Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found in Lascaux, France, could be considered a form of graffiti. But more importantly, Lascaux, like grafitti, was someone's attempt to leave their mark, and in the debate over the merits of grafitti, such a point seems more important than legalities. Additionally grafitti is also a sign of anger, resentment, and a sort of liberation in defying society's laws. The creation of graffiti is as much a political statement as a physical act. The works cannot be considered independent of their function as social protest. In the eyes of the critic, the fact that grafitti is ultimately grounded...
...Oppenheim's paper suggests that today's graffiti is a return to the purest form of artistic expression--sketches and scribbles on cave walls. Oppenheim's paper quotes a graffiti artist who claims that "the art on the streets are the real life galleries." The most basic expression of anger and pride may well come from the streets, but can the rest of us understand them? The paper also quotes ethnologist Robert Colombo as saying, "After reading kilometers of walls one realizes that, whatever its meaning, here is what it means to be human." Can we look past the broken...
...neighborhood caught in a crime wave, the anger toward the police commissioner apparent at the meeting is no surprise...
...just in case any one thought Washington might acquiesce in the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "Nawaz has been under tremendous political pressure ever since Pakistan was forced to withdraw from the Kargil region of Kashmir," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "There was a lot of anger in the military at being ordered to withdraw, and it?s all being directed at the prime minister. Even though the military has undertaken in recent years not to intervene in politics, it might seek to play a behind-the-scenes role in a change of leadership, even within Nawaz...
...compound on Wednesday, no one was willing to leave. Around us refugees became aware that we might be going. There was no question of taking them with us. "You are abandoning us again," one East Timorese friend said to me, as he hugged his family and cried. The anger and frustration became extreme. As journalists we decided that we wouldn't leave. "If we stay here, they will kill us, but if we leave, they will kill the refugees," said one of my colleagues. Among U.N. staff who had been working at the point of exhaustion, the sentiments were...