Word: graffitied
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...only $42 to $72. Early one morning, the families were moved into an inexpensive nearby hotel. At 10 a.m., the whistle blew and 60 wreckers rushed into the building, began the job of stripping down the interior. Painters raced about slapping on fresh coats of color over the scratched, graffiti-scarred hallways. Laborers hurried to load heaps of rubble into waiting dump trucks. Their progress was relayed by three closed-circuit TVs to neighbors, reporters and eagle-eyed straw bosses watching street-level monitors...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was one of the hottest burlesque shows that ever hit Broadway. It had a grossly libidinous libretto snippeted out of the plays of Plautus, and lickerish leerics that read like Pompeian graffiti. Above all, it had a huge round Zero named Mostel, who wore a fingertip tunic the size of a pup tent and went tippety-skipping about the stage like a bull walrus in drag...
...also self-indulgent ("Some of the best prose in America is graffiti found on men's-room walls"), it is probably because, as he says, "I feel the truth of the thing first and discover the explanations later." Such candor is hard to ignore...
...refuses to supply a dictionary for his thickly poetical paintings, which went on view last week in Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery. At a quick glance, they seem like wall scribblings, or graffiti, which suggest the vocabulary of dreams. A tryptich entitled High Plateau of Uncertainty is complete with contours numbered to indicate altitudes...
...Rinehart & Winston. $4.95. "God damn it," says Eliot Rosewater, custodian of what was once the 14th largest fortune in the U.S. ($87,472,033.61), "you've got to be kind." He is that almost archetypical American figure, the do-gooding sad millionaire, and he embellishes restrooms with melancholy graffiti: "If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable." His heart smolders with love for the unlovable-volunteer fire men, science-fiction writers, the entire population of Rosewater County, Ind., his ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money and all of himself. Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten...