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...lines. The amendments added since the Bill of Rights have actually done little to alter the document's intrinsic meaning, though they took such dramatic steps as abolishing slavery, expanding the right to vote and permitting a federal income tax. A few of the additions even seem gratuitous, like graffiti on a public monument -- Prohibition and the amendment to be rid of it -- and the urge rises to go at them with a sponge...
...process, its power as a trend-setter is always overestimated. The 1985 Biennial was laden with East Village, post-graffiti kitsch by Kenny Scharf and others -- gaudy ephemerids who, instead of going on to further heights of success as a result of their inclusion, have shriveled in the hot wind of fashion that blew them into the Whitney in the first place. Undoubtedly, 1985 marked the nadir of the Biennial's reputation; it was the worst in memory...
...scene at Detroit's sprawling, gritty Redford High School seemed like a % real-life replay of Blackboard Jungle. Throngs of students, some armed with knives, roamed the graffiti-covered halls, smoking marijuana, playing touch football and frequently fighting. Only about half the mostly black student body of 2,800 showed up for classes on any given day. The school's administrators had lost control. No wonder a monitoring commission set up by a federal court described Redford as the worst high school in Detroit...
Often, the graffiti artists will stop complaining about their lack of companionship long enough to speculate on whom they would most enjoy as a companion. In the Quincy House Qube, an ongoing battle is raging to pick the prettiest girl in Quincy...
...course, men are not the only ones who enjoy rating members of the opposite gender through the safe anonymity of graffiti. In Dunster House, the women have turned the tables on the men. A door in the women's restroom bears a list of nearly 50 names of former and current Dunster males, under the heading "Best Looking Dunster Men (random order). Vote early! Vote often! Use any criteria you like...