Word: walls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long as I could remember, the slogans on the wall of the women's room were a source of escape, a silent echo of the ups and downs faced by women in a male-dominated newspaper...
...when she told us to do something different with our arms--such as "dislocate you shoulder! two! three! four!"--I would lose control over my legs and go crashing into the wall...
...ANONYMOUS was a woman," read one of the original slogans on the bathroom wall. After four years of a Harvard education, it would be easy to conclude such a thing; after four years as a reporter at The Harvard Crimson, it is also quite simple...
...resolved to do nothing less than recreate our history--or "herstory" as some of us called it. And we would do it all at once, immediately. The bathroom wall could not languish graffiti-less; its statements were the connections that we had with each other, the definition of our place here. The hard-fought place that was the source of so much alternating pride and insecurity on those walls...
...heroes is Rupert Murdoch) and the breezy, chipper Toronto Sun, whose owners flirted with investing in the St. Louis project. Ingersoll is borrowing blatantly from USA Today, to the extent of labeling the new paper's sections Money, Life and Sports. Pages of USA Today are taped on a wall next to a sign reading YOUR GUIDE TO EXCELLENCE. Despite the Sun's derivative quality, Ingersoll describes the paper as "my PM, in the sense that it's creative and no one else has had the gumption...