Word: posters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just starts yelling at me. "Did you get my Marine Corps picture which I mailed to you three years ago?" he says. Three years ago! And then he comes toward the stage waving this thing that looked like a pipe. Luckily, it turned out to be a rolled-up poster of Brooke Shields. What? The guy couldn 't find a copy of my pinup? Actually, it really shook me. And now I hear that he's out on parole for murder. They took him away and everything, but it sure made me homesick for the good old days...
...GDANSK sprouted from the stands and above the crowd outside the stadium amid hundreds of national flags and papal banners. A delegation from the Ursus Tractor Factory, once a hotbed of union activity, made its presence known with a sign reading URSUS WORKERS GREET THE POPE WITH SOLIDARITY. Another poster proclaimed: GOD, HONOR, HOMELAND, WE PRAY FOR THE PRISONERS. Security guards spread throughout the stadium made no attempt to pull down the offending slogans. But officers in blue berets were armed with movie cameras, which they trained on the crowd in an attempt to record the faces of those...
Several organizations have long histories and established traditions which blur the significance of such approval. But to a slew of others. College recognition obtained by petitioning the student faculty College Life committee--can give their endeavors instant credibility, allowing them to poster, use College facilities and seek funding from the Undergraduate Council. It puts the Chess Club on a level with the Rugby Club, and allows brand new literary magazines to publish and distribute door to door, just like the Harvard Advocate, which has produced hundreds of issues and some literary grants since its founding...
...campus and Square have been pulled into ship-shape like some last-minute dress rehearsal. Fences and scaffolds have disappeared, "green miracle" grass has been rolled or sprayed over barren wastes. "All that grass, just so people can sit on it," one current junior marvelled Even the expensive poster kiosks were stripped of their characteristic artwork and painted black...
Glittering islands in the sun. Long stretches of sandy, palm-shaded beaches. Azure waters flecked with colorful sails. These are the popular, still largely correct, tourist-poster views of that playground of the New World: the Caribbean. Sadly, in recent years less enticing images have begun to intrude. They show thick plumes of exhaust spilling from new oil refineries; bubbling, dark cesspools of untreated wastes only a hop away from beaches jammed by tourists; mountainsides scarred by open-pit mining and hardscrabble agricultural plots. The vacation paradise now faces the spread of environmental blight at an alarming rate...