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...slower than San Francisco to clean up. The 1 1/4-mile section of I-880 that collapsed, killing 42 people at the height of the evening rush hour, is long gone. But all over the city hundreds of small businesses remain boarded up, their plywood storefronts covered with layers of graffiti. Half a dozen residential hotels and more than 1,000 low-income rental units were lost in the quake, creating a severe shortage of affordable housing...
...Graffiti, ads and comic strips come to MOMA...
There have been two lines of attack. The first: by putting "low" culture -- graffiti, mass print, caricature, comic strips and so forth -- in the museum along with "high," MOMA, under the new curatorial leadership of Kirk Varnedoe, has abandoned its sacred mission of cultural discrimination. The second, and more hip, version: MOMA is too hidebound and elitist an institution to deal with popular culture, or with the recent "high" culture of the '80s, at all. As the clippings pile up, one may expect to see many variations on these themes. One, common to both, is that the show...
...scene was set for Stith's comments by a 30-foot-wide "graffiti wall," plastered with brown paper sheets on which students had made anonymous comments about race relations at Harvard...
Professor Brown may be late in his dating. In 1936, I saw the following graffiti on the men's room wall of a Provincetown restaurant: "I am the gayest boy (homosexual) in N.Y.C." Here was someone identifying himself as a "gay" 54 years ago. The magnitude of the boast amused me. I already knew what the anonymous writer meant by "gay," but his pedantic use of the parenthesis suggests that he was not sure everyone did--even in Provincetown...