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Sat 05 May 2009Smile over substance
PRESENT TENSE:YOU’LL HAVE seen the election posters. On lamp posts, fences, walls, trees. Covering the side of buildings, growing in fields, smothering vans. You probably woke up this morning and found a couple of Mary Lou McDonald posters swinging from the headboard of your bed, writes SHANE HEGARTY
They have turned the street furniture into freakish totem poles. Grinning candidates, pictured slightly from the side, with head tilted and airbrushed. And then, for some of them, comes the coup de grâce:a slogan. And what do they come up with? Something as empty as their smiles.
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