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...that punctuate the magnificent romp of tracks like Do the Strand. Many British fans never forgave Eno when he split from Roxy Music after just two albums and headed off into musical outer space. But in New York City they came to adore him - eno is god read the graffiti in the late '70s - as he set about reinventing the studio as an instrument for making music rather than a place for capturing it. That, for better and worse, is how much of today's music gets made. Then, with a series of albums such as Music for Airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light Years Into The Future | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...only does she look at the fashionable speech of 19th century England, when “flare up” was all the rage, she goes back to the king of pop, William Shakespeare, and even to ancient Pompeii, where volcanic ash preserved graffiti on the walls of the public baths...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like, Oh My God, What Are We Saying? | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carrying On the Fight in Oaxaca | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...call attention to Mexico's sharp and growing social divide between haves and have-nots. (Mexico has a dozen billionaires, but about half of its population lives in poverty.) By summer's end, after almost 10 people had been killed, Oaxaca's celebrated colonial downtown was a graffiti-smeared grid of smoldering barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Fox Gambles on a Crackdown | 10/28/2006 | See Source »

...August, just before students began to arrive on campus, an unusual piece of graffiti appeared on Cowperwaithe Street. Months before, a series of murals had been painted on the construction panels near Mather and Dunster Houses. One panel—designed by Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, who is also a Crimson Arts executive—featured four images of Mather House painted in psychedelic colors, in the style of Andy Warhol. Someone decided to paint a message across this panel. It read: “That’s Right Kids, Andy Warhol...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Public Enemies | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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