Word: sloganeer
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...whom the world trusts." That is the campaign slogan being used by Kurt Waldheim, who became an international figure during ten years as United Nations Secretary-General, in his current campaign to become President of Austria. Last week the motto became an ironic taunt to Waldheim, who had been favored to win the May 4 election. Documents and photographs, apparently leaked by opponents, provided compelling evidence that Waldheim was a member of two Nazi organizations and served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim, 67, compounded his dilemma with a vague...
...sympathetic to the Soviet position on questions of peace and the nuclear buildup. Asked last summer what he and President Reagan might have in common if they were to meet, Palme said with a twinkle, "I suppose you could say we share the same political slogan--stay the course...
Thursday night, the council tried again. It held a public forum soliciting student opinion about recent council decisions, as well as suggestions on issues to tackle in the future. The council even made cute posters, featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, with the slogan "Come Kvetch At Us." They bought Sprite, Fanta, Coke, Diet Coke, Tab, Ruffles, Pretzels, Doritos, Oreos, and even Blueberry Newtons, hoping to attract the hungry if no one else...
...will not replace protests in the streets, but a six-month-old Seattle company has come up with a new way for people to make a social or political statement. Called Message!Check, the firm works with printers around the U.S. to produce personal bank checks that bear slogans like THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK AND DRIVE. Message!Check has recruited several nonprofit organizations, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to supply slogans. The organizations, in turn, encourage their supporters to buy the checks and use them for paying bills. A new check commissioned by the National Organization for Women debuted this...
...most familiar and redolent of the American $ mood over the years. "Keep 'Em on the Run" crys a World War II poster bearing crude caricatures of Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini. In a 1971 Viet Nam- era placard, a Marine drill sergeant braces new recruits with a more subdued slogan: "We Don't Promise You a Rose Garden...