Word: graffiti
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...Graffiti, ranging from phone numbers to drawings, frequently decorate the tunnel walls which intrepid students have left on the walls to mark their descents into the unknown. The obscene drawings and interesting slogans beneath New Quincy House, for instance, have won renown among Harvard tunnel runners. A recent addition--"Quincy House 'Comics' Class of '87"--has been scribbled across one of the walls. And "Nuke New Quincy" appears nearby...
...worked with her praise her cooperativeness, her friendly manner and her ability to end a stalemate. "She's made a considerable difference in relations," says Gladys P. Gifford, an activist in the Harvard Square Defense Fund, a citizens' group which monitors all Harvard Square issues from the police to graffiti. "She listens to the community point of view. She understands that there is one. And this brings about resolutions on issues that used to be big battles...
...sector of the red-tiled capital of Tegucigalpa, the walls are scarred with angry slogans. DEATH TO COMMUNISM, the bloodred graffiti say. OUT, SOVIET TRASH! On the other side of the city, not far from the main drag of pizza parlors and Dunkin' Donuts outlets, where Madonna's hit Papa Don't Preach squeals from every radio, the signs say, AMERICAN MURDERERS OUT and OUT, YANKEE TRASH! Somewhere in the middle, there are a few quieter and more plaintive messages: PEACE...
...graffiti war in Honduras is at once a parody and a paradigm of the larger phantom war that is haunting the country within its borders and without. Ever since 1982, when the U.S.-backed contra rebels set up bases in Honduras for their efforts to bring down the Nicaraguan government, the country has found itself in a curious kind of limbo: not at war, but hardly at peace, caught in the line of a fire that it is unwilling and largely powerless to join. Now, with Washington about to send $100 million in aid to the contras, the reluctant hosts...
...dirt-bike movie that played only seedy drive-ins, EO would be notable for the conglomerate of megabuck talent that confected it. The executive producer is George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars trilogy. The director is Francis Ford Coppola, once Lucas' mentor as executive producer of American Graffiti, now switching roles with his former acolyte. The star is Michael Jackson, the pop- music thriller who composed and performs the film's two songs...