Word: graffiti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slogan writers no longer have to lurk in subway W.C.'s to display their anonymous talent. Now they can show their genius by entering the "Instant Graffiti" contest...
...person who can write the most creative graffiti before midnight next Thursday will win $25 cash from the Shintron Company, Inc., which manufactures medical equipment and television parts...
...rate of 300,000 a month. The first Laugh-In record album has sold 125,000 copies in three weeks. A rather third-rate Laugh-In comic strip is running in 60 newspapers. Soon there will be Laugh-In jogging outfits, Laugh-In water pistols, Laugh-In graffiti wallpaper and Laugh-In fortune cookies...
...last the music of the Rolling Stones has been enshrined where some of their less charitable listeners have always felt it belonged: on a lavatory wall. The cover of the Stones' latest-and as yet unreleased-album is a photo of a graffiti-covered wall above an unpleasant-looking toilet. The name "The Rolling Stones" appears plainly, as do the title of the album, Beggars' Banquet, and the names of the tunes it contains. Scrawled in smaller letters are sly references by the Stones to themselves and their friends, as well as such phrases as "God rolls...
...back to the raw vitality of Negro rhythm-and-blues and the authentic simplicity of country music. This is home ground for the Stones and, among white groups, they are all but unbeatable on it. But the album still will not please listeners who lack a taste for musical graffiti. How could it, with songs like the slow, bluesy Stray Cat, addressed to a 15-year-old girl ("Bet your mama don't know you can bite like that")? Or the driving, syncopated Street Fighting Man ("Comes summer here and the time is right for fighting in the street...