Word: posterize
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...police patrolled the border between the Eastern and Western sectors. On the big day, the Communist youngsters were awakened by buglers before dawn. By 7 they had begun to march down Unter den Linden toward the Lustgarten. The route of march was plastered with flags and big propaganda posters, depicting the standard Russian heroes (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special Squads" of the People's Police, deeply tanned, obviously well trained...
...current offering at the Pilgrim goes a long way towards disproving the movie industry's latest promotion poster (to wit: Movies Are Better Than Ever). Rupert is, of all things, a squirrel; the picture is the latest vehicle for Jimmy Durante...
Only official vehicles could use the road. There were the State Police motorcycles, the Newton Police loudspeaker cars, and one car with oranges. ("Eat Babijuice oranges, All the Marathon runners use Babijuice oranges," the car's poster told...
...known around the Eastern system-flew 200,000 miles during his first year as president. He not only poked his nose into every airplane, every ticket office, every hangar and every repair shop, but, in time, left an embodiment of himself in all of them through a series of posters. These bear a picture of him, the words "Captain Eddie Says:"-and various Rickenbacker-ish homilies on the value of thrift, safety and patriotism. Some of his employees refer to the poster picture as Big Brother-but they all respect...
...architecturally constructed picture. He captured, then dramatically heightened, the hot, wet, rosy light enveloping the scene. The blimp, when he saw it, carried a Goodyear sign; he substituted Socony's flying red horse "because I thought it was a nicer shape." The baby's head in the poster he enlarged considerably, and embellished with sinister rips. By its size and its leaden slumber, the baby dominated the picture; he might have been dreaming it all, and he might have represented Koerner himself...