Word: graffiti
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...kitchen, blackened by smoke, a cracked plastic plate with an "Alliance for Progress" logo lies on a shelf among mouse droppings and rotting grains of rice. On the wall of a nearby building, huge white letters shout: DEATH TO RED PRIESTS. On other walls are the red and white graffiti of the guerrillas...
...sullen calm seems to hang over Gdansk. But beneath the surface, a dangerous and defiant mood can be seen in underground leaflets, posters and graffiti. Said one message chalked on a metal door in the port of Gdynia, near Gdansk: THE WINTER IS YOURS- THE SPRING WILL BE OURS. Seeking to dampen Gdansk's rebellious spirit, authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs...
...insure the safety of the playground floor that she designed with David Juddleson for the Hurely St. playground. "We asked four neighborhood kids to help us build the floor, and then we included them in the design, first by depicting them roller skating and then allowing them to write graffiti around their picture." Koplow explains. The ornately decorated piece has remained intact...
...graffiti had stayed at that innocent level, there would be no need for Mr. Shuttleworth. No Gobbler would have been welcome in the days when Kilroy was here. But Kilroy is not here any more and his, in any case, was a benevolent omnipresence. Not so with his successors: TURP, BOOB, HURK, DZ3, SONY, JUNIOR Y, SODA 1, whose names-if they are names-twist and bubble on the flat surfaces of our lives like virulent bacteria. No place in the country is safe, but New York City is actually under siege, its walls tottering under the cumulative weight...
...premise of such heady deliberations is that graffiti is art-a premise supported over the past decade by several people with brains. In 1973 Twyla Tharp introduced the ballet Deuce Coupe, which used the doubly delightful background of music by the Beach Boys and six graffitists shooting spray cans at panels...