Word: graffiti
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When Pop Artist Andy Warhol copied the Campbell soup can and made commercial art respectable, he set off an explosion in the poster world. Among the first to get the message were the commercial artists who had developed their basic skills in the wars of advertising. Their four-color graffiti are now being enshrined in the museums and tacked up on student and highbrow walls (see color opposite...
...Street and Compton Avenue, ground zero in 1965, could be Anywhere U.S.A. The sprawling Watts Health Center dominates one corner and a new post office the other. Across the street is a shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little crime in the nine-month-old shopping center, and the reasons why tell a great deal about Watts: 17 security guards are on the payroll, and iron en trance gates, controlled from a rooftop command post, can be closed within seconds to keep prowlers out at night...
...graffiti on Weeks Footbridge came off easily with soap and water. But the transcript—and all its baggage—was indelible...
...after eight o’clock in the morning on Tuesday, the most beautiful day of the year. Down below, a handful of rowers were gliding along the water as it glimmered in the sun. And on the Weeks Footbridge, a Harvard maintenance worker was busy scrubbing away a graffiti message someone had written there in black ink: “Fuck Summers...
Bambi also parks her car in that lot, along with Shamrock’s booking agents, strippers, and drivers. Nearby, a graffiti-filled alleyway leads to a door and steep, carpeted stairs; when she gets to the top, Bambi faces a yellow-lit hallway and a frosted glass door...