Word: graffitied
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...sign for the skit "Sexism in the Schools," in which the "x" in "sexism" was represented by a swastika, it was an insult to thoughtful social analysis. The left makes far too much use of such facile, irrelevant references to fascism. Turning x's into swastikas may make good graffiti, but it's lousy politics...
...American Graffiti Syndrome. Just as we resurrect the era of the most unflattering clothes and hairstyles, we discover new direction in the old music. But like the song in "Oh What a Lovely War"--"Old soldiers never die, the young ones wish they would"--you may sometimes begin to wish that America had not developed such a belated guilt complex about not taking jazz music seriously enough...
...develops what it wit nessed, like a Polaroid photo. They also suggest sideshow tents - bright, tacky signs advertising freaks and marvels. As the British Empire's cartographers once colored half the world red, Ferrer is busy coloring it Puerto Rican, smeared with acid-drop colors, scrawled with looping graffiti. There are few artists of this energy at work today...
...York City, off-duty police have scuffled with uniformed officers in vitriolic demonstrations over working conditions. In Detroit, bitter police officers insolently nicknamed their balding chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file...
...Soule's design seminar has constructed a fantastic set, full of faded storefronts and sagging clotheslines. The graffiti ("Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day") seems an unnecessary intrusion. Unfortunately the set, with its scaffolds and dangling ropes, is never fully explored. John Magoun's lighting is downright incompetent; areas go dark and light quite abruptly for no discernible reason. Anne Higonnet's costumes help establish an endearingly seedy atmosphere, although Scapino himself should show a bit more panache and the two ingenues should, to be blunt, show a bit more skin...