Word: posterize
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...called upon every one to be self reliant to contribute his own practical experience toward problem solving and decision making to found theory upon practice, and to achieve what would normally be considered impossible. He alerted the people to the dangers of a growing bureaucracy. His famous big-character poster. "Bombard the Head Quarteriers," urged the youth to bombard with their criticisms even "the top Party persons in authority taking the capitalist road." This meant, first of all, Liu Shao...
...little rear end. It's almost dishonest competition." Similarly sympathetic was Actress Catherine Deneuve, who allowed that she was "weary of naked women. Let's have some nude men, s'il vous plait." Among those outraged by the spectacle was Henri Larivière, a professional poster plasterer. In a rearguard action, as it were, he partially covered some of the posters with white rectangular patches that the French television network uses as a warning against material that is "not for minors...
Judge: Your poster was indecent...
...beach at St. Tropez is not shocking or indecent in 1972. But she would be even today in front of Notre Dame cathedral." After taking two weeks to consider his verdict, Judge Taillandier last week had the tail-end word. He fined Polnareff $12,000 ($2 a poster), his record company, which had paid for the posters, $12,000, and his pressagent, who had conceived the stunt, $6,000. All together it was a $30,000 kick...
...kind of army recruiting poster turned on its head. Galy Gay (Mace Rosenstein), a man who just can't say no to anything, leaves his hut to buy a fish and gets sidetracked for life. He runs into a trio of British privates, who act like manic Boy Scouts with switchblades hidden in their pockets (in fact, a butter knife serves). They develop great career plans for him when a buddy of theirs disappears during a group burglary. Galy's not much of a soldier, but what's the difference, one man's like the next and all are adaptable...