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University police arrived at the band's Freshman Union headquarters at approximately 2:30 a.m. Monday and found the room damaged. There was "orange smoke" from a flare that had been exploded, broken glass on the floor, and graffiti on the walls, Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse said...
...communities that have been most innovative is La Mirada, Calif. (pop. 41,000), in Los Angeles County. City officials have hired private firms to run the parks and recreation department, perform public-works inspections, provide day-care services and remove graffiti from public buildings. Mass transit in the form of comfortable vans is supplied by a company called Dial-A-Ride. Says La Mirada City Manager Gary Sloan: "In some areas, privatization has been the most efficient, cost-effective way of providing service...
...light whatever shows under the BQE, where the shush of cars grows louder with the rush hour, people passing over Sunset Park on their way home to other places. Tony and Ingrid live just east of Third, across from a car wash whose walls are covered with curlicues of graffiti. At this hour, Tony is on the job at the metal plant, and Ingrid has the two girls home from school...
...painting at the age of 30, in 1966. There is also a powerful group of sculptures by Beuys. But the artists who get the most play are those industrial-scale bores of the international art market, Baselitz, with his upside-down figures, and A.R. Penck, with his dull pseudoprimitive graffiti, along with such earnest but relatively plodding talents as K.H. Hodicke and Markus Lupertz...
...keep surfaces clean, the writing consistently reappears on carrel walls and bathroom stalls. The wooden desks in Lamont are scored with gouges, although the ink has been washed away. One such etching offered the following message, a testimony to the inevitable end of even the most lovingly inscribed graffiti...