Word: graffiti
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...paranoid, so that when you get here, you are so numb from paranoia that you can be yourself. Have some jokes prepared--popular ones this year are likely to be, "Hey, did you hear Julius Caesar's in our class?" or, "Hey, I just saw a piece of graffiti saying `Napoleon Bonaparte '84.'" Don't bother memorizing your SAT score; just tell anyone rude enough to ask that you got straight 800s. That'll show...
Further on is the "Park," a summer hangout. It is two blocks wide and looks like a maximum-security recreation facility in a tough prison: sour, graffiti-covered concrete and steel mesh fencing. The two basketball courts are always jammed, and there are always a couple of broken syringes on the ground. On summer evenings it throbs and shakes as hundreds of teen-agers bop ecstatically to deafening Latin rock...
That was what no visitor to the Games could get used to-what the Soviets call poryadok, the discipline of law-and-order. No graffiti. The hiss of the spray gun is not heard in the land. And the military! During the Games, it was almost as if a vast box of soldiery had been tipped up and its contents deposited over the city. Often one saw them in odd places-militiamen standing in a clump of shrubbery or on the side of a hill, as if wherever they had landed they were obliged to stand up and assume their...
Very few recent films have been as successful as Rockers at integrating a collection of period music with worthwhile screen footage. American Graffiti did it for the 50s, Coming Home tried to do it for the 60s, and Saturday Night Fever is close as we dare come to a soundtrack for the 70s. Of these, Rockers most resembles American Graffiti, a film where the music weaves in and out of the story, and the story--what little there is--bobs and darts through the music...
...soft rock carved and polished by the glacier could easily be inscribed with personal data, and within no time there was a 300-ft.-long sweep of modern hieroglyphics. Last summer the first of the four-letter words appeared, to be followed by such a flood of pornographic graffiti that the better Boy Scout leaders struck Box Canyon off their lists of educational outings...