Word: posterize
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Violations of this rule have been rampant over the past few weeks, as online booksellers poster on campus and hire students to distribute information in front of the Science Center...
Fidel Castro and Miami politicians are already using six-year-old Elian Gonzalez as a poster boy. Now Madison Avenue wants a piece of the photogenic tyke. As long as Elian is a guest in capitalist America - pending a U.S. court decision on his fate - companies like the popular web-search firm AltaVista want to cast him in commercials. An advertising firm based in Portland, Ore., Wieden & Kennedy, which produces AltaVista's ads, tells TIME it is making a pitch to Elian's Miami family about using the boy's image in a national spot...
...25th floor, we come face to face with a huge poster of the three beautiful ones as we step off the elevator - Cindy (Crawford), Rebecca (Romijn-Stamos), Daisy (Fuentes) - playfully popping the corks off a bottle of champagne. I wonder if Rebecca is that leggy in person. I look at Soman, he looks at me, we both know we've managed to enter an alternate universe. Welcome to their world. And we know there's no going back. We ask the secretary to buzz our contact...
...They'll walk into my room and see the poster," Porter said. "And then they'll ask, what do you think of this...
...under the pseudonym M.J. Rose. Then she began offering a printed version. Lip Service sold 1,500 copies online, and was picked up by the Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild. It went on to sell more than 12,000 hard copies by September, and Shapiro became the poster girl for a new phenomenon--e-publishing as a cottage industry...