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...Degas, who in 1893 took a hard look at his work and pronounced, "Well, Lautrec, you're clearly one of us." Practically the only area of art he never worked in was sculpture; in the rest, he crossed boundaries with elegance and fluency, turning himself into the most inventive poster artist of his age in images that seem to bridge the epigrammatic world of the Japanese wood block and the declamatory, populist one of emerging mass media...
When French master chef Paul Bocuse discovered his picture on a poster advertising McDonald's, he was not amused. It's not that France's best-known chef is completely intolerant of fast food. But he does object to an ad showing a colleague dreaming of a Big Mac while Bocuse scrutinizes chickens from the renowned Bresse region of France. So he's demanding $2.7 million in damages from the Golden Arches...
...politicians are speaking in code. Codes have long been a part of the etiquette of political discourse: "welfare" for African Americans, "fairness" for tax the rich, "family values" for oat-based cereals and heterosexuality. When those on the political right first test-ran middle class as a conservative poster child, all they really seemed to mean by it was "normal," a code for white and not poor -- anyone else being a member of the supposedly profligate underclass that was dragging our nation down. Even when uttered by Democrats, middle class often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying...
Other promotional activities in the past included the poster listing service providing food and shelter. The poster repackaged publicly known information about human services in Cambridge...
...only new thing was the Harvard name at the bottom so as to the advertise the administration's concern for social issues. The 1400 copies of the poster cost $3000 last year. The project was discontinued for lack of the response this year...