Word: posters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dressing room, a musician asks Langston to autograph a poster for a friend. The poster is the Unknown Comic's ultimate bag joke. Striking a reclining pose in the nude, Langston wears two bags; one as usual covers his head, the other is positioned a bit more strategically. What makes the picture ludicrous is the bag's size: it looks like is could hold a salami...
...himself and his family. "My brother was involved in leftist politics, and I was afraid I'd be indicted by extension. This way, I hope the government will think me and my parents above suspicion and will never know we're aiding him. But, "he adds, glancing at a poster over his head that warns "YOU have secrets the ENEMY wants. Don't abuse them, "everytime I look at that I wonder if they know about...
Strauss, slicing a salami labeled Freedom Another poster shows Strauss as a butcher (he is a butcher's son), sharpening knife under the caption, "Castrate all libertines." West German courts have outlawed a caricature of the burly Bavarian with a machine gun, and the caption line, "Strauss, the Hitler of today." Strauss is reportedly ready to bring defamation charges against a rock group for a song that contains the ugly refrain: "Franz Josef the pig, Franz Josef the old pig, Franz Josef the lusting swine." When a local prosecutor charged that the song was insulting to Strauss, the band...
...decided I'm against that rule. I don't want someone hanging over my head telling me what to do." A Carter whip overheard her remark. Suddenly, Chip Carter, the President's son, appeared at her seat and kindly offered to autograph her green Carter-Mondale poster. He wrote: "Thank you for your help on behalf of my father. With love, Chip Carter...
...weekends he heads for his bachelor pad in Greenwich Village-a one-bedroom apartment near Washington Square Park. The walls are decorated with Japanese prints, a "Koch for Congress" poster and a David Levine caricature of Hizzoner. Koch has had the rent-controlled apartment since the earlier '60s and now pays only $257 a month, a steal by any New York standards...