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Carey vowed to rid the union of Mob influence. His most effective campaign poster showed three pigs with their snouts buried in a trough of dollar bills. It read, THEY'RE FEASTING ON YOUR DUES. Carey painted his opponents as part of "the Old Guard" that was controlled by mobsters. In his victory speech he reiterated his promise: "To those who think that the Mafia is in charge, the party's over." Carey's first order as union president was to cut the job's $225,000 annual salary...
...when Mork & Mindy went on the air. In addition to too much trivial sex, there was too much vodka and bourbon and way too much cocaine. "It was like symbiotic abuse. It was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Williams. The bloated fish," he calls his early-'80s self. "The Michelin poster child...
...posters encouraged students to call and complain. "Please tell these people how you feel about hate speech. Bigotry will not be tolerated," the poster read...
...third and final day of the ceremonial opening phase, enmity permeated the Hall of Columns of Madrid's Royal Palace. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir labeled Syria a tyrannical regime, and Syria's foreign minister waved a 1948 "wanted" poster of Shamir, accusing him of involvement in the assassination that year of a Swedish diplomat...
...mother complained to him, "You are a good Communist but a rotten husband!" Her father only nodded, saying he knew.) He is swept away by the Cultural Revolution. But not before one supreme act of courage. Asked to praise so-called good officials by writing an adulatory wall poster, Chang's father refused -- even with the threat of beatings from Maoist thugs. His wife pleaded, "What is a poster compared to a life?" He answered, "I will not sell my soul...