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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenuous at best, but it gave Collucci an excuse to leave the boring, if secure job at the cafe. He wanted to get some publicity pictures before he took off. "Train stations are cool," he said, and so we went there and another day to his dark, movie poster-filled apartment, and he posed his one pose. It said it all: all the depression, the anger, the disappointment. One day later he left the cafe with a smile on his face, and I knew he was on his way to Chicago...

Author: By Brian F. Sullivan, | Title: Chicago Passport | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

Alas, Mr. Langston tells us the original Unknown Comic poster is no longer available, but he promises a new one soon. We'll stay alert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN ONE EAR | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

SOMETIMES high school kids throw up, so they're excluded from the regular military. But the armed forces never turn away a soul--as part of their outreach, they sponsor JROTC. A recruiting poster explains the concept succinctly. For a few hours every other week in "aerospace education" and "leadership laboratory," students 14 years of age and older earn the following benefits: "Military Ball... Bowling League... Films... Annual Squadron Picnic... Basketball... Color Guard...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Integrity, Responsibility, Honesty... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...JROTC room is lined with posters, all the same size, all hung exactly two inches apart in a stripe around the wall. They feature two different scenes--the fighting airplane at sunset, and the fighting airplane against spectacular backdrop. You have your Stratofortress, and your B-1 against the desert, and your little needle-nosed fighters. One poster lists the words of the National Anthem, and another a moving poem by a retired Air Force officer. Books line one wall--"Black Fighting Men," "The Soviet War Machines" and dozens of out-of-date volumes on UFOs and rockets...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Integrity, Responsibility, Honesty... | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Equal Rights Amendment and Government-paid abortions. With questionable taste, D'Amato also made issues out of his opponent's age and health. Javits admitted that he suffers from motor neuron disease, which is slowly withering his muscles. One D'Amato commercial showed a wrinkled Javits poster slowly falling to the ground as an announcer intoned: "And now, at age 76 and in failing health, he wants another six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate: A Thoroughbred Stumbles | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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