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...York City subway riders have long complained about the worn, graffiti-plastered cars that frequently break down and often lack air conditioning or even overhead lights. So it was good news earlier this year when the city decided to buy 825 gleaming new cars and retire many of the worst clunkers in the system...
...haven" concept was pioneered in 1980 by the Sixth Street People's Park in the South of Market section of San Francisco, but Wino Park, as it is locally known, is hardly a community asset. Skid Row Park is-or at least promises to be. Graffiti on a wall and sprawling drunks are never a pleasant sight. But despite them, youngsters in Skid Row Park use the basketball court, and smaller children play in the sandbox. Most of the neighborhood-illegal Mexican immigrants, destitute transients, the elderly and other community residents-seem to take equal pride in the place...
Pieces gathers fugitive articles written over the course of some ten years: fragments on subjects as diverse as Viet Nam, sex, television, Henry Miller and subway graffiti. Occasionally the old pro jabs with acute social observations and feints with malicious wit. He divides his examination of television into channels instead of chapters; he provides a graceful reappraisal of Novelist-Translator Jean Malaquais, who disliked The Naked and the Dead, but of whom Mailer acknowledges: "I had learned as much about writing from [him] as from anyone alive...
...Faith of Graffiti," the author defends the space invaders from Krylon: "They had written masterpieces in letters six feet high . . . We are back to the cave man and his cave painting." To Mailer, the spray-can artists are brilliantly writing "I am." It never seems to have occurred to him that what is also being inscribed is "You aren't." Urban scrawl does not merely decorate, it also defaces: maps, buildings, trees, monuments. In this vandalized epoch, graffiti can be avoided only by the wealthy, and celebrated only by those who bombinate about the "rapt intent seething...
Muslim fanatics knocked its nose off, Greeks scrawled graffiti on its paws and Mamluk soldiers used its face as a rifle target. But the saddest indignity suffered over the centuries by Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza has stemmed from erosion, seemingly caused by a single enemy-the relentless desert wind. At the present rate of decay, experts say, the 64-foot-high figure could be reduced to a mound of dust in five to ten centuries...