Word: posters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a crisp but low-keyed assault on Callaghan for mismanaging the nation's affairs. "Never has our standing in the world been lower," she declared. "Britain is now a nation on the sidelines." She summed up Britain's needs in a phrase tailored to campaign-poster type: "Less tax and more law and order." In his scornful, witty reply, Callaghan brought down the House by skewering the minor parties for forcing an election in which they may lose heavily. "This is the first time in recorded history," he said, "that the turkeys have been known to vote...
...know if there have been many complaints about the Class of '54 reunion comittee's nudie poster, but I would like to assure your readers that there are many women (and men) who find it offensive. Messrs. Arnold, Strauss and Hill may not acknowledge it, but I submit that they chose an unzipped female figure for their poster to create a leering, sophomoric tone which they thought would attract their 45 year-old-plus classmates back to the scene of their frisky undergraduate lives...
Unfortunately the exploitation of women's bodies to peddle almost anything is commonplace as evidenced by the beer ad on the back page of the Saturday, March 17 Crimson, the issue containing the poster article. The ad features a drawing of a young woman throwing off a beer label wrap to reveal her big-breasted, round-bottomed, scantily-clad body...
...products. This use is so prevalent that many of us are tired of taking the time to write letters and make phone calls every time we see a blatant example. For that reason I'm enormously grateful to Naomi F. Chase who made the time to complain about the poster to alumni and development officials...
Some analysts speculated that Deng had ordered the crackdown under pressure from hard-lining Politburo members in exchange for the right to pursue his modernization program. The new campaign has already had a visible effect on the democracy wall. Last week only one poster defended human rights. The others called for nothing bolder than catching up with the West by the year 2000-in weapons and industry, of course...