Word: posterize
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...Hollywood Boulevard, one gay led a fearsome white husky dog that wore a sign; NOT ALL OF us WALK POODLES. Another poster proclaimed: HOMOSEXUALS FOR REAGAN. Marching up Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, the phalanxes chanted: "Two-four-six-eight, gay is just as good as straight!" or "Ho-Ho-Homosexual!" With cause, the homosexuals were protesting police harassment, Mafia control of some gay bars and other injustices. Some sociologists reckon that the nation's homosexual population, open and secret, is about 4,000,000, and so the new aggressiveness has a large potential. One picket sign...
During the Harvard strike in April, 1969, it sold strike armbands (which people were making in the Yard and passing out free) for 25 cents apiece. As I write, the store is displaying personality posters of Mao Tse-tung, Eldridge Cleaver, and other movement figures. In each poster a cunning slit has been made, and Eldridge is wearing a flowing Krackerjack's cravat, while Mao sports a pair of blue granny glasses...
...pretense of art for man's sake, and bowed only to art for business' sake. But the Met's exhibit confidently denies the obvious. After reminding us, without the least touch of irony, that "Skyscrapers are acknowledged to be the most striking American innovation in architecture," the illuminated poster defends the style...
...Marcello when my father insisted I come to Geneva for his fifth marriage (dear Father, he will ever be the child). He tempted me with tales of a dazzling young American named Gregory. So off I went to Geneva, In Search of Gregory. Outside the airport I saw a poster of an exquisite autoball champion. He was Michael Sarrazin, that soulful boy in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, so I knew that he must be Gregory. My darling brother Daniel, who still refuses to leave the villa and who still adores me so suffocatingly, poor thing, told...
Never exactly famed for munificence, Salvador Dali has offered to give six of his paintings to the French National Railroads for poster art. It seems that Dali has always been a real (or surreal) railroad buff and regards his home station in the small city of Perpignan as something of a shrine...