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...person could roll through the gallery and, within minutes, gather up the 18 or 19 most prized paintings, then slip them into designated slots. Inside the container was a tool chest with devices for removing the paintings from the walls swiftly, as well as flashlights and a waterproof signboard showing the location of each picture. When the lid was closed, the container would be sealed with gaskets. Bags of chemicals inside would stabilize the humidity, which was to be constantly monitored by external and internal devices. Once at Mount Weather, the container was to remain sealed until the danger...
Moynahan, who says he will defend himself from trespassing charges in court today, has spent the two weeks since the incident in front of the cafe with a signboard reading, "Harvard Brutalizes 69-Year Old Poet...
...Herblock suspects that some cartoonists make Mondale "lumpier" than he is, to suggest stolidity. As MacNelly sees him, "He's very formal, hair in place. Nothing flamboyant. I'm struck by two things, his dullness and a kind of whining." After San Francisco, Mac-Nelly drew a signboard reading GATEWAY TO THE MINNESOTA WHINE COUNTRY...
...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...