Word: placards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told the crowd that "it tore my heart apart" to learn that her father, a member of the jetliner's crew, was never coming home. In Washington, Tryggvi McDonald, 22, eldest son of Georgia Democratic Congressman Larry McDonald, who was on the doomed flight, addressed a placard-waving rally of 750 people in Lafayette Square and later tried to deliver a letter of protest in person at the Soviet embassy; an embassy employee threw it away. Koreans staged demonstrations, some joined by local residents, in cities as distant from their homeland as Buenos Aires. In Paris, a crowd...
...conceived by Producer Ahn Kuk Jong, 39, as the final two-hour episode in a project commemorating the Korean War. His purpose: to convey the hardships suffered by families pulled apart in the conflict. People were selected to appear on-camera for about 15 seconds at a time, carrying placards inscribed with their names, the names of the missing and a brief description of how they were separated. Announcers read the placards to viewers while the cameras zoomed in on the faces of the searchers. Fourteen telephone lines were open, awaiting inquiries from viewers who thought they were being sought...
...question the educational value of such politicking. I arrived with my appropriate placard and screamed my position while inside. Rahman and his supporters screamed theirs. Our individual identities were subsumed in our flags and titles, leaving no room for a common ground or the search for one. What we witnessed, instead was a debate of hatred. I would argue that we learn very little from such screaming, that we merely reinforce established prejudices. A university should be a place for the free and open exchange of ideas: it should be an environment in which we can voice our opinions freely...
...people from all parts of West Germany poured into the Beuel section of Bonn, across the Rhine from the windowless conference chamber where Reagan was attending a summit meeting of the NATO countries. A widely distributed leaflet for the rally was strongly anti-American and anti-NATO; one placard read HEIL, RONALD REAGAN. But the mood of the crowd was as much pacifist as anti-Reagan, and unexpectedly relaxed. Said retired Dutch General M.H. von Meyenfeldt, who addressed the rally: "There are an awful lot of people out there who are here for the sun." Many speakers referred to Reagan...
...argument goes like this: every movie is propaganda. Every character is a walking placard-for capitalism or idealism or monogamy or the status quo. Every shot, by its placement and rhythm and duration, is one more Pavlovian command to the viewer. A narrative movie is usually successful to the extent that it obscures these facts, transforms the thesis into entertainment and the placards into persuasive semblances of human beings...