Word: graffiti
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...perk up for so-fine evocations of Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Janis Joplin. The '60s and some of its prime shakers are dead, but the decade's survivors figure they can revive it by repackaging it. Beehive is a cherry Coke cabaret show with plenty of fizz, American Graffiti without the plot, Dreamgirls with no production values, an oldies station at $27.50 a ticket...
...most evocative residue from those days are hundreds of graffiti scrawled on walls with pencils, knives and chalk in dozens of languages. As the restorers heated the building to bake out years of sea moisture, paint flaked off, revealing these immigrant artifacts. One Chinese graffito penciled on a bathroom wall is raw, wonderful poetry: "Thinking of home brings tears. I don't know what day we can be freed from our worries. Fathers, brothers, wives, children have scattered. Lucky just to arrive in the Flowery Flag country. I expected peace with no worries...
...society that produces the stuff, they don't feel so bad about indulging in its exports." But even then, apolitical American targets are not always off limits. After the U.S. bombing of Libya in April, a mob in Barcelona stoned a local McDonald's. Last year Peruvian Marxists sprayed graffiti and burned tables at three of Lima's five Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants...
...Everly Brothers, Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, but the band's worldwide influence was greater than any of their antecedents. Today American pop-culture imagery is being recycled more obliquely by Italy's Memphis group of furniture designers and by French painters mimicking the East Village fashion for graffiti...
Some base houses serve as modern-day opium dens, where addicts not only purchase crack but rent pipes, hang out and get wasted. Most of these establishments are run-down and filthy, littered with ragged furniture, trash and graffiti. Rockheads will sometimes stay for days, spending whatever cash they have, so wired from hit after hit that they have no need for food or sleep. Women who run out of money sometimes turn into "cocaine whores," selling themselves to anyone who will provide more crack...