields are desolate, showing no sign of care or life. Even the crows have flown to richer lands...
DOWN THE STREET from the Wilbur, at the Astor moviehouse, The Saga of Dracula is now playing. Its sleazy poster claims "The King of Vampires sucks on." Perhaps it would have been more worthwhile to have seen the entertainment there, rather than to have hiked down to the Wilbur--where the King of Vampires simply sucks...
Some Sinologists believe that these documents, which have had limited circulation inside China, are the work of embittered party officials who were purged by Hua for complicity with the Gang of Four. Equally intriguing are homemade wall posters suggesting that China now has a small human rights movement. In Kunming, one poster demanded that people be allowed to live where they please instead of being assigned their place of residence. Another called for the abolition of the system whereby husbands and wives are separated by their jobs for long periods of time. In the northwestern city of Sian, a poster...
False Alarms. Teng's comeback-long expected but oft delayed-unfolded in the mysterious, equivocal style that is typical of high-level politics in China. The first signal that his official rehabilitation was forthcoming came early last week when a wall poster suddenly burst into view in the northern sector of Peking. Brushed on a 40-ft. strip of yellow paper, the bold black characters exhorted Chinese to warmly welcome and firmly support Teng's re-appointment to his former posts. During the night, however, the poster vanished, all traces of its message scraped off the wall. Some...
...travel miles before it is picked up-or dog-naped. If it winds up in an animal shelter and is not claimed within five days it will probably be destroyed. For a $30 fee Keane advises the client on how to find his pet and supplies a form poster that can be individualized with a description of the loved one (Keane recommends a minimum $50 reward). For $100 plus expenses he will devote himself exclusively to finding one pet, and with the Irregulars will scour a neighborhood as thoroughly as Mr. Holmes on the trail of Professor Moriarty...