Word: billboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young Cuba to the Barricades in the Fight against Neocolonialism and Oppression," proclaims a billboard on a highway east of Havana...
Perhaps encouraged by a smiling Anita Bryant on the billboard above, the golfers' wives re-boarded the bus with bags of real oranges to eat and sourvenir plastic oranges to keep, while Redhead June fidgetted, bumping her knees to the Rolling Stones' "Bitch" that blared from my cassette deck...
...that you don't really need. It's something we fight all the time." For Harrah, a quiet ex-Californian who owns 84% of the company's stock, fussing over minutiae is a hard habit to break after 40 years. Recently he ordered a hotel restaurant billboard repainted after noticing that the rack-of-lamb dinner on it "looked raw." At 66, though, Harrah has begun delegating more decision making to subordinates. A close friend of many show-business celebrities, he still helps set entertainment policy at the company's two theater-restaurants. Acts containing excessive...
...energetic and varied kind of music that has emerged in recent months from some of the young American bands. The Ramones stick close to basic rock 'n' roll, but they get better all the time. Last week their latest single Sheena is a Punk Rocker made the Billboard Hot 100 chart-the first New Wave song to achieve that eminence...
...giant new wrinkle in billboard advertising? An acid-age hex sign? No indeed. The Bunyanesque bovine is part of a statewide barn-painting project, Dairyland Graphics, dreamed up by the Wisconsin Arts Board under a $32,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Its purpose: to bring art to the countryside-and also bring forth the creative talents of local teenagers. "We wanted to give rural children a chance to use their imaginations," says Arts Board Executive Director Jerrold Rouby, "the same way urban mural programs have got ghetto kids involved in art." In two years some...