Word: signboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signboard assault made clear that Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher intends to make much of Britain's unemployment rate, now at 5.6% and rising. The Tories are heavily banking on polls showing that Britons, for the first time in a decade, appear to be more worried about joblessness than inflation. To be sure, the Conservatives will also hit hard on the theme that consumer prices have doubled after four years of Labor government. Meanwhile, the prim Mrs. Thatcher will keep up the brisk ideological tone she has given to Conservative policy since she took over as leader in 1975. Says...
...camera has carefully chosen all of these things, and each choice signals its totals authority as clearly as the optician's signboard--a pair of neon glasses--that once appears behind the couple. All that is, is what it sees: without the camera's grace we are as blind as the lady with second slight, and in the country of the blind the one big eye is king...
...painfully rejected his previous efforts at salvation, it develops that this second attempt is actually a form of punishment for their earlier transgressions. Heavy stuff, and never more ludicrously so than when he forces them to literally paint their town red while he renames it on the welcoming signboard−HELL, of course...