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...weekends he heads for his bachelor pad in Greenwich Village-a one-bedroom apartment near Washington Square Park. The walls are decorated with Japanese prints, a "Koch for Congress" poster and a David Levine caricature of Hizzoner. Koch has had the rent-controlled apartment since the earlier '60s and now pays only $257 a month, a steal by any New York standards...
...unfurl a 20-foot banner with a picture of a fetus and the legend "abortion is murder." The "pro-choice" campaigners in the area decided they didn't "have to stand still for that kind of shit," as one explained. So they jumped in front of the baby poster, blocking the view with their banners, which featured a picture of the Statue of Liberty. The battle continued for the entire 20 minutes the abortion vote took; finally, inevitably, the dead baby backers began to push and shove, and pretty soon pro-choice and pro-life were hammering away at each...
...inner diabolism." "The essential American soul," Lawrence said extravagantly, "is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." In 19th century portrayals, Uncle Sam has a certain look in his eye that had disappeared by the time of the famous World War I I WANT YOU recruiting poster. The look is conniving, raw and whip-mean, the squint-shrewd eye of a man with a rope who is about a week's ride from the nearest law court...
Outside the Baltimore Convention Center, a picket's placard proclaimed: PRESIDENT CARTER, SEX DEVIATES AREN'T GOING TO TEACH MY KIDS. Read another poster: WHY ARE JIMMY AND ROSALYNN SPONSORING THIS ATTACK ON GOD'S PLAN? Scarcely seeming to notice the hubbub, and smiling as usual, the President entered the hall and urged the 671 delegates attending his White House conference to be the "catalyst for a new awareness in government of the importance of families and the needs of families...
...Vedanat Society, which entered the U.S. at the time of the 1893 World Parliament of Religion in Chicago, the Theosophical Society has a broader age range than most similar groups and encourages members to remain in their own religion. The society's three objectives, displayed for all on a poster hung in the Quest bookstore downstairs, are to "form a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity... to encourage the study of comparative religions, philosophy and science, and to investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent...