Word: graffitiing
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...place where the rules nominally apply, but only nominally. The problem is more than the breakdown of law. It is the breakdown of order. "The absolute amount of serious subway crime is small--38 reported felonies per day," editorializes the New York Times. "The larger problem" is "graffiti, vandalism, harassing passengers for handouts. The pervasiveness of that mischief generates fear that a system millions must ride has slipped out of control." The subway has become a place where 14,000 felonies per year are the lesser problem. People are upset...
...twain shall meet. But the poet's point is a poor comic premise. Though Best Defense provides both stars a few funny moments and offers some promising satirical ideas, its binary construction imposes a fatal jumpiness on it. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote American Graffiti and Indiana Jones, have proved they can do better. Huyck, the director here, will have to prove on some other occasion that he has a gift for being funny on film as well as on the page...
...some loose thematic strands. The ostensible subject for 1984 is "Art and the Arts"-painting, sculpture and their connections to other media, to their own history, to architecture, and so on. Almost anything can be gathered under such an umbrella, and nearly everything has been, from plaster Apollos to graffiti, from marble to flickering television sets. The prevailing tone is of fatigue and mannerism. Everyone complains that the Biennale, like art itself, is in decline; such complaints are a necessary part of the ritual of visiting it. But this year in particular the visitor feels like a tourist...
...spokesman for the film makers' corporation, Luke Spielberger Ltd., said that the attractions will include a Poltergeist funhouse, a scuba dive through shark-infested waters, an American Graffiti drag strip, a Millennium Falcon journey through the Twilight Zone, an E. T. flying-bike ride and an Indiana Jones snake pit. The restaurants, or cantinas, will feature gremlins serving popcorn and candy bars. Each afternoon the Ewoks Marching Band will parade through the park playing the works of John Williams...
...entrepreneurial act. One pitchman recounts a conquest he made by sitting, silent and motionless, for 22 minutes in his customers' kitchen. Another salesman flimflams his client with a hilarious spiel about life, existentialism and the pleasure principle; the monologue has all the narrative logic of Dadaist graffiti, but it whets the appetite, clinches the sale, sets the sucker up for the kill...